Delivering Music and Spoken Word at One of the World’s Largest Tech Companies
summary
Amazon Music is running Audible inside the app, launched Amazon Music Delivered at the end of 2024 to produce year-in-review recaps using cleaned data pipelines and profile separation for kids, and rolled out Maestro (GenAI playlist beta April 2024) for personalized playlists. A surprise: Benson Boone releases a track live at an all‑hands that becomes the #2 downloaded song, and Anarude tops 2023 streaming. Internally they ship Party Rock and a Slack-to-value‑stream stackflow mapper, plus a leaderboard showing 92% adoption for some teams — code‑review GenAI speeds approvals within a week.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00From DJ to Amazon Music director
- 3:59What Amazon Music is
- 7:02Audio experience and Audible
- 9:51Amazon Music delivery and data
- 12:01AI playlist generator Maestro
- 13:30Measuring AI adoption
- 15:41AI in code reviews
- 17:26Party Rock for leaders
- 20:12Value stream mapping with AI
- 21:36Lead with AI and feedback
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