Spotify outs its listeners' embarrassing habits with billboards

Spotify knows all about your guilty pleasures
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Patrick Kulp
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Your guilty pleasures and weird obsessions have apparently not escaped the notice of Spotify's number crunchers.

The streaming service is singling out some of its customers' quirkier habits in a new billboard campaign that hit the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany this week.

Among the company's revelations: A repentant lover who played the song "Sorry" 42 times on Valentine's Day, a Hamilton stan who racked up thousands of soundtrack listens in New York's theater district, some monster of a person who started listening to holiday music in June and thousands of dark-humored Brits who streamed "It's the End of the World as We Know It" the day after the Brexit vote.


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"Thanks, 2016. It's been weird," reads the apt overarching tagline.

The campaign, which was developed by the company's in-house marketing team, marks Spotify's biggest global advertising effort to date.

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Patrick Kulp

Patrick Kulp is a Business Reporter at Mashable. Patrick covers digital advertising, online retail and the future of work. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science and economics, he previously worked at the Pacific Coast Business Times.

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