🎧 Micro-communities, Spotify music videos, and anti-marketing

Open Tabs · Jul 24, 2026 · 24m · transcript

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Today’s topics: the new social media app that promises no algorithm and no ads, Spotify’s move into music videos, and charli xcx’s “anti-marketing’ prediction and what it says about super fan culture.

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📵 0:00 - A new app called Yope has raised $20 million on a promise of no ads and no algorithms, built around “micro-communities” [think family and friend…