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streambait

streambait noun: streaming content, especially music, primarily created for the sake of optimizing user engagement.

Noun

streambait (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, uncommon) Streaming content, especially music, primarily created for the sake of optimizing user engagement.
    • The rise of short-form video as a vessel for music discovery brought the logic of streambait to a new extreme. It was no longer about grabbing the listener in the first thirty seconds, but the first three-to-five seconds.2025, Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN

Origin of streambait

From stream + -bait. Modeled on clickbait.

Questions about streambait

What does streambait mean?
Streambait means streaming content, especially music, primarily created for the sake of optimizing user engagement.
What part of speech is streambait?
Streambait is a noun.

Words near streambait in the dictionary

  1. stream wheel
  2. stream wheels
  3. stream-work
  4. stream-works
  5. streamable
  6. streambait
  7. streambank
  8. streambanks
  9. streambed
  10. streambeds
  11. streamcipher

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