How do you find good comedy on Spotify?
There’s quite a bit in there, but it tends to be lodged at the bottom of the Spotify toybox under a mass of jazz, rock and R&B. So it’s probably about time the first comedy app turned up on the music streaming platform.
Official Comedy works on the principle that you’re more likely to search out comedy on a certain theme, rather than flick through an alphabetised list of acts. That means you can listen to playlists on themes such as comics dealing with hecklers, TV shows, politics, drink and drugs. And if you find someone you like, you can of course click the name and disappear off down that particular rabbit hole at your leisure.
The app has been released by Bedrocket Media Ventures, which has hauled in more than 175,000 subscribers on its Official Comedy YouTube channel. In fact, as Stuart Dredge mentions in his Guardian piece today, it picked up $15m from New Enterprise Associates last September to continue running this channel (among others) and it’s also funded by YouTube’s Original Channels initiative.
So why mention this here? Because the app has been developed by SMPapps, a digital development studio launched by Boldon’s Playlists.net (the company formerly known as ShareMyPlaylists). SMPapps got a mention in Betarocket last year as it was first development studio for Spotify, and it’s got a portfolio that includes app design for Coca Cola and Purina Petfoods.
All told, there are close to 90 apps on the Spotify platform so far. You can check out this one via the link here.