Rock Star Program - Name Change!

[Melody]

Hey everyone,

Heads up, we've got an exciting change coming up in the Rock Star program and we’d love to tell you about it.

We recently released our Star program values, and this was a commitment to delivering a more inclusive and welcoming program, with a goal to increase the diversity of our members. 

We’ve had some feedback on the name ‘Rock Stars’ over the years, and keeping this in mind we’re updating the program name to The Spotify Stars and appearing on Twitter as @AskSpotifyStars instead of @AskRockStars. 

If you’d like a reminder of our values, these are:

Respect:

We act with respect. Towards all Community users, each other, the program, and the company.

Inclusion:

No one should feel unseen or unheard. We believe in celebrating each person’s unique talents, interests, and backgrounds.

Support:

We're happy to help. We support our fellow Community users, and each other.

Teamwork:

We belong to a team. We pride ourselves in being part of something greater, together.

Fun:

We're not employees. We do this because it's fun, and we love it!

Responsibility:

We understand that our words and actions represent Spotify and the Rock Star Program, and we want to set the best example.

As you might have guessed, this is part of a bigger project where we’ll be updating the name of our Rock Star Program around Community too, so stay tuned!

Love, 

The Community Team

[Elena]

Hey @lblackwelluk,

We can't give you very specific details on what exactly the research and testing opportunities include because every test and feature roll out is different and the Spotify developers need the Star's help for different parts of the process.

In general being in the program does give you an earlier and deeper insight into most of the innovations but we can't guarantee that the Stars always receive information on all changes and tests in great detail.

Sorry I can't give you a more definite reply, but hope this helps.

[Akhter057]

Would being a piece of this program permit qualifying Spotify Star clients more understanding on impending deliveries and rollouts (explicitly what changes and updates will be incorporated)? This would be amazingly useful as they frequently fill in as contact focuses for conveying tips and data.

[lblackwelluk]

@Akhter057 -- precisely my question. If Spotify Stars can help serve as intermediary points to disseminate that kind of information, it would really help, and at the same time help tone down some of the heated commentary regarding the lack of transparency. I do understand that there's a lot going on behind the scenes, but there must be some kind of brief bulletpoint list of items being included in a rollout that can be shared. Not necessarily the smaller nuts and bolts, but larger things to look like (case in point, when some panes were made resizable or when a fix for the bug which mucked up the right-click on current song playing to add it to a playlist).

[lblackwelluk]

@Elena  @Katerina 

In looking at the older page for the Rock Star program, it says that an applicant will need to make a certain amount of helpful comments and posts to be considered.

When that's updated to the Spotify Stars program, what will that amount be?

[Katerina]

Hey @lblackwelluk - just spotted your message! I'm not quite sure what you mean here:

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When that's updated to the Spotify Stars program, what will that amount be?

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Are you asking how many posts you need to make before being able to join? 

And if you had a link to the page you refer to for context, that'd be super helpfull too 🙂