Streambait
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Streaming content, especially music, primarily created for the sake of optimizing user engagement. Internet, uncommon, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From stream + -bait, modeled on clickbait.
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