Spotify Tells Kalshi and Polymarket to Remove Its Logo After Bot-Driven Chart Manipulation Affects Contract Settlement
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Spotify's request that Kalshi and Polymarket remove its logo and clarify no partnership highlights reputational and data-integrity risks when off-chain platform metrics are used to settle prediction-market contracts. The incident—bot-driven chart manipulation and the subsequent contract settlement—may prompt tighter verification standards and legal scrutiny across prediction markets, potentially reducing confidence in event-oracle inputs and short-term activity in related venues.
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Spotify has asked prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket to stop using its logo and to make clear that neither platform has any partnership with Spotify, Bloomberg reported on July 3, citing Huo Xing Cai Jing.
The request follows an incident in which Spotify detected bot activity manipulating its song charts. Spotify said it identified and removed more than 500,000 anomalous plays that briefly pushed Malcolm Todd's "Earrings" to the top of Spotify's U.S. charts.
The chart data was later used to settle a Kalshi contract tied to "the mostplayed song on Spotify in the U.S. in June," a market that had drawn roughly $3 million in trading volume.
