#payola
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #payola from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-01 18:41 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-01 18:41 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-01 18:41 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~13544 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (37) · Spanish (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
Apparently influencers are all about getting paid. 🙄 LA Times: Restaurants are paying influencers for promotional posts. How messy can it get? "...A $500 deal between Hollywood Thai and a popular food influencer collapsed into online outra
@ai6yr remember when #payola was illegal & a major scandal? That was cool.
NPR: Music influencers are getting paid to promote songs — and they're not telling you https://www.npr.org/2026/07/13/nx-s1-5849926/influencers-paid-music-promotion #influencers #payola
What “payola” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediapayola/peɪˈəʊlə/
- nounA bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record).
Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment. Under U.S. law, a radio station must disclose songs they were paid to play on the air as sponsored airtime. The number of times the songs are played can influence the perceived popularity of a song, and payola may be used to influence these metrics. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) treats payola as a violation of the Sponsorship Identif
“Payola” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#payola across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #payola straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/payola