Industry links: Spotify playlist SEO, SoundCloud financial woes, Cogent update.

CDBaby on how to build a Spotify playlist that shows up in searches. Maybe.
SoundCloud has a problem: it’s haemorrhaging money, and the model “charge people who have more then three hours of stuff up” isn’t paying the bills. New round of funding as executives jump ship, despite denying they’re begging for cash.
Cogent’s hamfisted and incompetent block of the Pirate Bay turns out to have been from a court order, and Cloudflare are working on minimising the collateral damage.