#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 2026-09-26 09:05 UTCNo measured public usage for #payola in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 09:05 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #payola.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-26 09:05 UTCNo recent public posts found for #payola on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “payola” means
WikipediaPayola, 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