• Iwasondigg@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Can I just get one without ads? That's what I've been paying for and now suddenly podcasts have ads.

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      You pay for no ads through Spotify, but a podcast is sponsored they place ads in their cast unrelated to Spotify. I know how shitty that sounds and is, but it's probably the only way those pods are making money.

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        Nope. Spotify recently started adding adds before my podcasts. So now I have to sit through three ads before the podcasts starts and the I have to sit through the ads the podcasts add. It's unbearable.

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          A little bit of searching and I found this…Spotify Premium reserves the right to insert ads on exclusive podcasts, and ones that they produce/own. Ads will never be inserted into music streaming.

          My best guess would be that since they allow ads for podcasts, they are throwing in Spotify pushed ads on podcasts they own. Do you happen to know if it's specific podcasts? I would probably unsubcribe if I was randomly getting ads. The only other thing I found was people still getting ads when they were using air play, but that was a desync bug.

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        Spotify has bought out some podcasts and injected their own ads into them. You can tell which ones these are because the "now playing" bar switches from the podcast to the title of the ad. I find I'm unable to skip these in my car with my infotainment controls too which has lead to me unsubscribing from some of them.

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        Spotify does actually push me ads for random podcasts or album releases a couple times a month. I know that isn't what the original commenter was talking about, but it would be nice if they could knock that shit off.

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        I'm not referring to those ads. These are ads spotify adds before those ads. It's a recent thing they started doing.

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        I've been listening to podcasts through Spotify for a while now, and they're definitely inserted by Spotify from my experience. I've had personalized ads show up during defined ad break times, or the ad starts rolling mid sentence/doesn't roll when they say it's ad time.

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      Are they ads spotify put there, or specific sponsors for the podcast as part of the base audio?