topic Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off? in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

How can I stop getting in-app recommendations?

johnwastle — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:44:51 GMT

I've attached an example of some Direct marketing sent my way.

How can I stop it?

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

IPhone 12

Operating System

iOS 17.1

Re: How can I stop getting concert recommendations?

johnwastle — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:11:05 GMT

Hi there Vasil,

I did already have that toggle set to off.

In any case, it does say that "These preferences only apply to push and email." By push notifications, I assume that means notifications within iOS.

Disable in-app concert recommendations

rileyjar — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:21:46 GMT

Allow users to opt out of receiving any in-app notifications for concerts in the area. I don’t like concerts, I don’t want Spotify to keep pushing them on me.

Re: Disable in-app concert recommendations

johnwastle — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:35:02 GMT

Rather than suggesting this as an idea, I should be able to opt-out of unsolicited Direct Marketing (according to UK/EU law). It does not seem to be possible.

How to stop repeated recommended concerts?

YoJimboYo — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:45:55 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

(iPhone 11 Pro)

Operating System

iOS 16.6.1

My Question or Issue

Each day, I receive an in-app pop-up for Jamie XX’s new year’s concert. Yes, he is an artist I follow, but I closed the pop up literally a month ago, and the pop-ups keep reappearing on a daily basis. I don’t want to go to the concert. I didn’t want to go last month, and I haven’t wanted to go each day since. Why can’t the app remember my preference and stop advertising to me? I feel that Jamie XX’s label and/or Ticketmaster has paid a lot of money to force this event on us, but I pay for premium and would much prefer to just get the one ad, not a daily pestering. Can I not opt out of in-app advertising? This is not a “recommendation,” this is an ad. Just a gripe. I know this will be explained away by Spotify as “good for the listener and for the artist.”

Re: How can I stop getting in-app concert recommendations?

danwheeler — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:42:07 GMT

I'm getting this too. Spotify apps keeps telling me about a Chicago concert even though I have all my notifications for stuff like this turned off. This is the kind of **bleep** that makes services fall from grace like MySpace. I just want music. I don't want the extras like lyrics, about the artist, etc. - all these extra things that pop up when you just want to listen to music makes Spotify look cheap.

Re: How can I stop getting in-app concert recommendations?

xithix — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:39:05 GMT

Same issue. I saw the concert, bought tickets, but do not need daily reminders that the concert is happening or that the same band is having another concert nearby. I dropped Spotify during the Podcast-first era, happy to do it again if they can't figure out how to play music without their app giving unwanted reminders.

Re: How can I stop getting in-app concert recommendations?

zeropumpkin — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:05:38 GMT

Same issue. It’s annoying that there is no setting to turn off these in-app notifications. They occasionally appear as modal pop-overs too. I note that the original question has not yet been answered by Spotify.

Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off?

NotJohnBoy — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:20:53 GMT

This is how I got to the above message.

Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off?

Elena — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:33:14 GMT

Hey there @NotJohnBoy,

Thanks for reaching out on the Community!

To opt out of receiving sponsored recommendations, go to your Spotify account on desktop > Account > Privacy settings > turn off Tailored ads.

This will opt you out of receiving sponsored recommendations and personalized ads generally across our product. If you turn off Tailored ads, you will continue receiving podcast ads in your Premium account, but they will not be tailored to you.

Hope this info helps!

Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off?

AnonMessiah — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:40:31 GMT

This doesn’t work, I have premium, and tailored ads off and am still getting this ‘sponsored recommendation’ in my home page.

Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off?

NotJohnBoy — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:29:12 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for your response. I navigated to the section you mentioned and it turns out I already have tailored ads turned off. Any other way I can get them to go away? I am confused why I got an ad that tells me it is sponsored when I already have them turned off. This also makes me wonder if I am getting any other sponsored content that isn't labeled. Thanks.

Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off?

Vasil — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:05:37 GMT

Hey folks!

Could you send us over some screenshots of what sponsored content you're seeing on your end?
You can attach them to the replies as @NotJohnBoy has done; we'd like to take a closer look into this if possible.

Many thanks!

Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off?

AnonMessiah — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:15:56 GMT

Re: Sponsored recommendations - how do I turn them off?

Maria — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:16:33 GMT

Hey there folks,

Thanks for the screenshots and all the info you've provided.

We've passed on the info for further investigation. While we can't give a specific timeframe for when we'll have more info to share, we can recommend keeping your app up-to-date to stay on top of any new released fixes.

Cheers!

Re: How can I stop getting in-app concert recommendations?

benhackett4 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:22:25 GMT

An especially annoying aspect of this is that the pop-up takes a sec to load, so it often causes me to tap on something I didn't want to, which is mildly infuriating.

The best example of this is when I went to play a song from an album, but as I went to tap the first song in the album, the ad popped up, and I tapped the button the causes the album to be removed from my library. Luckily I noticed this and added the album back, but it made me wonder if I always notice when mistapping due to delayed-load-ads.

If you're gonna force ads on Premium users, then please don't lazy load the ad, it's annoying to have the page layout shift as you go to tap stuff on your phone. (Or better yet, allow Premium users to disable this type of advertising!)

Re: How can I stop getting in-app concert recommendations?

Liev1 — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:14:16 GMT

I changed the city to a city in Russia (the point was to get a city with no concerts anywhere near it).

seems to work for now.

Re: How can I stop getting in-app concert recommendations?

user-removed — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 23:09:57 GMT

same

Re: How can I stop getting in-app concert recommendations?

Ohhellnah — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 18:27:22 GMT

Really annoying feature. Live near Norwich so had my location set as that, and now Spotify seems to basically count most of the UK as being "near me".