How can I Hide paid podcasts for shows that i am subscribed to?

[Titletown]

I am a subscriber to some pods that offer free shows, but also have paid episodes as well. I am not a paying subscriber, but both free and “locked” paid shows are showing up in my feed, and I can’t get them to go away. Its incredibly annoying.

[busrentaldubai8]

That sounds annoying! On Spotify, there isn't a built-in filter to separate free from paid episodes directly. A workaround could be to manually create a playlist and add only the free episodes you're interested in. This way, you can avoid seeing the locked episodes in your feed. Hope this helps clear things up!

[coryj2012]

I'm having the same issue.  It wasn't a thing before the last app update.  If I could mark these episodes as finished it would be a vast improvement.  At this point I want to completely unsubscribe to the effected podcasts.

[TanyaS]

Hey,

Thank you for reaching out to the Spotify community 

Currently the option to filter is based on newest to oldest, played and unplayed.

You can suggest a feature here ,an idea gets enough votes, it’s sent to the teams within Spotify to review.

[Titletown]

This does not solve my problem and don’t believe a new feature is
required. It seems that a systematic change was made a couple weeks ago
that changed the “New Episodes” playlist. I never used to get locked/paid
podcasts in this list until recently. I’m now seeing them and cannot make
them go away.

It clutters up the list and makes for a poor user experience. This on top
of other poor experiences makes it difficult to enjoy using the app.

[mjsschulte750]

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Filter-Paid-and-Unpaid-Content-in-New-Episodes-Feed/idi-...

I am having the same issues and I have created an “idea” here which brings this issue to Spotifys attention. Please go vote for it.