[Mobile][Other] Remove or manage “Your top podcasts” from mobile home screen

[nicolesharris]

On the mobile app Home screen, “Your top podcasts” isn’t reflecting my most frequently used podcasts. It contains podcasts that I haven’t listened to recently, and yet it omits at least one of the podcasts to which I have listened recently.

How is Spotify defining “Top” podcasts?

Regardless of this definition, I want to manage which podcasts are displayed on my home screen.

Several users have provided feedback on this — and in particular, some users have unwittingly shared explicit podcasts with young children or family members. These people cannot dismiss/forget these podcasts from their home screen. Inappropriate and embarrassing. 

Allow Spotify users to manage which podcasts appear on “Your top podcasts.” 

[martinclive1312]

Well here's an interesting development. The 'Archewell' podcast, which I listened to once out of morbid curiosity to see how awful it would be, has finally disappeared from my Top Shows box after approximately 4 months. Is this perhaps the way the app works? Has anyone else noticed a time limit? The other possibility, of course, is that Spotify are so embarrassed at having overpaid for this nonsense, that they're quietly dropping it.

[kene33]

I support this https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Desktop-Discover-Separate-Podcast-Home-from-Music-... as a PARTIAL fix.

IMHO if Podcasts are costing Spotify so much they need to spam me with stuff I don't want. Then they should be able to remove them totally and charge me less.

I don't understand the appeal of Podcasts, they aren't for me, if i want to get lectured I'll tell my wife I sold the house and am buying a yacht. It's like buying a car and finding out that I'm forced to pay for square tires, and that every time i exit the vehicle, the tires reset to square. THIS SUCKS.

[rupert1020]

+1 

The Spotify home screen looks more and more like a pawn shop window. I only want music to show there, not all kinds of rubbish I don't want. A clean home screen, thats what I would like. Please !

[princepoloxxl]

Spotify, how exactly am I supposed to feel about your platform if I am consistently greeted with an obnoxious ad for a podcast named "**bleep** TOWN" every time I turn on the app? Not only have I never listened or even searched for anything of that sort, it actively makes me look bad when using your app. I feel embarassed to turn it on around others/in public. It's not a great feeling to evoke in a paying customer, is it?

(see, the name of the podcast itself seems to be too much for this forum, pretty ironic)

[RickyB667]

I see a constant suggestion of a person's podcasts who i hate. I have no idea how it got into my homepage.

But the fact that i can't "dislike" or remove it in any way is outrageous...

I shiver every time i open Spotify, because i see his face everywhere...

There must be a simple solution to this!

[clarktomd1]

I do not want my listening history to show up on CarPlay for everyone in the car to discuss.  Spotify has a much better product than Apple Music, but Apple gives the user control over their information.  I do not mind paying for Premium, but it should come with the ability to maintain control, manage privacy and keep nosy advertisers from harvesting me as a product.  Deleting history is a basic that the industry figured out about a decade ago.  Pushing this to the back burner is a clear indication that user experience is not important.  It should be reconsidered.

[dmang888]

This is a ridiculous and stupid feature. You accidentally listen to one second of one podcast and then everywhere it says Your top podcast!! well, no its not and I can't remove it. 

[Nomorepodcastad]

Hey, please remove podcast from my Home Screen. Of the 86,000 mins of content I streamed last year😌, less than 100 mins went to pod cast. I don’t want it. 

[G51e]

I am very annoyed that I have to see podcasts that do not interest me at all here when I pay to listen to music.  Certainly taking away from the user experience and no reason why this can be resolved quickly.

[alanlaird]

Please remove podcast suggestions and top podcasts from home screen if you are going to promote hate speech.