Ads on joe rogan with premium account

[DaveShmoe]

Why are there ads at the beginning of the Joe Rogan experience. I have a premium account. They weren’t there before. 

[DaveShmoe]

Hey folks!

Thanks for reaching out about this here in the Community. We'll be happy to explain a bit more about this.

Spotify doesn’t play or include ads that interrupt the listening experience of Premium subscribers. However, some podcast creators may include third-party advertising, host-read endorsements, or sponsorship messages in their episodes.

Spotify gives the podcast hosts the option to choose if they would like to have a dynamic ad slot in their podcast, but that isn't something Spotify can control - it's up to the individual podcast owners if they choose to have that type of ad in their content.

We hope this sheds some light on this. If you need anything else, give us a shout.

Cheers!

[jasonfreeberg]

You can't even swipe to skip the the ads! I have premium as well. 

[jpspyro]

Same. What gives? It’s this kinda thing that drives users to piracy. 

[Peter]

Hey folks!

Thanks for reaching out about this here in the Community. We'll be happy to explain a bit more about this.

Spotify doesn’t play or include ads that interrupt the listening experience of Premium subscribers. However, some podcast creators may include third-party advertising, host-read endorsements, or sponsorship messages in their episodes.

Spotify gives the podcast hosts the option to choose if they would like to have a dynamic ad slot in their podcast, but that isn't something Spotify can control - it's up to the individual podcast owners if they choose to have that type of ad in their content.

We hope this sheds some light on this. If you need anything else, give us a shout.

Cheers!

[debsz]

Don't believe you. I paid for premium because no ads**bleep**!!!!

[Detroithxc]

So to listen to joe I now have to listen to ads cannot watch it on my Apple TV and cannot comment, and I’m not able to watch all of the episodes... sounds like YouTube is better hmm...

[o_nab]

Spotify may not be able to control if a creator uses their ad slot service for their podcast, but they can control whether Premium members have to listen to these ads. If you advertise Spotify Premium as an ad-free subscription service, and then continue to serve up ads, then I see no reason to continue  paying for the subscription if I can just pay $0/mo and get the same treatment. 

[Jeremy]

Hey there folks,

Thank you for your replies and feedback in this thread.

There's currently an idea about this - [All Platforms] No Ads in Podcasts for Spotify Premium users that you can find here.

Once again - thanks for the feedback. We appreciate it.

If you have any questions we're always one reply away.

[Yipp]

• But we paid for premium without ads. It’s now clear to me that Spotify is UNWILLING to provide the “service” I paid for. I do not pay for ads but Spotify ALLOWS ads regardless. I pay so they do not reach me because we live in a world where we are overloaded with ads. This encourages piracy. Pass along a “adda boy” to your marketing and advertising crew. They lost one today.  I could rather not listen to Spotify whatsoever than listen to back to back ads despite paying monthly for years to not have to them. I have found this forum and typed this entire message faster than he could get through all 4 BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK ads.(I’ll wait... 10 minutes of continuous ads now finished)  Well.. I haven’t tried Pandora radio in a while.. Thanks Spotify for failing your loyal subscriber of several years. 
  
  

Now I remain a loyal fan to Joe. But not to Spotify. Because I’d rather listen to an ad for free. Lol I have a feeling you all aren’t sweating it. 

[LittleShea]

Why am I getting ads DURING the Joe Rogan Podcast? I am Premium user.

[Alex]

Hi there folks,

As @Peter has mentioned above, some podcasters may choose to include third party ads in the podcasts apart from any paid promotions which they announce during the actual podcast.

Add your Vote for this Idea if you want this to change in future updates.

Hope this helps.

[justintru]

Annoying but you can swipe to fast forward to the end! No skipping option.

[Yipp]

Briefly announcing third party promotions within the podcast as I’m tuned into the podcast itself is one thing. My 4 back to back ads I experienced were played back to a previous recording. 10+ minutes of continual, separately recorded audio that had nothing to do with the content of the podcast. It was changing ads like changing music tracks as usual on Spotify. It was a separately recorded ad the Spotify allowed to be played outside the audio track of the podcast itself. That’s an advertisement anyway you look at it. That’s the issue.

[ScrewAds]

Same issue here. I wonder if we have enough support for a Class Action Lawsuit as Spotify is clearly allowing ads yet continues to promote its Premium Subscription as an “ad-free experience”...

[matma79]

This is amazing.

This is a company actually telling you that it DOES NOT CARE whether you are right or wrong. Theyll only do the right thing if enough people complain (or Vote lol) about it.

[Thegreatrichard]

This is a total scam. What part of ad free don’t you understand?

[thegnord]

This response from Spotify does not make sense. JRE front-loaded all its ads before the exclusive Spotify deal kicked in. Now, exclusive to Spotify, and as a premium Spotify member, I start getting ads in the middle of JRE? Tomfoolery I say, Spotify must be at fault.

[discobiscuits]

Ive been using Spotify since being a beta user when it first launched. I’m a premium user now to strictly not have to hear ads. You selling us an “ad free” premium experience but then saying “oh btw there are ads if the artist chooses to use them” is scummy as it comes. I refuse to sit through 10 minutes of bs ads before each podcast. You will lose a lot of customers for doing this for sure. Do the right thing Spotify.

[Sabadapolis]

I have paid for Spotify premium for YEARS because there are NO ADS!! All of a sudden now we get ads on podcasts, what’s next? Are you going to introduce another more expensive subscription option? This is total bs. Good luck with ad revenue most people would rather pirate, and now they have a good reason to. Way to betray your subscribers.

[Smtdba]

I’ve listened to JRE for years so I’m used to the upfront ad reads. I understand podcasts have these mid episode ad reads. That’s expected to come with.

having them as tracks outside of the audio is really buggy. If I skip through my podcasts, they get triggered and I’m stuck until I get out of the opening set. 
If I come back to a an episode I’ve already seen ads for (Spotify crashes or my phone decides to skip to another episode and I need to nav back), I have the ads again!

then halfway through are totally out of place generic ads. Not an ad read. 
I paid to not have those.