Trasnparency - Ads in Poscasts

[nikkisinclair]

After over an hour of chatting with Spotify reps, no one is able to confirm that Spotify does or does not place ads in addition to those placed by content creators, into podcasts. This is has been a very unsatisfactory experience and feels intentionally misleading. 

[AlejaR]

Hey @nikkisinclair,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

We hope you don't mind us moving your post out of the ideas section to one of our Help boards as it fits better here.

As part of the Premium subscription, all music can be enjoyed ad-free. And while Spotify doesn’t play ads that interrupt the music listening experience of Premium subscribers, some podcasts may include advertising, host-read endorsements, or sponsorship independently of the streaming platforms featuring such podcasts.

What we mean is that we provide this option to podcast creators as an extra way to help them monetize and live off of their content. As this is a good way to support content creators, we don't plan on taking this feature away from them at the moment, and we also don't enforce any mandates on who wants to activate it or not.

This doesn't mean that your feedback isn't heard and that this request couldn't be fulfilled by some other means in the future. On the contrary, we invite everyone to share their opinion in a constructive manner. We located this idea posted by another user; feel free to add your vote in the thumbs up icon and subscribe to it so you can stay up to date.

Lastly, we moved your idea here in order to add the above insights. We value every piece of feedback you share with us; but our Ideas board is to help us receive new product and feature suggestions that will allow us to improve our app and service for everyone.

We hope you found this helpful. Let us know if you need anything else.