• Zanshi@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Wait what. I know some platforms for managing podcasts like Anchor shove in ads, sometimes even mid sentence, but this is the first I hear of Spotify itself inserting them

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      11 days ago

      This is what made a lot of people I know stop using Spotify for podcasts.

      My coworker told me they were listening to a podcast, and while the podcasts host were mid ad read for their sponsor, Spotify put an ad in. So he got an ad during an ad.

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      11 days ago

      Podcasters that upload to Spotify have the option of inserting ads and making money from this

      Most of my podcasts don’t but some do, actually I think the ABC is the only one that does, and it says if you don’t want to hear advertising use their podcast app, so maybe it’s a way of punishing us for not using their app

      Then again besides the ABC’s If you’re listening all my other podcasts are french language learning ones…

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        11 days ago

        Did they stop just grabbing podcasts from the free web and playing them in Spotify? I remember from a few years ago that some podcasts were complaining and willing to sue Spotify for stealing their content.