Is there a Spotify alternative that has no ads?
I pay for Spotify for 7 years or so now and i’m so sick of all the ads. After every update there seems to be an: oops, sorry, you have ads now. Podcasts are filled with ads. I was just listening to a podcast where they shoved in 3 ads mid-sentence. How long until musicians put ads in their songs. I’m just so sick of it.
If you want to listen to podcasts, you should use a podcast app. Not an ad service with podcast functionality.
Podcasts are free (most of them). You can use any podcast app you like. I like poket casts, but you can find about 100 other apps.
Google has their own podcast app that’s also pretty good
It’s also getting shut down this coming year, so it’s not a great suggestion.
Lol of course it is
Podcasts will have ads no matter where you listen to them. That’s not Spotify inserting them, it’s the podcasts. I pay for a family subscription to Spotify, and I never get ads in between songs, not after updates or anything.
That’s not Spotify inserting them, it’s the podcasts.
The podcast may elect whether or not to include it, but it’s definitely Spotify performing the legwork. That is unless you think it’s a coincidence that I (with my Spotify home address set to Iowa) got an ad from the Iowa HHS on a podcast by a British podcaster.
It’s called dynamic ad insertion, and it’s the podcast hosts choosing to insert ads into their podcasts. I know this because I have a podcast with no ads.
Spotify is giving them that choice. It should say that it won’t run ads for premium users - only free ones.
It’s not Spotify that’s “giving them that choice.” It’s the podcast distributor. For example, I use Red Circle, and I can choose to insert ads through them. Podcasts have the same ads regardless of the platform they are on. It’s not Spotify, it’s the podcasts. I don’t like ads either…
How does it give me location specific ads if Spotify isn’t inserting the ad for them?
