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Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

crazygringo wrote: post #8

Spotify Premium has always had ads in podcasts. This isn't new or news. It's because podcasts have always had ads in them, very often baked right into the audio. That's just how podcasts are. Not really defending it, but with Spotify you're paying for the music. Podcasts are just there as an extra, unaffected by whether you're paying or not. The good thing is that when they're actual Spotify platform ads instead of b…

Please don't support or frequent Spotify podcasts. Podcasts should not be walled-garden, they should monetize directly and publicly by having the ads at the start or end or sometimes I guess interspersed.

Truth be told, I'm starting to review my default "hatred" of ads. I hate ads for terrible Hard-R random shit. I can live with my podcasts advertising at least closer to being intelligent products but not personalised stuff. /Comment

Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by TheCapeGreek »

hedora wrote: post #22

I don’t understand why people use Spotify for podcasts. There are plenty of search indexes that return the rss/atom feed, and you can download the audio files direct from the publisher. What does adding a middleman buy?

The middleman already serves music, so it's convenient instead of "just setting up an rss reader". That's an extra app/site to keep checking instead of just opening the one you already use for audio-related entertainment.

Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by slau »

vinni2 wrote: post #24

> I think it’s time to use my Apple Music included in family sub that I’m already paying for. First of all Apple music doesn’t have podcasts and Apple podcasts has ads too! This is clickbaity article.

Apple Music definitely has podcasts. They are exclusive podcasts only available on Apple Music.

There’s The Zane Lowe Show, The Ebro Show, The Kelleigh Bannen Show, etc. There’s also After School Radio hosted by Mark Hoppus, and those kind of “artist-hosted” shows.

Technically they’re called “shows”, not “podcasts”, but they definitely seem like they’re following the format. These “shows” do not have ads.

Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by [deleted] »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #23
crazygringo wrote: post #8

Spotify Premium has always had ads in podcasts. This isn't new or news. It's because podcasts have always had ads in them, very often baked right into the audio. That's just how podcasts are. Not really defending it, but with Spotify you're paying for the music. Podcasts are just there as an extra, unaffected by whether you're paying or not. The good thing is that when they're actual Spotify platform ads instead of b…

Please don't support or frequent Spotify podcasts. Podcasts should not be walled-garden, they should monetize directly and publicly by having the ads at the start or end or sometimes I guess interspersed. Truth be told, I'm starting to review my default "hatred" of ads. I hate ads for terrible Hard-R random shit. I can live with my podcasts advertising at least closer to being intelligent products but not personalise…

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Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by Obscurity4340 »

Obscurity4340 wrote: post #23
crazygringo wrote: post #8

Spotify Premium has always had ads in podcasts. This isn't new or news. It's because podcasts have always had ads in them, very often baked right into the audio. That's just how podcasts are. Not really defending it, but with Spotify you're paying for the music. Podcasts are just there as an extra, unaffected by whether you're paying or not. The good thing is that when they're actual Spotify platform ads instead of b…

Please don't support or frequent Spotify podcasts. Podcasts should not be walled-garden, they should monetize directly and publicly by having the ads at the start or end or sometimes I guess interspersed. Truth be told, I'm starting to review my default "hatred" of ads. I hate ads for terrible Hard-R random shit. I can live with my podcasts advertising at least closer to being intelligent products but not personalise…

Because im complicated I will now argue the opposing position.

One thing I really DO like about it is it does corden off a certain population of listeners that I'm happy to have set aside—although there's guests that I would appreciate listening to so I don't have to leave it to the news to engage with purely on the level of ideas rather than boosting their following or "stats" independant of their performance or empirically-demonstrated views...

Edit: its hilarious how even today, the truly undesirebles will pay to self-segrate. Im alrightwith that, as long as evil has to work and pay to survive, there's hope for a free and liber(al|ty)-based society since rhe default is wanting something good thats also free ;)

I wonder if this has any currency as the genesis of the "private school" obsession

Re: Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well

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Post by benwad »

hedora wrote: post #22

I don’t understand why people use Spotify for podcasts. There are plenty of search indexes that return the rss/atom feed, and you can download the audio files direct from the publisher. What does adding a middleman buy?

Listening to podcasts on my computer, I want to go and do some cleaning, so I switch it over to playing on my phone seamlessly so I can walk around the house listening. Spotify is the only solution that I know of for this.
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