• JWBananas
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    17 months ago

    They can’t really control the fact that podcast producers put ads in their podcasts, no?

    • Bleeping Lobster
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      17 months ago

      I’m not talking about those, I’m fine with that… In some cases they’re quite entertaining. I’m taking about the ones Spotify inserts seemingly at random, occasionally in the middle of a joke or sentence. Three at the start, three at the end, three at some random point in the middle. I just fast forward them.

      • JWBananas
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        17 months ago

        What country are you in? I listen to hours of podcasts every day and have never seen Spotify insert ads into them.

        • Bleeping Lobster
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          17 months ago

          Of course you’ve never seen them inserting ads, they’re not a visual medium!

          (sorry sorry sorry)

          I’m in UK, the land of gray skies and bad jokes

          • JWBananas
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            17 months ago

            Interesting. I’m across the pond.

            I wonder if it’s only specific podcasts?

            Almost everything I listen to is from NPR or APM or PRX. There are plenty of ads, but they’re burned into the podcasts just like on every other platform.

            Maybe Spotify is inserting ads into the podcasts that they paid high amounts for? They spent, what, a billion dollars on exclusivity deals?