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.

  • ickplant@lemmy.world
    532·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • ickplant@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          11 months ago

          Spotify is giving them that choice. It should say that it won’t run ads for premium users - only free ones.

          • ickplant@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 months ago

            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…

            • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
              7·
              11 months ago

              This is correct. I use AntennaPod and one of the podcasts I listen to started using dynamic insertion along with normal sponsorships.

              I dropped that podcast.

            • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              How does it give me location specific ads if Spotify isn’t inserting the ad for them?

              • misophist@lemmy.world
                6·
                11 months ago

                both things are true. The decision to include an ad is made by the podcast producer, but the dynamic ad is facilitated through Spotify’s dynamic ad platform. Podcast producers have been including paid sponsorships in podcasts in addition to inserting ads in their podcasts. For the inserted ads, they will work with the podcast platforms to insert dynamic ads if the platform supports it (like spotify) or generic baked-in ads if the platform doesn’t support it. Either way, inclusion of these ads is controlled by the producer, not the platform, so paying to remove platform-controlled ads won’t remove these ads. If you want your podcast with no ads at all, you may need to see if the producer offers an ad-free version (possibly through a proprietary paid platform like patreon).

      • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Unless they’re talking about ads that the podcasters themselves at to the recording. They’re not all inserted by whatever platform you get them from. This is what they’re referring to.

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.socialOP
      22·
      11 months ago

      @ickplant sometimes they are. American podcast doesn’t sometimes have german ads. And if they do, fuck them. That’s like paying for netflix but some movies still have ads.

      • ickplant@lemmy.world
        71·
        11 months ago

        But it’s literally the podcast hosts choosing to insert ads. Not Spotify. It would be like blaming Netflix because you didn’t like what the characters are wearing on one of the movies.