I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.
Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑
You are also the product coz they keep raping your data and selling it to advertisers on other platforms.
Soon it will be pay for Spotify on the same tier but also hear ad’s.
How to introduce ads to the current premium tier without having everyone complain and leave
Step 1 - Introduce a new paid tier that’s cheaper, has all the premium features, but still has ads
Step 2 - wait a few months
Step 3 - increase all prices so that new “cheaper” tier is the same price as the current premium tier
This sounds like the Netflix model.
Maybe then they will turn a profit
Or pay artists for once lol
Navidrome may help
Not to be confused with Tim Janus, world championship burping title holder. I believe he also holds record for longest recorded burp at 18sec.
I cancelled my sub after I kept getting bombarded by some Michelle Obama podcast/book thing. Popped up so many times over the course of a week that I just yolo’d out and went with Youtube Premium (which gives Youtube Music as part of the deal).
I couldn’t deal with Spotify constantly pushing its industry plant artists and those paying to get into my recommendations. Fuck this company for not giving a shit about your actual tastes
Losers born every minute. Lol
Because the dollars must flow
…I’m still the product?
Yes. You always will be with any corporate streaming service.
I dropped Spotify and starting using iBroadcast and haven’t looked back. Glad to cut another subscription.
I wasn’t aware of that service. - Thanks, good tip!
You can disable it pretty easily in the settings. I wish more apps let you opt out of ads so easily.
no, you pay spotify so they can give Joe Rogan money to make up bullshit every day.
According to them here that’s basically an ad that is shown only if the algorithm “thinks” it’s your music taste.
Could help some smaller artists in your preferred genre to show themselves, while Spotify makes a profit.
They control the algorithm. If it gives you good recommendations, it is because they want to lure users in. Then they will slowly start pushing only whatever makes them the most money like other platforms do.
No small artist makes a profit with Spotify tho, it might help with publicity but the majority of the money lands in Spotifies pockets!
Yes, in a sense it can lead to killing all these small artists instead.
I’m sure this comes as no surprise, but they need to fix their algorithm. Don’t advertise me Morgan Wallen when I’ve been listening to speed and thrash metal for the past six months and the last country song I listened to was Hank III over a year ago.
Honestly I think it’s like Facebook, the advertiser can pick and choose what demographics see it- and some of them don’t care, and just hit “select all”. Waste of their money and annoys people who have no interest in the artist/genre being advertised because it should be targeted.
I canceled after the first time they did this with the “Drake takeover” in 2018. Their customer support claimed it wasn’t advertisement, lmao.
Use vanced Spotify and don’t pay them at all. I don’t use it cause I prefer to have my flac files stored locally and discovering new songs is stupid on Spotify (mostly mainstream bullshit) but for someone used to using Spotify it’s a good choice.
