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eicker@eicker@lemmy.world
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Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.

podnews.net/article/spotify-threat-ad-skipping
A Spotify logo projected above a phone, with a skip-ahead buttonPodnewsSpotify threatens industry with ad-skipping toolThe tool encourages listeners to skip the ads, and even mentions of premium subscriptions
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callous_trog@callous_trog@lemmy.zip
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Replying to @⁨eicker@lemmy.world⁩

Spotify owns megaphone. Megaphone embeds the ads in podcasts. It’s sort of not in their interest to offer this feature. However, YouTube has this feature already. I’d guess they are mostly trying to stay competitive?

⁨Aug⁩ ⁨11⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨14:15⁩en
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