eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoSpotify 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.netexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1126
arrow-up1126external-linkSpotify 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.neteicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squarecallous_trog@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoSpotify 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?
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?