Unrelated random “You Might Also Like” episodes in my followed podcasts?

[Swiftiecott]

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

iPhone 15, iPad (9th Gen), MacBook Pro 2019 16 inch, Fire TV Stick, and web browsers

Operating System

iPhone 15: iOS 17.5.1

iPad (9th Gen): iPadOS 17.5.1

MacBook Pro 2019 (16 inch.): macOS 14.5

Fire TV Stick: Fire OS 7.6.7.3

Plus, the problem also happens on web browser version of Spotify.

My Question or Issue

Well, just in recent days I found random episodes from other podcasts that marked as “You might also like” suddenly begins adding into podcasts I follows, none of those episodes are related to podcasts I followed, and I’m sure that is not the podcasts creators’ action since same podcasts on other platforms don’t have those random episodes (Update: the same situation now also happened on same podcast on Apple Podcast, see my reply below)

As a premium subscriber, this episodes (or “advertisements” in better way to describe them) is so annoying. Come on, Spotify, this is not the experience users want!

[Swiftiecott]

OK, just after few days not inserting unrelated podcasts' episode into my followed podcasts, it started insert unrelated podcast episodes in today again!

 What the **bleep** of this "You Might Also Like" episode about dating lesson???? I'm following podcast about Taylor Swift, not a podcast about dating lesson!

These promotion is just as terrible and disgusting as those unrelated advertisement seen on Google search or Instagram, I'm so disappointing about Spotify makes these promotion to ruining users' experience of Podcasts, and I believe your promotion for these unrelated episodes can also hurt podcast creators that losing subscribers who hate unrelated ads!

Please, Spotify Team, if you don't want lose a user who hate unrelated advertisements like me, STOP doing promotions like this way, or at least add a "Not Interested" button into these "You Might Also Like (and never related to my followed podcast)" episodes!

[Swiftiecott]

Update: Well, just found The podcasts I followed now also have same issue that having unrelated “You Might Also Like” episode on Apple Podcasts (and it seems only happened on this podcast). By the way, in order test the problem is come from creator or Spotify, I will subscribe another random podcast to see if unrelated “You Might Also Like” episode also appear on that podcast.