*****PLEASE SEND THIS MESSAGE TO DANIEL (SPOTIFY'S CEO), TO SEE HOW YOUR DEV TEAM AND SOLUTIONS TEAM CAN NOT GET PAST THIS SIMPLE REQUEST*****
FIRST - SPOTIFY, thank you for your time; I hope you pass this important and more pressing issue for thousands of your users to the top and choose to implement the RIGHT SOLUTIONS. The profit will follow more organically if you do so. If you refuse to listen to these ideas and feedback and do nothing, you will just lose more customers in time and Profits due to countless competitors out there.
SECOND - If you create a "FAMILY PLAN or GROUP plan," YOU MUST create a way for the administrators of these groups to have control of every aspect of the options available in settings for each user under them. If not, WHY even allow an administrator? You already do this in many ways, e.g., turning off songs and allowing certain users to toggle on songs with "Explicit lyrics." So why is it you're refusing to make this change of turning off the **bleep** we don't want as listeners in our accounts and our younger teams as they are 14 and older? So please do it. This topic and feature have been discussed over a year in your forums and recommendations section.
As a software developer, I moved on to a much better offer after being there for four years. I also had inside knowledge, and I know you're TRYING to put profits over children's safety. So please do the right thing! The codes written implement it.
THIRD - I know for a fact, just from inside knowledge, that over 85% of your customers sign up for Spotify for MUSIC LISTENING ONLY. NOT for GARBAGE VIDEOS and to pay more for it as a result!
(in my case, myself and my wife are the admins over the other users) We should be able to TURN off the bull **bleep** "Tik Tok like videos," YouTube videos, and countless inappropriate podcasts from conspiracy wack jobs with sailors' mouths, such as Jo Rogan. It's all an act and NOT REAL. That's how they make their money by being controversial. Spotify, how can you feel good about being a literal MICROPHONE FOR ADULT GARBAGE CONTENT to YOUNG TEENS whose brains aren't even developed entirely? You guys started good but have let money and greed blind you when there's a better way to profit!
FOURTH - WE, like thousands of others, DID NOT PAY FOR SPOTIFY IN THE BEGINNING FOR VIDEOS! We signed up to listen to MUSIC! Just for you to later FIND WAYS TO add and MONETIZE VIDEOS no matter how inappropriate they may be at the expense of teens (14 and up even) who you KNOW cannot control that in their brains yet. WITH NO WAY TO TURN IT OFF! Science has proven how brains work, and sadly, countless companies like yours have lost their way and taken their eye off their VALUES and mission statements in the beginning. You're preying on youth and profiting. Shame on you. THE LITERAL GARBAGE ADDED TO YOUR PLATFORM IS SIMPLY GHETTO AND POOR CONTENT OVERALL OUTSIDE OF MUSIC. SO THAT YOU CAN JUSTIFY UPPING THE RATES OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS. For features, the majority of people could care less about. The list goes on.
Your platform is cluttering and putting in FEATURES that most ADULTS NEVER use because ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS MUSIC. But you know that the TEENS cannot control it, and they want to watch movies no matter the content and listen to music. YOU NAME it for our younger teens. Preventing Admins from turning the garbage off for our young teens' accounts in our group plan is a literal money grab for Spotify, and you know it. This is why you are SLOW to implement the code already written to add the feature so admins can turn it off. It makes me sick. You have already made it so that the Admins for the Family and group plans can shut off songs with "Explicit Lyrics" for any user in their family group. You can turn off that **bleep** from TikTok and Youtube etc. Please do so instead of focusing on your bottom line for Revenue at the expense of our teens. It's that simple. This idea has been brought up and suggested for over a year. It's asked so many times in this forum in different threads.
FIFTH:
Please prioritize and implement this ability asap. If NOT, I'll take my personal and the business I run to one of the many competitors and continue spreading the word about Spotify. I just so happen to run a successful company of over 45,000 employees. We provide Spotify as a "perk" for employees and their families. With a deal we made with Spotify, my contract is pullable after being run by my legal counsel. I will personally pull my contract and go to other competitors who give options to protect the youth of this world. The youth are our future and don't need the **bleep** you're helping facilitate with NO OPTION to shut it off.
Spotify's kid version is horrible and still has explicit content, just FYI, and the signup and sign-in process is horrific. It's not for teens and above, that is for sure.
Having TikTok "like garbage" for monetization BRINGS ZERO value to most of your customer base. We use Spotify to listen to music, not watch crude and ridiculous useless videos. That's what YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and countless other platforms are for.
- DARE TO BE DIFFERENT AND BETTER AND GO BACK TO YOUR GRASS ROUTES AND INTITAL VISION AND KEEP SPOTIFY TO A MUSIC and AUDIO PLATFORM ONLY. With OPTIONS for ADMINS TO CONTROL FOR GROUP SUBSCRIPTIONS.
NOW FOR A REASONABLE SOLUTION. IF ANYONE IS GOING TO COMPLAIN, THEY BETTER HAVE A SOLUTION.
1. Listen to your loyal customers, or you will lose them if you cannot implement a simple request like the one above. There's far too much competition out there, and you WILL NOT SURVIVE if you do not do so over simple matters like this.
2. You need to provide a different group subscription tier option that includes all the clutter people may want (TikTok-like videos, YouTube stuff, subpar at best advertisement, etc.). CHARGE MORE FOR THAT subscription!
3. You will find that the more adaptable options you give that make these options EASY to use, the more loyal users will be. Your company will grow faster and more organically.
Again, I thank you for your time. Please let me know WHEN and IF Spotify will enable this feature so that admins can turn off the garbage I and so many others have already mentioned. If SPOTIFY CHOOSES to ignore this, they will be using 45,000+ contracts. I want to know if this will ever be a reality, which is not even a day's work to roll out in an update.
Thank you
Staff / Moderator/ 3 years ago in Social & Random