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Premium subscription but still hearing ads on Spotify Original podcasts

Plan: Spotify Premium with Hulu

Country: United States

 

Device: iPhone 13

Operating System: iOS 15.1.1


Daily listener for the Spotify original podcast, "Leo Today." Despite my premium subscription, nearly every episode I listen to has a third party advertisement interrupting the podcast audio even though it's an original Spotify podcast.

Why am I paying a premium subscription to not hear advertisements while Spotify is producing original content that contains interrupting ads? There are images of sponsors cluttering the podcast landing page. It's one thing to hear interrupting ads in the middle of a production, but to always see them on a podcast page? Even in offline mode? On a Spotify ORIGINAL podcast page? 

I do not understand. Either this is exclusively a Parcast podcast and the "Spotify Original" text needs to vanish to prevent false advertising, or Spotify is ripping off their premium subscribers based on semantics, since the argument is music listening experience is not interrupted for premium subscribers, not necessarily podcast listening.

Why not offer a more expensive subscription option that is truly completely ad free??

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