If you are a passionate user of Spotify, you may have met his sponsored recommendations on the home page-and if you are like me and you have not done it, consider yourself among the lucky ones.
In short, the sponsored recommendations are small pop -ups on your home page that show musical suggestions but in the form of advertising, and they have made the bad way of Spotify in the wrong direction – especially those who pay premium subscriptions.
A recent Reddit article on sponsored recommendations (see below) has collected more than a hundred responses, users sharing their reflections on sponsored recommendations and when and where they appear. Although he does not explicitly indicate how users can unsubscribe, there is a way to get around this.
Advertisements for a service you pay to be added for free are absolutely diabolical. of R / TREESPOTIFY
To stop seeing sponsored content, all you have to do is go to Spotify on your desktop (you cannot do it in the application) and go to the “Account” section. From there, go to the “confidentiality of the account” and deactivate the “tailor -made ads”, and you should be free from sponsored musical suggestions.
Although some users do not seem too embarrassed to see sponsored recommendations, they have proven to be a huge stop for others, and those who are not fans shared three main objections in the Reddit wire above.
Although some Spotify users on Reddit have been opened to sponsored musical recommendations, a common complaint on the part of others is found on the sponsored content of artists with whom they have never engaged – a classic Spotify behavior.
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A user (illustrated above) underlined that the sponsored pop-up recommendation forced the new music of larger artists such as Drake and Taylor Swift in their home page, despite this user never broadcast his music, which seems a bit presumptuous
These recommended slots are obviously reserved for more popular artists who can afford to pay Spotify, which leads to the promotion of their music at the expense of upright artists who could otherwise appear in user recommendations. That said, Spotify has shown that the sponsored content of users of artists followed and broadcast, it would not be a problem.
2. Spotify does not indicate this when you register for Premium
Another argument that Spotify users have raised is that when you register for a Spotify subscription, there is no mention in the registration process that users can tackle sponsored recommendations.
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However, some users have said that they only care about reading music without advertising and say that sponsored recommendations are a reasonable intrusion. On the other hand, others firmly believe that all areas of the Spotify ecosystem, including podcasts and the home page itself, should be free from sponsored content. I stand with the latter.
If there is one thing on which Spotify fans can agree collectively, it is the importance of supporting small artists, what I mentioned earlier, and users have stressed that sponsored recommendations push the upcoming musical versions that users have already pre-saved as well as songs of artists they follow.
However, there is another factor that seems to be linked to the way in which the sponsored musical suggestions are presented: Tiktok.
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It is undeniable that the circulation of social media plays a big role in promoting new music – take the latest album Addison Rae for example, which currently goes around social networks, and which is mentioned in the Reddit Post.
This is something that users previously expressed their disappointment about the line, highlighting their experiences with Spotify bulging their reading lists with viral successes and pushing its vertical tiktok style video content. Now it may be possible that viral music will interfere with sponsored recommendations.
Given the number of users who have come forward to share their frustration with sponsored content, it is just that Spotify manifests itself and responds to these concerns. It will be a testimony to what he cares about his subscribers, but we all know what the result will be.
