TechnologyEnglish · 15 days ago

Spotify 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.

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Spotify 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.

TechnologyEnglish · 15 days ago

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Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool

The tool encourages listeners to skip the ads, and even mentions of premium subscriptions

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“premium users”

It’ll probably work like YouTube premium, a cut of that users sub will go to the artist

Anecdotally, creators seem to make more from premium viewers than ad supported ones

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