Spotify owns megaphone. Megaphone embeds the ads in podcasts. It's sort of not in their interest to offer this feature. However, YouTube has this feature already. I'd guess they are mostly trying to stay competitive?
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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It's fine when I do it, but introducing this as default in Spotify will reduce the value of ad-reads, and I'm guessing Spotify won't make up the difference to producers.