"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?
"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?
I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a "sponsored recommendation".
Why am I seeing ads if I'm already paying for the premium plan!? 😑
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I understand some people against this, but it's the same as Netflix recommending a show or your cinema showing you other rmpvies to watch. Yeah it could be seen as an ad but it can help you find new content or enjoy other stuff we are not talking about an ad about something completely unrelated like a new toothpaste ...
Except this is a sponsored recommendation. In other words they don't show it to you because it matches your taste, they show it to you because someone paid for it to be shown to you. In my experience none of these sponsored recommendations have been something I'd remotely listen to, usually they're just random big mainstream artists.
Except all the examples I provided are also sponsored.
Right, and I dislike all of these as well lol. Trailers at the movies might be the only one I'd have a soft spot for, probably from nostalgia from seeing them as a kid.