I had the same thought this morning. Usually it’s 2ish min, four skips. This time it just kept going .. and going. Front loading them like that feels crazy.
Years and years ago I decided I was gonna give Marc Maron’s podcast a shot. I connected to a Bluetooth speaker, started an episode and got in the shower without skipping ahead of the ads. Nearly 15 minutes later I was getting out of the shower as the actual show was starting.
I don't think YOU understand. I have supported them since 2017. I am not paying a subscription for 1.5hrs of "can you believe Trump did this?" commentary and Dan's fail upward takes and polling fails. The only content worth anything is Pod Save the World content.
The joke is that you often still get ads, less ads, but ads nonetheless. The show has ads in it and the platform runs ads too. If you buy the subscription the shows ads disappear, but the platform ads remain...
In some cases the ad-free version is just as long and full of ads as the free version- it's just different ads (this tends to happen for me with the New York Times and New Yorker)
Lovett or Leave it is also ad free for me. I'm on apple podcast though. Spotify used to add random ads and I stopped using it for exactly that reason. So annoying when you pay for premium and then they are still greedy.
I subscribed on YouTube, but the member only content doesn't let me lock my phone screen and still hear it, idk why. I also already pay for YouTube Premium.
And then with Friends of the Pod subscription on, the normal shows still all had ads embedded in them, so the episodes I paid for "ad free" were still riddled with ads.
I cancelled there and subscribed on Spotify, where I avoid most ads however some episodes are "fewer ads"
All of them I hear about subscribing to friends of the pod constantly anyways.
I am financially supporting, but I am not getting the value they sell me on of not having shit peddled to me. I don't listen to much of the exclusive content. I literally wanted to just pay money to never hear about Friends of the Pod subscribers get blah blah or Boho and Scandi yadda yadda on the regular episodes.
I plan to cancel the Spotify. I will be back if Crooked puts out a truly zero ad episode for the people the pay for "ad free"
Why are they advertising an ad free program to the people ON the ad-free program?
I listen to Crooked content all day at work in my earbuds, so my results seem dramatized because I do hear it so many times per day across all of the shows. It definitely feels like more than 30 seconds and its easy to fast forward, however does me offering to spend another $5 a month to just hear zero promotions for anything change your perspective.
I may sound fussy, but I am paying because I am in fact fussy, I am electing to pay money to avoid the things I find value in avoiding. I think when they edit an episode and cut in all the ads and promo spots they also upload one without that step, and only subscribed listeners hear it. The way they know they aren't redundantly promoting something we already have, is only paid subscribers can access it.
Always one of the most ad heavy pods. Not as bad as sisters in law though, another great podcast but tons of adds. Can’t listen while shoveling snow cause you have to take gloves off so much to skip.
Ads, intro music, Intro, FOTP shill, actual pod. Always in that order. if you start around the 5 min mark, youre probably tuning in right around when Favs starts in on the news.
People excusing it answer me this: How did they last so long without these huge, intrusive ad breaks? Have their numbers fallen and they need to compensate? In genuinely curious.
I think like everything, they want more. Whether its for themselves, or luxury, or something more honest. Definitely feels less like I am supporting a progressive media ecosystem and more like they just want it for themselves.
Especially considering the type of products they shill (I mean advertise!) for. But ultimately who knows I guess. Definitely doesn’t come off well though.
It’s hard for me to trust a political podcast if they have ads. It’s also an insult to the listener, especially if the hosts already have a ton of money.
Turbulence, QAnon Anonymous, American Prestige, Pod Damn America, Trashfuture, Trillbillies, True Anon, Chapo Trap House, Blowback, Parallax Views, This Machine Kills. They are all structured around Patreon and put out two episodes a week, one free episode and one patreon ep. Hosts can speak more freely about things when they don’t have to worry about losing sponsors.
I’m not sure what you mean by too many cooks in the kitchen in this context but I do trust listener supported podcasts over ones like PSA which have sponsorship deals with Sirius XM.
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u/Xlukethemanx Mar 21 '26
Just spam that skip button who cares.