Spotify serves ads on podcasts even for many listeners who thought they had them turned off. The ad load has climbed steadily over the last three years, and the mechanics of how Spotify inserts ads (d...
There are two honest ways to remove podcast ads: pay for a feed that never contains them, or use a tool that finds the ads in the audio and cuts them out of your listening. Everything else you'll ...
If you want to skip podcast ads without stabbing the +30s button four times per break, you have more options in 2026 than ever before. A new generation of apps can detect ad segments inside an episode...
Pocket Casts is one of the most-loved third-party podcast players around. Great queue management, cross-device sync, brilliant playback controls. But if you've searched for "how to block ads ...
Apple Podcasts is the most-used podcast app in the United States. It is also one of the worst for ads. There's no built-in ad blocker, episode ads are dynamically inserted into nearly every major ...
Podcast ads in 2026 are longer, more numerous, and harder to skip than they were three years ago. This is the complete guide to blocking podcast ads — every path that actually works, every path that d...
YouTube has become one of the biggest podcast platforms in the world. Lots of shows now publish a video version of every episode to YouTube as their primary distribution. That's good for the shows...
Spotify Premium is famous for one thing: no ads. Spotify also has the biggest podcast catalogue of any music app. So it's easy to assume that paying for Premium means ad-free podcasts too. It does...