Creators would have to report lower listener numbers to advertisers because paid Spotify listeners wouldn't get the ads being sold. If Spotify asked permission to remove such ads to avoid copyright issues, creators would want to be compensated for the drop in Ad Rev. If Spotify removed the ads from podcasts to serve ad free versions to their paying subs without the permission of the content creators that would most likely be copyright infringement.

This is the same for Apple Podcasts/Google Podcasts/Tunein/Stitcher/Etc. The vast majority of podcasts on Spotify are from podcast creators submitting their RSS feed to Spotify because it has a decent userbase.

Spotify doesn't share the subscription with most podcasts (Obv exception being Joe Rogan, but thats an exclusivity deal, I'm not sure if it even went 'Ad Free' after the Spotify deal as I've not listened to it in years). > If you pay for the Spotify subscription I'd expect _all_ ads to be removed. Looking at the stats for a couple of podcats I help in the backend of, we tend to get more people listening on Spotify then we do on any of the other platforms. From a podcast creators point of view Spotify has a large userbase for your listeners to fid you on. You just have one app for your music and your podcasts. Why not just use another service instead of Spotify for podcasts?.

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