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James Cridland reports that Spotify terms of service allow the platform to edit ads out of creator content and host it directly. Meanwhile, Spotify claimed a recent unskippable ad video was a resolved bug, not a planned feature.
Megaphone updated its backend systems, leading to glitches that prioritized Spotify-sold network campaigns over publishers' direct-sold ads. The update also forced aggressive competitive exclusion filters, preventing multiple niche-market advertisers from appearing in the same ad block.
Liam Heffernan criticizes Spotify and Megaphone's automated AI copyright scanners for flagging legally licensed production music. These false positives force creators to manually upload licensing documentation for every single automated flag.
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