This is very annoying. Apparently Pandora has more Spanish speaking listeners in my area than English. I get. Orr Spanish ads than English.
that balcony about the ad operations team working on a solution. I have a solution - cut down the number of Spanish speaking ads.
Amen. Same problem here.
I also have this same issue. I do not speak Spanish and I have back to back Spanish ads that play on my pandora lists. I don't even listen to Spanish or Mexican music because I don't understand it. Can we remove this option from the S24 Ultra? There should be an option for choice of language and in that case I'd like my ads in Navajo.
There should be a better way to report unwanted Spanish ads. My zipcode has many Spanish speakers, but most of them speak English better. My solution is to change my zipcode. hope that works.
I received an ad in Spanish. I was listening to a station called 70s, 80s, 90s Hits Radio on Pandora at 16:14 on 5/28/24.
I constantly get Spanish ads. Nearly every ad is Spanish. This solution is stupid. Just have a frickin language preference and base ads off of that!
These Spanish speaking ads really ruin Pandora for me. ALSO a lot of them I can't even skip! It's like they freeze my whole Pandora app! I'm going back to Spotify until they have an option to turn Spanish ads off
Please advise how you are supposed to send a screenshot of annoying spanish ad if it doesn't even load... Ridiculous
@annml0730 I'd be happy to help with any questions you have, but I will need additional information to do so.
Can you explain your issue a bit further?
What do you mean when you say the ad doesn't load?
The more details you're able to provide, the better equipped I'll be to help.
I look forward to hearing back.
You request screenshots but whenever you go into the app the screen is black so you have no idea what the ad is or if it's in spanish lol.
setting my location seemed to help.
@annml0730 Thanks for following up and clarifying.
If any other Spanish ads play on your account, please make note of:
Thanks for working with me on this.
Please stop with the Spanish ads. I just turn the channel asap. Don't understand any Spanish and don't want to hear it. The people paying for these ads are wasting their money.
Two spanish ads in a row on Happy Radio Station at 10:21AM EST.
I do not have permission to upload the photos here. I have sent an email
Two more Spanish Ads at 10:40AM EST> Eggo Waffles and McDonalds. Last Spanish ad was at 10:30AM EST. Images are being sent in a private message
Oh look, another one for Ashley Furniture at 10:48AM EST.
Moderator Edit: Merged comments
@annml0730 Thank you for reporting these.
We are currently looking into Happy Radio and why these ads are playing more frequently on that station.
I recommend creating a new station based off of one of your favorite songs that plays on Happy Radio.
In the meantime, I have passed your message along to our Ads team for further review.
We appreciate you taking the time to reach out to us about this!
Adam, it would help if we knew where to send the screenshot, i.e. a link!!
This is unacceptable and I am done listing to your Banner Health ads in Spanish on a classic Rock station.
@Papahotshot80 To send a screenshot, you can click on the camera icon located in the Reply box:
In addition to sending a screenshot, please make sure to reply back with:
Thanks for working with me on this.
This absurd request, for listeners to do Pandora's work for them, has been up for over a year. I've seen several responses and believe that Pandora has received enough responses to build a solution.
In actuality, Pandora does not seem to care about the impact that it has on their listening audience. As a result, most of us non-Spanish speaking listeners get so frustrated that we turn off Pandora and move to one of the many other streaming services available. Spotify, Heart, Amazon...pick one. There's plenty. All of those services don't play annoying ads in languages I don't speak. Language preferences are built into devices and software all over the world. It's a standard practice - for everyone except Pandora.
If Pandora doesn't care, then be honest. Say so.
As I mentioned earlier, you have plenty of data sets by now to build a solution. Most coders could do this as a basic functionality. Do something for a change.
In the meantime;
The next time a Pandora ad plays on my account:
Thanks for working with us on this.
I'm also getting Spanish ads on my stations. Any help??