Remove podcast ads (including host reads) for uninterrupted listening

Remove podcast ads (including host reads) for uninterrupted listening targets a $16.7B = 464M monthly podcast listeners × $36 ARPU per year total addressable market with high saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 20% YoY — IAB/PwC and Edison Research report ongoing double-digit growth in podcast listenership and ad spend.

Key trends driving demand: Strong consumer willingness to pay for ad-free media — this creates pricing leverage for audio subscriptions.; Improved speech-to-text and audio-segmentation models — these reduce false positives and enable near-real-time sponsor detection.; Creator monetization fragmentation — creators offer paid tiers but listeners prefer a single ad-free subscription across shows, opening an aggregator opportunity.; Privacy concerns about ad-targeting are increasing — privacy-first ad removal and offline processing can be a selling point..