Yes there's ads, but they're weird. They're ad reads that Joe does. And when the ads start, the "time duration scrubber" at the bottom of Spotify changes and al

Yes there's ads, but they're weird. They're ad reads that Joe does. And when the ads start, the "time duration scrubber" at the bottom of Spotify changes and allows you to just pull the scrubber to the end of the ad read. So unlike the rest of Spotify's ads (for music) you can skip these ads.