Neal Veglio
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2,822 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Neal Veglio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And if you want the full forensic version, go listen to that because he's done the actual legwork on this one.
Here's the shape of it.
Spotify are testing a thing called skip ahead.
They haven't announced it, it's just in the app.
App at this stage.
So here's how it works an ad break starts, you hear the sting, you know, the one like that little ACARS noise, the little chime that's basically Pavlov's bell for here comes a mattress sale.
And instantly this enormous button appears on screen and it says skip ahead.
And just one tap of that takes you to the end of the entire commercial break.
Now.
And people have already started doing the well, you've always been able to skip line.
And no, stop it.
Skipping fifteen seconds at a time is nine taps and a bit of overshoot.
Now hang on, is he still going?
And that is friction to hitting the button.
Friction is the only reason ad reads survive at all.
What Spotify have built removes that friction entirely, and then, and this is the really important bit.
Tells you.
When to press it?
That's not a skip function.
That's a recommendation.
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