Spotify is ramping up the live shows scheduled on its Spotify Greenroom live-audio app. It has just announced a deal with Complex Networks.
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Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem heats up over racial-slur usage
Rogan and Spotify have both responded to the release of a video of Rogan using the N-word racial slur more than 20 times.
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Spotify CEO: ‘Our policies are still something we stand behind’
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek made a speech to employees about the Joe Rogan / Neil Young row, outlining the changes already announced, and defending its policies.
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Spotify ended 2021 with 406m active users and 180m subscribers
Spotify’s latest financial results reveal that it ended 2021 with 406 million monthly active users (MAUs) and 180 million premium subscribers.
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Joe Rogan row latest: India Arie, Science Vs…
We haven’t seen any of the platform’s biggest music stars follow Neil Young’s lead and remove their music, but Young’s former bandmate Graham Nash has done so, as has artist India Arie.
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Spotify publishes platform rules as Joe Rogan row snowballs
Where to start with the latest developments in the row over Spotify, Joe Rogan, Covid-19 misinformation and Neil Young’s decision to remove his music from the streaming service?
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Spotify rivals aim to capitalise on Neil Young music removal
We’ve already seen Apple Music tweet out “It’s always a good idea to stream @NeilYoungNYA” with a link to his ‘Essentials’ playlist on its service.
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Spotify will pull Neil Young’s music over Joe Rogan row
Earlier this week Neil Young asked for his music to be removed from Spotify in protest at the platform’s indulgence of podcaster Joe Rogan’s views.
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Spotify could lose Neil Young’s music over Covid-19 misinformation
Neil Young is fed up with Spotify’s role in enabling podcaster Joe Rogan to spread Covid-19 misinformation through his show.
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The Verge suggests podcaster Joe Rogan is ‘losing influence’
Joe Rogan has taken a lot of criticism in recent years: over his vaccine views, his choice of guests and so on. The latest criticism may hurt the most however.
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Joe Rogan vaccine advice overshadows Spotify podcast subs launch
Spotify has launched its paid subscriptions for podcasters in the US, but the launch is being overshadowed by the latest controversy around its star signing Joe Rogan. “If you’re like 21 […]
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Spotify can’t just shrug off the latest Joe Rogan controversy
“A few people tweeting that they’re cancelling their Spotify subscriptions does not a firestorm make,” we wrote in our news bulletin yesterday, about the initial responses to Alex Jones guesting on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Well, later that day the flames began to spread, as major media outlets picked up on Jones’s appearance despite his own podcast having been removed from Spotify.
BuzzFeed also had a scoop: an internal memo from Spotify’s general counsel Horacio Gutierrez giving fellow executives ‘talking points’ to use if they were pressed on the topic.