Despite the backlash, Spotify saw its paid memberships increase, and the platform now has 182 million premium subscribers — up from 180 million in the previous quarter and 15% higher year over year, the company said in its first quarter earnings report Wednesday. Total revenue was up 24% over last year.
Those numbers are roughly in line with what the company said it was expecting in terms of growth. In fact, Spotify noted that it would have done even better had it not pulled out of Russia in April"Excluding the impact of our exit from Russia, subscriber growth exceeded expectations," the company said.
So although Rogan may have caused a massive PR headache for the company, Spotify didn't experience a mass exodus because of him — at least not from those who pay for the service.told Spotify to pull their music from the platform because of COVID comments made on Rogan's show. "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both," Young said at the time.
As for Rogan, he responded to the situation at the time by saying "he's not trying to promote misinformation." More recently, the host claimed he had a subscriber boost because of the uproar. "It's interesting, but my subscriptions went up massively. That's what's crazy," Rogan said on an episode earlier this month. "During the height of it all, I gained two million subscribers."
“Insert authoritarian X name here” caused some to flee “country Y run by X”. But not those who paid X did not flee. Is stating this really news without background of how twisted it is?
That's just plain common sense. Rogan is a breath of fresh air.
Woke=DMT
Woke=Broke fact
2% got angry and 98% just don't give a f***.
Great Job Joe! Keep up the good work!
'Notable meathead Joe Rogan beats aging woke boomers at internet.'
'Artists' lol
pay for what?
Can’t get enough of Joe.
Joe is such a neat and chill guy. I bet it would be cool to be his neighbour. I would totally let him borrow and shovel or a rake because I know in my heart of hearts he would return them cleaner than I lent them to him.
Of course customers didn't leave. Rogan is a complete and utter moron so I just don't listen to his shitty podcast. Spotify has the best user interface of any music streaming app and people will stay for that.
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