It reported numbers as controversy swirls around Joe Rogan. PREVIOUSLY: Spotify said monthly active users rose 18% to 404 million for the fourth quarter of 2021 as premium subscribers hit 183 million and revenue grew 24%. Shares took a 17% nosedive in after-hours trading before settling, down about 10%. Wall Street wasn’t thrilled with its results or its forecasts, released after market close. Spotify has “a critical role to paly in balancing creative expression with the safety of our users,” he said. “This is being rolled out right now, while we are speaking,” he said. The content advisories directing listeners to a dedicated hub with resource and links to information about the virus. Spotify will also be tagging all Covid-19-related podcast episodes. “That’s on me.” Rogan will have to abide by the guidelines.

He reiterated them today, including “publishing its policies and making them clear to the world” – something he said Spotify should have done sooner anyway. “Usually, when we have had controversies in the past over months not days.”īut the founder clearly hopes steps Spotify announced Sunday will help it get past this. Will it have an impact? Ek said it’s too early to know.

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