Earlier this year, Spotify found itself embroiled in a controversy sparked by one of its most notable podcast hosts, Joe Rogan; Despite the backlash, Spotify saw its paid memberships increase.
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."
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