Spotify paid greater than $100 million to podcasts within the first quarter, together with Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper and Theo Von

Spotify stated Monday it paid greater than $100 million to podcast publishers and podcasters international within the first quarter of 2025.

The determine contains creators at the platform throughout all codecs and assurances, together with the platform’s greatest fish, Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper and Theo Von, the corporate stated.

Rogan, host of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Cooper of “Call Her Daddy” and “This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von” had been a few of the top podcasts on Spotify globally in 2024.

Rogan and Cooper’s exclusivity do business in with Spotify have ended, and day Rogan signed a pristine Spotify offer utmost era use as much as $250 million, together with income sharing and the facility to publish on YouTube, Cooper inked a SiriusXM offer in August.

Even if displays are not unique to Spotify, they’re nonetheless uploaded to the platform and qualify for the Spotify Partner Program, which introduced in January within the U.S., U.Okay., Canada and Australia.

This system permits creators to earn income each and every hour an advert monetized through Spotify performs within the episode, in addition to income from when Top class subscribers keep watch dynamic commercials on movies.

Competing platform Patreon said it paid out upward of $472 million to podcasters from greater than 6.7 million paid memberships in 2024.

YouTube’s payouts are immense through comparability however come with extra than simply podcasts. The corporate stated it paid $70 billion to creators between 2021 and 2024 with payouts emerging each and every era, in line with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

Spotify reviews first-quarter profits on Tuesday.