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

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

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

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

Rogan and Cooper’s exclusivity offers with Spotify have ended, and whilst Rogan signed a brand new Spotify deal final 12 months price as much as $250 million, together with income sharing and the facility to submit on YouTube, Cooper inked a SiriusXM deal in August.

Even when 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.Ok., Canada and Australia.

The program permits creators to earn income each and every time an advert monetized by way of Spotify performs within the episode, in addition to income when Premium subscribers watch dynamic advertisements on movies.

Competing platform Patreon mentioned it paid out over $472 million to podcasters from over 6.7 million paid memberships in 2024.

YouTube’s payouts are large by way of comparability however come with extra than simply podcasts. The corporate mentioned it paid $70 billion to creators between 2021 and 2024 with payouts emerging each and every 12 months, in keeping with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

Spotify experiences first-quarter income on Tuesday.