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Spotify's defense of running U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruitment ads, and the subsequent artist backlash and public criticism
confirmed that it is no longer running recruitment advertisements on its platform, saying the campaign ended at the close of 2025 and “there are currently no ICE ads running on Spotify” . The move fol...
Spotify accepted and ran U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment advertisements during 2025 as part of a broader government campaign, and it now says those ads are no longer running...
is not currently running ICE recruitment advertisements: the company confirmed the campaign concluded at the end of 2025 and said “there are currently no ICE ads running on Spotify” . That factual pau...
in 2025 in protest of the platform running recruitment ads and other company controversies; named acts who publicly cited the ads or were reported as leaving include , , , , , , and several rock/metal...
did run recruitment advertisements during 2025, a fact confirmed by multiple outlets and by Spotify itself, but the company says those specific ads stopped running at the end of 2025; Spotify has not ...
has publicly said the recruitment spots are no longer running because the campaign ended, but has not announced a change to its advertising policy; the company has repeatedly defended that the ads did...
A notable cohort of primarily indie and alternative acts publicly removed or requested removal of their music from Spotify in 2025–26 in protest over the platform running U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
limits more narrowly than many big tech rivals — permitting political ads primarily in the , requiring advertiser identity verification, and funneling buys through direct sales and specific inventorie...
is the only streaming company in the provided reporting that explicitly confirmed recruitment advertisements were no longer running on its service after the government campaign expired in late 2025, s...
are but to rewrite its advertising rules: and recruitment campaigns for , codify permanent prohibitions on such ads, increase transparency about government ad buys, and strengthen protections against ...
The ICE recruitment advertising campaign that ran on Spotify was part of a broader U.S. government push that began appearing on major platforms in October 2025 and concluded at the end of 2025, meanin...
Artists and advocacy groups have demanded that Spotify remove and bar U.S. government recruitment advertisements — chiefly ICE and DHS spots — and to rewrite its ad rules to prohibit “government propa...