Spotify has penned a new multi-year partnership deal with controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, whose enormously popular show will soon also be available on competing platforms, including YouTube and Apple Podcasts.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple's recently proposed changes to its App Store policies represent a "new low" for the tech giant. The Spotify boss, a constant critic of Apple's stranglehold on the marketplace for apps and the "tax" it places on in-app purchases, calls Apple's proposed changes "extortion, plain and simple."
Twister Sister singer Dee Snider said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek "should be taken out and shot" over what he believes is an unfair compensation for artists' music.