Operator
Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Spotify First Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Bryan Goldberg, Head of Investor Relations at Spotify. Thank you. Please go ahead.
Bryan Goldberg
Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, and welcome to Spotify s first quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Joining us today will be Daniel Ek, our CEO and Paul Vogel, our CFO. We will start with opening comments from Daniel. And after the remarks, Daniel and Paul will be happy to answer your questions.
We will again be taking questions exclusively through slido. Questions can be submitted by going through slido.com, S-L-I-D-O.com and using the code #SpotifyEarningsQ121. Analysts can ask questions directly into slido and all participants can then vote on the questions they find the most relevant. We ll start by taking one question per analyst. Once everyone has had the oppo