Overview
- Spotify says there are no ICE ads currently running and states the placements stopped at the end of 2025 when the federal campaign wrapped.
- Company representatives declined to rule out similar ads in the future, saying any new campaigns would be evaluated under existing advertising policies.
- The confirmation followed renewed scrutiny after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, though Spotify says the ads ended weeks earlier.
- Advocacy group Indivisible and numerous artists pressed Spotify to drop the ads and update its policies, with boycotts and open letters intensifying in recent months.
- The ads, which offered $50,000 signing bonuses, were part of a broader government hiring push that ran across major platforms; reporting indicated Spotify received about $74,000 while Meta and Google/YouTube received far larger sums.