Spotify Will ‘Pause’ Selling Political Ads In 2020 – By Sebastian Murdock (Huffington Post) / Dec 27 2019
Ex-White House press secretary and recent “Dancing With The Stars” loser Sean Spicer bashed about the new policy on Twitter.
Music streaming behemoth Spotify will suspend political ads starting in the new year.
The suspension “will include political advertising content in our ad-supported tier and in Spotify original and exclusive podcasts,” the platform said in a statement Friday as first reported by Ad Age.
The policy will be in effect only for the U.S., the only market on which the platform has sold political ads.
“At this point in time, we do not yet have the necessary level of robustness in our processes, systems and tools to responsibly validate and review this content,” the company said.
Spotify’s decision follows in the footsteps of Twitter, which announced in October that it would no longer allow political advertising on its platform.
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