Spotify is running ads recruiting agents for ICE, the federal agency charged with mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. These ads target vulnerable populations, promise signing bonuses, and normalize racial profiling, fear and intimidation in our neighborhoods.
Spotify claims these ads comply with their policy, but the truth is streaming hate is not neutral. It’s a choice.
We refuse to fund it. We refuse to ignore it.
Our Demands for Spotify
Until our demands are met, we will withhold our subscriptions and our support. We are calling on Spotify founder and current CEO Daniel Ek, as well as Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström who will become the new co-CEOs starting in January 2026, to:
- Immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts with Spotify.
- Spotify must update its Advertising Policy to prohibit government propaganda and hate-based recruitment campaigns.
- Spotify must commit to defending civil rights and standing up for communities under threat from authoritarian actions.
What You Can Do
We are asking every listener and artist to take three key actions:
- Cancel your Spotify subscription, TODAY until the ICE ads are removed.
- Tag Spotify publicly and urge artists, podcasters, and labels to denounce these ads and oppose the platform complicity.
- Use our social media toolkit to post online.
Alternative Music Streaming Services
If you want to continue streaming music while standing against ICE ads, consider platforms that are not running ICE recruitment ads such as:
Tidal: tidal.com
- Artist-owned, transparent royalty model, and no record of hosting ICE or DHS recruitment campaigns.
Apple Music: music.apple.com
- Operates under strict ad-placement standards and does not run third-party government recruitment ads.
Disclaimer: Indivisible is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in a corporate partnership with Tidal, Apple Music, or any other streaming platform. We are recommending these services solely as alternatives that, to our knowledge, do not air ICE recruitment ads.
Don’t Have Spotify? Here’s How You Can Help
Don’t have a Spotify account? Here’s how you can join us in pressuring Spotify to stop airing ICE ads:
- Use Indivisible’s pre-made social posts to support the Cancel Spotify campaign online. Post to all your favorite social networks to raise awareness of Spotify’s complicity, our campaign, and how to cancel.
- Urge artists, podcasters, and labels to publicly denounce these ads and pressure Spotify leadership. If you know anyone who creates music or content for Spotify, please reach out to them directly. If you don’t, use social media to publicly call on your favorite artists to join the fight.
Profit-driven media giants and their billionaire owners seem to think that going along with the authoritarian Trump regime is the easy thing. They’re following the profits and painting it as neutrality.
But in the face of an unjust regime, neutrality is complicity.
Please join our campaign to send Spotify a message that power still belongs with the people. Don’t stream fascism. Cancel Spotify.