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EXPANDED PAYMENT OPTIONS

Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing

March 23, 2022

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Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership
with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a
first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities
for both consumers and developers.  

Users who've downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store will be
presented with a choice to pay with either Spotify's payment system
or with Google Play Billing. For the first time, these two options
will live side by side in the app. This will give everyone the
freedom to subscribe and make purchases using the payment option of
their choice directly in the Spotify app. Spotify will continue to
freely communicate with users about our Premium subscription service,
promote discounts and promotions, and give listeners on our Free tier
the ability to convert to Premium directly in the app. 

Over the coming months, Spotify will work with Google's product and
engineering teams to build this new experience, and we'll roll out in
countries around the world. Working together, the companies will test
and learn, jointly exploring product innovations across the Android
platform. We anticipate launching the first iteration of User Choice
Billing later this year.  

Spotify has been publicly advocating for platform fairness and
expanded payment options, among other things, because fair and open
platforms enable better consumer experiences and allow developers to
grow and thrive--when this happens everyone wins.

Alex Norstrom, Chief Freemium Business Officer, commented, "Spotify
is on a years-long journey to ensure app developers have the freedom
to innovate and compete on a level playing field. We're excited to be
partnering with Google to explore this approach to payment choice and
opportunities for developers, users, and the entire internet
ecosystem. We hope the work we'll do together blazes a path that will
benefit the rest of the industry." 

"Android has always been about openness and user choice," said Sameer
Samat, Vice President, Product Management at Google. "This step is an
important milestone for mobile app stores and I can't imagine a
better first partner than Spotify. They value choice as much as we do
and understand the importance and continued investment in Android and
Play to the health of the entire ecosystem. This is an exciting first
step and we look forward to adding new partners and learning how this
model could be expanded across the platform."

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