CommonX Podcast Departs Spotify as Hosting Platform
Curb Fail Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The CommonX Podcast has formally ended its relationship with Spotify as a hosting platform.
This decision reflects a values-based choice.
CommonX was created to amplify human voices — artists, musicians, thinkers, and everyday people — not to exist as a passive asset within systems that creators increasingly feel exploit, suppress, or disregard them.
After becoming informed of serious and growing concerns regarding Spotify’s treatment of artists, the erosion of creator trust, and ethical questions surrounding the platform’s leadership and broader financial interests, we concluded that our work should no longer be hosted there.
To be unequivocally clear:
CommonX Podcast will not be exploited to fund war, normalize violence, or indirectly support industries that profit from human suffering. Nor will our platform participate in systems that silence, penalize, or algorithmically suppress artists and independent voices.
While Spotify as a company may not directly engage in warfare or censorship, the values signaled by leadership decisions and platform behavior matter — especially in creative spaces built on expression, dissent, and culture.
We believe artists deserve:
Fair treatment and transparency
Protection from arbitrary removal or suppression
Platforms that respect creativity as human, not disposable
This is not an act of outrage. This is not performative virtue.
It is a refusal to be complicit.
CommonX will continue publishing on platforms that align with our belief that culture should never be collateral damage, and that art should never be reduced to an algorithmic resource.
We invite listeners to follow us directly through our website and supported platforms as we continue building an independent, human-first media space.
Culture doesn’t survive on convenience alone. It survives on conscience.
— Ian Primmer & Jared Mayzak
Co-Hosts, CommonX Podcast
A Gen-X Media Platform
