Podcast availability in Russia

[EazyE2]

When will podcasts be made available in Russia?

This is something that has been suggested and nothing has been done yet. So if any spotify employee responds to this, please don't say to make an idea and vote on it. Just please answer my question if this is a priority or not.

Because Joe Rogan will be exclusive to spotify on January 1, I expect it will happen before then.  If not, how will spotify provide us the full Joe Rogan library (which currently we can not access on Spotify)?

These are questions which should be easy to answer due to the global popularity of the Joe Rogan Experience and enormity of the spotify deal.

Thanks!

[Elena]

Hey there @EazyE2!

Thanks for reaching out to us and apologies for the delayed response, we just came across this thread.

We're afraid we're not able to give you any exact timeline for this right now and that's why we direct our users to the idea about this.

If you vote and subscribe to the idea you'll get a notification as soon as we have any news to share.

Let us know if there's anything else we can do for you. We'd be happy to help.

[EazyE2]

Can you provide Spotify users in Russia a direct link to where we can listen to the Joe Rogan Experience? From my understanding, the podcast is exclusive to Spotify; however Spotify doesn't offer podcasts in Russia.  There must be some way for us to legally listen to the Podcast via Spotify correct?  If not, the only option is to support the other sites that are able to provide the JRE podcast without Spotify's knowledge.