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Spotify Signs 'The Joe Rogan Experience' Podcast to Exclusive Multi-Year Deal
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I'm personally thrilled!
This means I won't have to see his show surface in my YouTube recommendations anymore.
It doesn't seem to matter how often I choose "not interested"...
I can't seem to permanently get rid of Rogan.
Thank you Spotify!
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Correct.
He has so many bad takes on so many issues that are way beyond his depth of knowledge.
It's honestly a little scary to see how many people rely on him as some type of almost "journalistic source" that they think is giving them great information.
That's really the start and end of all the reasoning and justification.
I don't blame him one bit (we'd all do it), but anything other than "massive payday" is just reverse quarterbacking and searching for some other rationale where one need not, and likely does not, exist.
This means I won't have to see his show surface in my YouTube recommendations anymore.
It doesn't seem to matter how often I choose "not interested"...
I can't seem to permanently get rid of Rogan.
Thank you Spotify!
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Correct.
He has so many bad takes on so many issues that are way beyond his depth of knowledge.
It's honestly a little scary to see how many people rely on him as some type of almost "journalistic source" that they think is giving them great information.
That's really the start and end of all the reasoning and justification.
I don't blame him one bit (we'd all do it), but anything other than "massive payday" is just reverse quarterbacking and searching for some other rationale where one need not, and likely does not, exist.
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It’s a podcast about MMA and DMT with a dose of conspiracies, politics and watching clips of animals killing other animals. Also MMA and DMT. Occasionally they’ll have a guest that you might recognize and the conversation might not involve the above but it probably will.
There is often some bad diet advice as well as uneducated takes on various subjects beyond the breadth of knowledge of both the host and the guest as well.
Not too many people realize a bulk of his pay and viewers are on YouTube. He’s afraid of playing other YouTube clips without getting a copyright strike. Google/YouTube demonization gotten worse this year. Just mentioning the word coronavirus or covid19 you can get demonetized. Joe say can say a lot of controversial stuff so he can get demonetized. So creators will be flagged and get a pay cut and no pay at all.
Rogan's podcast has been on Spotify for quite a while. Most top podcasts are already there. This deal only makes it exclusive to that site.
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Ha, ha. That is ridiculous. Not true. If it's attached to hate speech or a TOS violation, maybe, but I/m OK with that.
You will miss out. I guess you're simply unable to install and utilize another app...sorry to hear this. I'm glad the consistently most gifted and popular interviewer on the internet is getting paid well.
im not certain if this is the first of its kind, exclusive podcast content to a single platform. If it is it took a very long time to occur.
very glad Apple has not engaged in this and hopefully will never do so in the future.
I would guess the issue some have for switching between apps to listen to podcasts is specific to queuing various content sources to be played one after another during a jog, working out etc when switching apps then launching a stream or downloaded cast would be cumbersome at worse.
I just watched Joe for the first time. How the heck is he so popular? The guest was Musk who must have a reasonable level of intelligence to have done what he has done in the business world, but I was surprised how poorly he expresses himself, super short stumbling responses. He either banged his head on the way to the studio, had too much weed or is suffering from something else. He almost made Joe look intelligent. Just my opinions of course.
How much more of heat shock proteins, elk meat, Brazilian jui-jitsu, bowhunting, and kettle bells can listeners take before going insane? Cya joe.
Hard to say.
One risk of a user downloading Spotify to listen to a podcast is that he might then end up subscribing, which means Apple loses him as a potential Apple Music customer.
If Apple suspects they might stand to lose a substantial number of existing Apple Music subscribers who might end up defecting to Spotify for their exclusive podcasts, they might feel compelled to retaliate in kind to protect their turf.
I don’t know how this would work though. Currently, music and podcasts reside in separate apps on iOS, so a subscription service for podcasts looks like it would get messy and confusing very quickly.
It's funny how some of you are dismissing one of the most influential figures on social media right now.
His show/podcast is phenomenal and he's had countless people I am interested in on his show. Usually it's an enthralling 2-3 hours with each guest. In fact some people I've never heard of end up being a highly entertaining listen for 2-3 hours.
I have no interest in MMA so I don't tend to listen to his MMA podcasts, but some of the guests from the MMA world are always a great listen.
It's still going to be free so I don't understand what half of you are crying about. I can even get the Spotify app on my TV so I can watch the full show as normal as can most of you if you have a Smart TV. No biggy.
This is a massive blow to everyone but Spotify. They've pulled off a coup here and it will hurt YouTube which can only be a good thing.
His show/podcast is phenomenal and he's had countless people I am interested in on his show. Usually it's an enthralling 2-3 hours with each guest. In fact some people I've never heard of end up being a highly entertaining listen for 2-3 hours.
I have no interest in MMA so I don't tend to listen to his MMA podcasts, but some of the guests from the MMA world are always a great listen.
It's still going to be free so I don't understand what half of you are crying about. I can even get the Spotify app on my TV so I can watch the full show as normal as can most of you if you have a Smart TV. No biggy.
This is a massive blow to everyone but Spotify. They've pulled off a coup here and it will hurt YouTube which can only be a good thing.
Yeah you have to pay where you lay. Spotify chose to participate knowing the rules. The rules benefitted them gave them millions of dollars worth of exposure. Now when the rules don't bend to their greed they get upset.
They also were decrying Apple for having Music Exclusives and were retaliating against artists who did Music Exclusives with Apple. The point is they were being monopolistic themselves. Here is another show of that monopolistic behavior because even with 100 million listeners (60 million who are paying), Spotify can't turn a profit. I won't even bring up the fact that Apple has to make sure many of those listeners have their Spotify updates etc and that the platform works as expected so Spotify can continue to stay in the market despite losing hundreds of millions of dollars year after year.
"influence" ≠ "quality"
Most of us commenting have seen his show plenty and have an informed opinion of it.
Rogan's show is mostly questionably informed and over testoteroned "content".
The guests can be great, yes, the "Rogan" part is usually the problem.
Luckily these guests are almost always on many other shows as they usually are launching a product or have other reasons to be seeking some PR.
The funniest thing about Elon Musk in the last few years is finding out that he's just a stupid person. Like he's just dumb. He isn't even smart at one thing and dumb at others, he's just pure dumb.
Nerds all thought he was some kind of genius just because he was into nerd ****.