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Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Article really goes out of its way to let you know why you're supposed to hate Joe Rogan... I think it's probably a good move for his bank account but will piss off a lot of his fans. I casually follow him on Youtube, just watching clips mostly but occasionally full interviews. I never use Spotify for spoken word or video---and I probably won't follow him there.

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Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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The comments here are insane. Why do HN readers have this defeatest attitude about absolutely everything?

One prominent podcaster takes his show to one of the most popular music streaming services on the planet and the reaction is really "this is the end of podcasting as we know it" ???

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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This might be a big thing. I think audio is kind of underused medium. We have podcasts, audio books and music, but there’s much more that could be done. Like radio theater, documentaries, talk shows. Professionally produced audio content can be really enjoyable experience. Production costs for audio stuff are less than for video. Our busy lives have limits for video consumption, but I think there’s still room for mor…

Not disagreeing too much, but I really think podcasts have a limited "parallelism" to them

Sure, you can do the dishes or go for a walk and listen to podcasts.

But it's impossible to do anything mildly intellectual or that requires some attention

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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The comments here are insane. Why do HN readers have this defeatest attitude about absolutely everything? One prominent podcaster takes his show to one of the most popular music streaming services on the planet and the reaction is really "this is the end of podcasting as we know it" ???

I think this is because it can't be listend to anywere but spotify. The excusivity is what I see many people are taking issue with

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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I probably will never watch it now since I don’t have a Spotify subscription and don’t need one. Is Spotify free for Podcasts?

Spotify has an ad-supported free tier. This will be available on that, along with all their other podcasts.

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this sad? To me it illustrates that there is a lot of value in Spotify as a delivery mechanism and that the existing channels are not working. If anything it should inspire creative new solutions to the issue.

If this were the case, wouldn't the podcasts would choose to use spotify on their own without having to be paid for it?

Value exists on both sides of the equation. Spotify wants people on their platform and will pay handsomly for an exclusive deal. Joe instantly gets prominent placement inside every Spotify installation on the earth, rock solid distribution and a partner to help market his content.

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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I don't listen to his show, but as a general podcast fan this is sad. This isn't the first podcast to move away from having a free and open feed of the show, but it is certainly the biggest and it opens the doors for a lot more exclusivity deals in the future.

Why is this sad? To me it illustrates that there is a lot of value in Spotify as a delivery mechanism and that the existing channels are not working. If anything it should inspire creative new solutions to the issue.

To the contrary. If Spotify was valuable as a delivery mechanism, it wouldn't need exclusives. People would use it voluntarily.

Re: Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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post #70

Article really goes out of its way to let you know why you're supposed to hate Joe Rogan... I think it's probably a good move for his bank account but will piss off a lot of his fans. I casually follow him on Youtube, just watching clips mostly but occasionally full interviews. I never use Spotify for spoken word or video---and I probably won't follow him there.

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> at every opportunity

This is some The Onion level shit

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