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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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Post by nebula8804 »

ganoushoreilly wrote: post #25
tomjakubowski wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Spotify the only source of revenue from his podcast? I don't listen to JRE, but this thread suggests he's still running third-party ads on the show. Presumably then he's still getting some portion of that $30M/year on top of what Spotify pays him. > Spotify doesn’t play or include ads that interrupt the listening experience of Premium subscribers. However, some podcast creators may include third-party advertising,…

Not only does he run the ads (though I suspect spotify reaps those benefits), they're randomly inserting them in the podcast now and it's annoying. Sometimes it's mid sentence. Annoying to both pay for spotify and get hammered with ads. Granted I pay for the music, but it's still annoying as all.

Its even worse, up until a few weeks ago, you could rip his podcasts using youtube-dl. I am paying for a subscription to support him but ripping his podcasts and throwing away their garbage app in favor of Jellyfin. Now they have begun encrypting his podcasts with Widevine. :/

Since I still have to listen to ads, i'm thinking of just dropping the subscription and hoping there becomes a method to break this Widevine trash. I encounter a bug with their app on a daily basis and I am tired of it. From what I gather, there are different levels of Widevine encryption that limit video quality but the lower levels are crackable. I hope someone smarter than me tries the crack on the JRE podcast.

Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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Post by qwertyuiop_ »

>To do this, we pulled data from the analytics tool Social Blade to track the Twitter following of every guest who went on Rogan’s podcast between December 2019 and July 2021. Guests generally see a surge of new followers after appearing on the show, with some gaining as many as 18,000 new followers in the week following their chat, and that effect has grown over time as The Joe Rogan Experience gained popularity.

This is based on post show Twitter following of the guests. What if his loyal listeners are not into Twitter and are leaving.

Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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Post by Graffur »

xutopia wrote: post #48

To be fair... his move to Spotify coincided with him spewing more and more anti-vax and anti-mask drivel that I don't have any interest in listening to.

I listen to him on Spotify and this is just incorrect. The use of the word 'spew' indicates you might have an agenda.

Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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Post by blackshaw »

bb123 wrote: post #55
beezischillin wrote: post #35

I stopped watching purely due to the Spotify deal. I was willing to give it a try until I saw that they were memoryholing episodes. I might be in the minority here but it felt like a betrayal. If he wanted more money he could’ve invested in his own platform like many others and people would’ve followed. There’s plenty of other content in the sea.

What does memoryholing mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole

Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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Post by president »

xutopia wrote: post #48

To be fair... his move to Spotify coincided with him spewing more and more anti-vax and anti-mask drivel that I don't have any interest in listening to.

Calling people anti-vax and anti-mask when they clearly aren't is no different from bullying. By the way, there are plenty of scientists from top institutions like Stanford and even Nobel Prize winners who have spoken against many of the mainstream Covid narratives. Not sure how people like you with no medical domain expertise and experience have the gall to question valid concerns from respected doctors and scientists.

EDIT: Downvoted for pointing out smearing/bullying and dropping factual information. @dang - is this what HN is about? This has got to change.

Re: Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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Post by kbenson »

kristjank wrote: post #67
ceejayoz wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotify didn't bring over the old episodes with people like Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes, and Milo Yiannopoulos. > “There were a few episodes they didn’t want on their platform,” Rogan said, per DMN. “And I was like, ‘OK, I don’t care.'” https://www.thewrap.com/spotify-deletes-joe-rogan-podcast-ep...

Shame. Not to condone these people, but since getting along with everyone was Joe Rogan's thing, I think they should've embraced it. But Joe was most likely not glad to preserve that part of his career either, otherwise I assume he would protest.

$100 million is a lot of incentive to not protest. The line between actually important and kinda important gets really well defined when you throw that much money on the table.
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