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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 meowface »

laurent92 wrote: post #114
pleb_nz wrote: post #74

8m not sure how his podcasts were distributed previously, but I would have thought a more multiplatform approach would work better long term. A lot of people don't have Spotify, I'm one of those, for the same price as Spotify I can get YouTube premium for me and the extended family, kill all ads, allow downloads and access to a decent music streaming catalog. Last time I checked the prices were not to dissimilar.

I think he was promised $100m for the Spotify exclusivity. No multiplatform works better than $100m ;)

Apparently it was a bigger number than that, though the exact number isn't known.

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

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Post by anm89 »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #30
anm89 wrote: post #4

Im sure the money was more than enough for him to feel compensated

Yeah it’s not like Joe’s goal in life was to influence people. Dude wants to make a living talking to people, which he’s achieved 100fold

I agree. I don't think influence isn't important to him but I don't think he is in it for world domination.

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

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Post by kelnos »

Clubber wrote: post #76
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 don't think that's accurate. Do you have some links or anything to back that up? Like actual transcripts, not some media interpretation. "People say, do you think it's safe to get vaccinated? I've said, yeah, I think for the most part it's safe to get vaccinated. I do. I do," Rogan said on the podcast. "But if you're like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I'll go no. Are you healthy? Are you…

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

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Post by JxLS-cpgbe0 »

I_cape_runts wrote: post #136
JxLS-cpgbe0 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> should I get vaccinated? I'll go no. Yes that's anti-vax. We get vaccinated not just to protect ourselves from death, but also to protect those around us by reducing the transmission of disease.

False. The vaccinated can and do transmit the disease. Vaccination only protects you. It doesn’t protect others around you.

It reduces the chance of transmission. That's how it protects others...

> Vaccination only protects you

False. Vaccinated people can still get sick, and vaccination reduces the spread of disease, protecting people that aren't you.

http://cdc.org/

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

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Post by vannevar »

psyc wrote: post #22
vannevar wrote: post #21

It's questionable whether online 'influencers' actually influence anyone beyond getting them to watch or listen to their show. What they definitely have is an audience, and that is valuable to the advertisers and marketers who do influence people, as well as prospective guests who want to promote themselves or a cause. I think influencers' main value for advertisers is acting as a magnet for certain demographics, pro…

Well, there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28302725

Maybe Joe's viewers will all start doing stand-up. :-)

There was a marketing study of influencers from Rakuten Marketing that indicates that advertising through influencer channels produces positive sales results. But again, it's not clear that the influencer actually drove the purchases, versus just drawing an audience that was predisposed to make those purchases in the first place.

https://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Rakuten-2019-...

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

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Post by rattlesnakedave »

orange_puff wrote: post #128

Maybe all good things simply need to come to an end. I feel like he basically has boomer politics now and the same predictable opinion over and over can get old. My brother said something that I think is true; Joe seems like the kind of guy who believes whatever the last person he spoke to said, so after moving to Austin he's become more conservative.

>all good things simply need to come to an end I think this is the crux of it. After >1600 episodes, how much is there left to say?

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

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Post by kelnos »

I_cape_runts wrote: post #136
JxLS-cpgbe0 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> should I get vaccinated? I'll go no. Yes that's anti-vax. We get vaccinated not just to protect ourselves from death, but also to protect those around us by reducing the transmission of disease.

False. The vaccinated can and do transmit the disease. Vaccination only protects you. It doesn’t protect others around you.

It's more nuanced than that. Prior to the delta variant, there was strong evidence that the vaccines also prevented you from being a carrier of the virus in most cases.

The calculus with delta is different, as it does seem that vaccinated people can spread delta. But the severity of that spread, as well as the amount of time a vaccinated person can spread it, is certainly lower than that of an unvaccinated person.

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