That's probably the reason why they will go non-exclusive now. He made a ton of money with the exclusive contract, but lost a lot of its relevance by limiting his audience to Spotify users.
All this shit is getting forced on us by corporate bootlickers in an effort to change our culture for the far worse from the top down. They will ultimately fail but we have a lot to lose in the process
Crazy how a large company like Spotify is willing to give so much money to a "right wing idiot". Oh that's right, its because people like the perspectives given on his show more than the perspective they see on TV or any other form of mass media (overwhelmingly liberal perspective).
Sure, big underserved audience of other right wing idiots out there, I don't think the business sense of the matter was really what Dave was taking issue with. Did you read it that way for some reason?
In other words his listeners tune in because he tells them what they want to hear. He one of Spotify’s most popular kool-aid mixologists. And Spotify is thrilled with all that, because, well, we all know. $$$
I’m not sure exactly. I do know Spotify bones artists on streams. You get no royalties on a song before it hits a few thousand streams. After that, I think it’s (don’t quote me on this) like .03 cent per stream.
Did it not occur to Spotify execs that they could replace Rogan with an AI that reads aloud from random GeoCities pages, punctuated with saying "Woah, that's crazy. I didn't know that!"
This right-wing heist of everything “Life” is gonna end up bringing everything crashing down. Funny thing is they think being “bubble”-wrapped will somehow let their lives continue to be normal while the house is crashing down around them. Fucking idiots.
Joe Rogan has a controversial podcast and he invites some people that are dogshit crazy, but I wouldn‘t agree that he is a right wing idiot, a hatemongerer or worse. He knows how to sell his character as „turbo-libertarian“. I enjoyed a few of his shows myself. Just skip the Alex Jones type guests.
Joe Rogan is too stupid to have anything you and I would recognize as an ideology. He's just a sponge for crackpot bullshit people bring him and believes whatever he last heard. He's a useful idiot for right wing grifters.
You have a point. If you let idiots exploit your range for the sake of attention an money, you're probably one, too. If I knew him personally I'd definetly hold that against him.
Honestly at this stage people need to understand that if you’re not actually giving an artist money directly in exchange for something real (a digital download, a vinyl record, a shirt, a ticket) they’re not getting paid.
Pirating almost exclusively harms massive predatory corporations these days.
CLOSE UP: Joe Rogan. SLOW ZOOM OUT TO REVEAL: Tears cascading down his cheeks. CONTINUE ZOOM OUT: He is spooning muscle mass powder from an enormous open container into his mouth. ZOOM OUT: He is sitting in the middle of a warehouse filled with millions of muscle mass containers. He is alone.
Oligarchs' playbook for centuries- steal from creatives and laborers then promote fascists. They make even more money and increase their control of the masses.
Here's hoping 'up to' is doing a shitload of work. Did they even get their money's worth from the last deal? Not my problem, I guess. Can't help thinking of what else that could've been spent on, though.
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fuck spotify, pay artists
Oh, wait, no. I wasn't subscribed to Spotify to begin with, because Spotify can kiss my ass.
And now it's both cheeks.
My son just got paid by Spotify! $8.12.
The cost savings!
Used to be a fun podcast, now I have zero interest. No big loss.
I still pay for Sirius, so that & YouTube are where I get my music. I use Spotify free to share playlists.
Someone says something you don’t like and poof, they’re wrong?
That’s not how anything works.
Stump’s take on Rogan is correct. He can say PLENTY of dumb stuff, but he is far from “right wing”.
Don’t confuse your opinions with facts. Especially when poorly informed.
That was a problem FAR before their deal with Rogan.
And a problem with most large tech companies.
And all the users ,too
Just like X.
Stay away, don't give them advertising money
Pirating almost exclusively harms massive predatory corporations these days.
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Joe has endorsed nearly EVERY social/economic plan Bernie ran on.
Universal Healthcare
Universal Basic Income
Free College Tuition
Not very “right wing”.
https://youtu.be/2O-iLk1G_ng?si=Hbo0gyyw2MJNwGm7
Most intelligent people can have nuanced opinions on a variety of topics, rather than following a herd universally.
Most people who hate him formed opinions on sound bites.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ve7ccl3YrHU?si=rcpA2iswq4B3yff-