> Listeners won’t have to pay to access the episodes, but they will have to become Spotify users. Spotify said in a press release that Rogan retains creative control over his show. It didn’t disclose how much it spent on the deal. The company will also work with an ad agency to jointly sell ads against the program. Rogan said last year his show reached about 190 million downloads a month.<p>What an unfortunate ending to JRE for me. A show that used to be sponsored by flesh-light and filmed in Joe's living room is now a celebrity talk show hosted in a walled garden.<p>Huge props to Joe and Young Jamie for growing it into this behemoth but sucks to see them turn their back on free publishing/consuming model of podcasting.
While most people whine: How long before he would potentially get canceled on YT anyway? YT is a terrible place for content creators, and almost all people I watch complain about it, but can't really do much about it since it's a monopoly. I for one am happy to see some diversification and competition in the space.
> podcast<p>If it's exclusive to Spotify, it's not a podcast anymore. That's fine, but it's just not a podcast, it's a show on Spotify.
Spotify is terrible for podcasts. It clearly is a music player first and podcast player second - someone thought since both are just audio streams why not do both?
I mostly blame YouTube for the move... Anyone that doesn't seem to be towing the line of the major network/content sources seems to be losing a lot of advertising, and it's not really surprising to see this.<p>I'm running an android tv and watched his shows, or at least clips pretty regularly. I'm actually surprised there aren't bitchute and other video options for Android TV (not sure about firetv or apple). Youtube is the 600# gorilla and needs to be brought back down to size.<p>I don't blame creators for exploring other options... not everyone can get a fat check from spotify... I also wonder if this will still have video?
Despite already being a customer, I find this disheartening.<p>In my mind, this is the real headline: Spotify paid millions to harm our right to choose where we consume content.<p>Music services have so far avoided the library fragmentation and exclusivity wars that soured streaming video. You can generally get all music on all services. Spotify was big enough to keep Apple Music from getting too hostile in this space, but they've lived long enough to become the villain.
This makes me incredibly sad: not that we are losing Rogan's show, but that Adtech is finally absorbing the last type of media that was truly Free.
FWIW, you can share a Spotify family with 5 other people. You don’t need to be a family. Just to tell Spotify that you do live at the same address. You don’t even have to know each other, and can live in different countries.<p>You can also use a vpn (turkey is a good location but there are others) and tada every plan is now a fraction of what it costs in your actual locale. And it’s like Netflix, the country you use it in defines the content you have access to, not the country you’re subscribed in.<p>I ditched Spotify a long time ago, their player is garbage imo, music quality is subpar, and they’re missing a lot of what I listen to. But I’d you’re going to cave and give them your money reluctantly because you can’t live without this podcast then this somewhat makes you feel you’re still sticking it to the man.
Just goes to show you how important content is. In this case it's even more important than features and code for me.<p>This Saturday I'm going to sit down and spend half an hour:
1. Cancelling Apple Music
2. Installing Spotify
3. Signing up for Spotify
4. Resubscribing to not just this podcast, but the other 10 I have subscribed to.<p>I've stayed on Apple Music for _years_ because I was just too lazy to switch. There's no way I'll pay for both Apple Music and Spotify though.<p>Great move Spotify. I have to applaude this even though you're adding an extra errand to my day.
I've avoided Spotify for all these years because it always felt like it was part of the Facebook / Apple universe, which I generally find annoying. But I love Joe so I thought in preparation for this move, I'll go ahead and sign up, not wanting to be a sourpuss about it. Sure enough, I could sign up with Facebook, or with Apple (but not Google etc), or the old-fashioned way with email and password. I filled out the nosy little signup form and the next step was to install an app on my computer! No chance.
Perhaps a sign of things to come, podcasts, like RSS and feeds will eventually just be something you'll find exclusive on a dominant web platform. Sucks.
I wish this stupid podcast would die already. It's a podcast in which misinformation is spread at a massive scale, under the guise of "I'm just asking questions". The initial quirky, fun nature of this podcast died out a few years ago, and it has been coasting on its past success for the recent past. I wonder who will be the next Joe Rogan?
This is blogspam from Vox media.<p>Link to actual announcement: <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1262812859983151104?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1262812859983151104?s=20</a>
So the Spotify earnings/share in 1Q'20 are -$0.22. They're spending $100 mil on this deal. Does this make any business sense? I can hear echoes of AOL/Time Warner.
January: WWIII<p>February: Australia on fire<p>March: World Pandemic/ Global economic collapse<p>April: Murder hornets<p>May: Joe sells out<p>Whew. Fuck 2020.
dupe: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239304" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239304</a><p>although this thread is older and that second one is linking to "tech crotches" of the web