Joe Rogan, podcasting’s biggest star, has renewed his deal with Spotify. The new multiyear deal will allow his show, which is currently exclusive to the streamer, to be distributed to YouTube, Apple, and other podcasting platforms.
762 sats \ 4 replies \ @DEADBEEF OP 2 Feb
Glad to see he will no longer be locked behind the Spotify app. IMO if you can’t get a podcast through RSS it shouldn’t be called a podcast.
I wonder what Spotify gets out of the deal though since people won’t have to access it through their platform anymore?
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193 sats \ 0 replies \ @based 2 Feb
It's literally not a podcast if it's not an audio file available for download for you to listen to as you please and with an RSS or Atom feed as an interface.
Spotify is following the "embrace, extend, and extinguish" playbook in their attempt to kill podcasting for their benefit. It's a great thing it failed.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 2 Feb
I always thought it would've just been better to release the whole thing for free and have a "Powered by Spotify" watermark on the screen.
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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Feb
The article describes that Spotify receive the right to place ads in Rogan's podcast.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @konstantin21 2 Feb
they get a cut of advertising revenue from what I've seen
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291 sats \ 1 reply \ @MerryOscar 2 Feb
Joe Rogan coming to Fountain and Open RSS - love to see it!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 4 Feb
He was about to go the way of Howard Stern. I honestly haven't nearly watched enough JRE since his live youtube days.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DudeJLebowski 3 Feb
They know that people are habit-forming. They have accessed it for so long on Spotify that most will continue to do so.
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