and Anchor, two podcast startups, in February 2019. Long before the Rogan deal, Spotify had expressed interest in expanding its podcast business. Read this next: UK watchdog launches study into streaming services with “excessive power”

They told The New York Times that Spotify and Rogan actually had a deal worth around $200 million dollars that spans three and a half years.Īccording to a former Spotify employee who spoke to Pitchfork anonymously, the deal was for more than $200 million.

However, according to “two people familiar with the details of the transaction” - this deal was actually double what it was originally reported. Read this next: Spotify removes shuffle option from albums Rogan was said to have received $100 million as part of the transaction at the time. Spotify announced a licence agreement with Joe Rogan in May 2020, permitting him to deliver his hugely successful podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, exclusively on the streaming service. On Tuesday, a week before the Presidential election, Rogan had controversial Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the podcast, and they touched on hot button topics such as Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Bill Gates vaccine conspiracy theory.Joe Rogan's Spotify deal is allegedly double what was originally reported, claim sources from Spotify. The employees also demanded the ability to add trigger warnings, corrections, and references to fact-checked articles on topics discussed by Rogan in the course of his multi-hour discussions.” “That would include the ability to directly edit or remove sections of upcoming interviews, or block the uploading of episodes deemed problematic. Spotify employees were demanding direct editorial oversight over the recently-acquired Joe Rogan Experience podcast,” Digital Music News reported. That drew accusations of transphobia from a contingent of LGTBQ+ Spotify employees, who reportedly demanded changes in more than ten separate meetings with Spotify upper management. Just last month Rogan was heavily criticized for booking controversial writer Abigail Shrier which led to angry Spotify employees threatening to strike unless they got editorial control of the JRE podcast.ĭuring the episode, Shrier sharply questioned whether extremely young women should be undergoing gender-transition operations, treatments, and therapies, while also questioning whether many of these women are genuinely trans or simply seeking acceptance and validation. It appears that Joe Rogan is getting canceled by the Internet again.

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