Rogan’s rollout on the platform created negative press seen by Wall Street.
What’s more, Rogan is licensing his content to Spotify and retaining ownership - with a hands-off relationship. Rogan is arguably Spotify’s biggest podcaster and a major investment in Spotify’s push to become an all-in-one audio platform. The situation is made trickier by Rogan’s high profile. Kelly, XXXTentacion and Tay-K were removed from Spotify’s editorial and recommendation algorithms, a way of keeping offensive content but hiding it from plain sight. The next year, it announced a new policy for hateful content but quickly walked back a provision many people believed cast too wide a net. Spotify removed music from multiple groups deemed to be racist “hate bands” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Music has the occasional run-in with streaming services’ censors. In Rogan’s case, his broad choices of guests and multi-hour, freewheeling conversations inherently have a greater chance to offend than shorter, scripted podcasts owned by Spotify. Popular podcaster Dave Rubin also received criticism for hosting right-wing commentators such as Alex Jones and Laura Southern. On the other hand, in a talk format, A-list podcasters have more opportunities to have controversial statements or guests.
The Rogan catalog dust-up reveals the delicate balance a streaming service must strike with its content and policies, especially as they increasingly use podcasts in their long-term strategies. Mainstream music is rarely hateful. The losses continued this morning as Apple and Netflix fell 8.1% and 5.6%, respectively. Netflix sank 3.5% and ended the day down just 0.7%. Yesterday, Apple shares fell as much as 5.3% before closing the day down just 2%. Investors also pulled back on some other tech stocks - though not to the same degree as Spotify. What Will It Take for Spotify's Joe Rogan Deal to Pay Off? Spotify did not respond to Billboard’s request for comment. News of the missing podcast was first reported by Entertainment Weekly. Jones’s and Yiannopoulos’s reputation precedes them as both are banned from both Twitter and Facebook for abusive behavior. Johnson and Gavin McInnes, as well as comedian Chris D’Elia, charged by five women for alleged sexual harassment and improprieties. Come Tuesday, not all of his prior podcasts showed up.Īmong the guests Spotify left out are politically far-right guests such as Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Charles C. His podcast was not available on Spotify until Tuesday. Rogan - podcaster, comedian and commentator on UFC’s mixed martial artist telecasts - debuted on Spotify on Tuesday, nearly five months after signing a $100 million deal in May that gives Spotify a worldwide exclusive - but not ownership - of his popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. As the trading day heats up on Thursday, the price is hovering around $269.50. The closing price of $275.62 marked a 5.5% drop from Tuesday’s close. 2) morning, shaving as much as $4.81 billion of its value, following a report Joe Rogan’s back catalog debuted on the platform Tuesday without episodes by right-wing personalities. Spotify shares dropped 8.8% Wednesday (Sep.
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