The company doesn't feature older episodes of Rogan's podcast featuring the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones - whose own podcast got booted from the platform in 2018 for breaching its rules on "hate content" - and it has removed some other episodes featuring far-right figures, Vice said. The back-and-forth indicates Spotify will increasingly have to deal with moderation issues not dissimilar to those at social-media companies like Facebook and Twitter.
This was seen as a huge win for the platform as it builds out its podcasting empire and competes with Apple, Amazon, and Google. Rogan, who has 9.5 million subscribers on YouTube, signed an exclusive deal with Spotify in May. "If we can't have open, confidential debates, we will have to move those discussions to closed doors," he said. Spotify Technology SAs 100 million bet on Joe Rogan has put the audiostreaming company in business with one of podcastings most popular - and polarizing - voices.
It just means we made a different judgment call."Įk also told employees not to leak to the media if they want to be included in company conversations about moderation, Vice reported. "The fact that we aren't changing our position doesn't mean we aren't listening. "Joe Rogan and the episode in question have been reviewed extensively," Ek said in the all-hands, according to the report.
Rogan's aversion to so-called political correctness has taken the form of comments widely considered transphobic, Islamophobic, and racist.Sources told Vice that Spotify staff highlighted one episode in which Rogan interviewed Abigail Shrier about her book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters." But Rogan, a stand-up comedian, is also a controversial figure. Vivian Zink/Syfy/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images. His guests range from celebrities to neuroscientists and everything in between. Spotify aired Joe Rogans recent podcast episode where he defended his use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Rogan's long, winding conversations have proven to be massively popular. In 2019, Spotify paid nearly $400 million to acquire the Gimlet and Parcast podcast networks as well as and the podcast tech provider Anchor. It spent some $200 million to acquire the website The Ringer, in part, to expand the platform's stable of sports podcasts. Spotify has shown it's willing to pay up. Terms of the deal had not yet been made public, but the payout for Rogan had to be sizable. Spotify said the video episodes would be available as in-app vodcasts. "We will still have clips up on YouTube but full versions of the show will only be on Spotify after the end of the year," Rogan wrote on Instagram. The podcasts are typically very long, sometimes over three hours. The migration to Spotify will be a loss for other podcast hosting services, as well as YouTube, where a video portion of Rogan's interviews are currently uploaded and watched millions of times.
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