Joe Rogan credits Spotify for not canceling JRE podcast deal despite pressure Spotify\/Joe RoganPodcast giant Joe Rogan gave Spotify credit for not bailing on their mega deal with his JRE Podcast in 2021 after the streaming platform came under pressure to do so. At the end of 2020, Joe Rogan made a massive step in taking his podcast to new levels by signing a mega exclusivity deal with Spotify, as the streaming service is the only place to find full-length episodes of the JRE shows. While the deal has been a success for both parties, Spotify has taken flak for pushing Rogan in such a major way, especially amid allegations of racist remarks made by the UFC commentator in past podcasts. Throughout 2021, and through parts of 2022, Spotify has been pushed to drop their deal with Rogan, but they haven\u2019t done so. There have been changes made to the show \u2013 some episodes now have content warnings and some have been removed \u2013 but the podcast host retains creative control. Joe Rogan credits Spotify for sticking with him One of Spotify\u2019s main defenses of Rogan has been that they won\u2019t and can\u2019t censor rappers or other artists on their platform, which the podcast host praised them for. Speaking with comedian Paul Virzi on episode 1843, Rogan claimed that trying to get someone fired has become \u201ca new sport\u201d for some. \u201cThey love to attack someone\u2019s sponsors\u2026 They\u2019ll go after their sponsors or try to get their videos removed from YouTube,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cIt only really works if companies give into it. To Spotify\u2019s credit, one of the brilliant things that they did was nothing. They just said \u2018you know we\u2019re not going to censor rappers. We\u2019re not going to stop them from saying what they want to say. We\u2019re not going to stop Joe, either. This is what he does, this is what he\u2019s always done, we\u2019re going to leave him alone.’\u201d Timestamp of 1:02:20 Rogan\u2019s deal with Spotify reportedly runs through 2023, and there has yet to be any word about an extension \u2013 though it has proven to be a solid investment for the streaming platform. It remains to be seen if they\u2019ll up their investment, but it seems pretty plausible that they\u2019ll do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan credits Spotify for not canceling JRE podcast deal despite pressure Spotify\/Joe RoganPodcast giant Joe Rogan gave Spotify credit for not bailing on their mega deal with his JRE Podcast in 2021 after the streaming platform came under pressure to do so. At the end of 2020, Joe Rogan made a massive step in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}