Joe Rogan shuts down $100m offer to leave Spotify amid controversy Spotify\/Joe RoganPodcast phenom Joe Rogan shut down the idea that he might accept a $100 million offer to leave Spotify amid all the controversy surrounding his show in recent weeks. At the back end of January, Spotify was thrust into controversy after a number of musicians hit out at the streaming service for allowing Joe Rogan to spread \u201cdisinformation\u201d about the global health crisis. In the weeks since then, the platform has defended Rogan and made changes to his show \u2013 with a disclaimer now being added to some contentious episodes \u2013 but there have been increased calls to cancel his deal amid accusations of racism from previous comments made by the podcast host. Amid that controversy, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has stood by Rogan, claiming that \u201ccanceling voices is a slippery slope,\u201d suggesting that they won\u2019t be terminating the deal anytime soon. Despite that, Rogan received an offer on social media from the platform Rumble, who suggested they\u2019d match his Spotify salary and not censor any of his shows \u2013 be it through deletion or otherwise. While the UFC commentator had stayed quiet on the offer, he did respond to a fan question about it during a \u2018secret\u2019 stand-up gig in Austin, Texas \u2013 where he poked fun at the whole thing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rogan was quizzed on taking the offer and leaving Spotify during a Q&A portion of the show, where he said: \u201cNo, Spotify has hung in with me, inexplicably, let\u2019s see what happens.\u201d Even though the social media calls to cancel Rogan\u2019s deal have been fervorous, it appears as if neither side had the intention of breaking away from each other just yet. That could, obviously, change later down the line \u2013 especially if Spotify continues to lose money from it. Though, we\u2019ll just have to wait and see what happens as things move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan shuts down $100m offer to leave Spotify amid controversy Spotify\/Joe RoganPodcast phenom Joe Rogan shut down the idea that he might accept a $100 million offer to leave Spotify amid all the controversy surrounding his show in recent weeks. At the back end of January, Spotify was thrust into controversy after a number […]<\/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-52254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52254","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=52254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}