After the montage video surfaced online, the steaming platform Spotify was reported to have taken down his 70 videos for which Rogan agreed to. (Preview clips were removed by YouTube for violating the site’s community guidelines, but the three-hour-long episode remains live on Spotify. ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ saw the podcast host Rogan using N-word for several years and now the compilation video of him speaking the racial slur has hit the social media which has created a lot of buzz. While there may have been several factors behind this, it is safe to assume that certain groups of investors are. But as the pandemic rolled around, the Swedish streaming company found themselves with a new dilemma on their hands, as Rogan began using his podcast to amplify conspiracy theories about the virus, whether publicizing the views of anti-vaxxer guests, endorsing treatments such as ivermectin that have been widely disproven to be effective against Covid, or in the most recent instance, hosting Malone, who used the episode to promote the notion that hospitals are being financially incentivized to falsify Covid mortalities and compared U.S. Ek paid 100 million so that Spotify would be the exclusive home of The Joe Rogan ExperienceSpotify’s podcast flagshipand no amount of contractual doublespeak erases that. Amidst Joe Rogan’s controversy, Spotify lost over 2 billion in late January. At the time, many music fans (and, indeed, Spotify employees) questioned the decision, given Rogan’s history of racist remarks, transphobic jokes, and misogyny. But how did the controversy begin?įirst, there was the deal Spotify signed with Rogan in 2020, in which the company reportedly paid over $100 million for exclusive rights to his hit podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, the top podcast on Spotify. I am committing to an incremental investment of 100 million. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” It comes after growing concern from medical professionals in the wake of a particularly controversial episode of Rogan’s podcast in December featuring the vaccine skeptic and right-wing media star Dr. In his letter to the Spotify staff Ek, who has been backing Joe Rogan even as musicians have removed their music from the platform in protest, said his platform believes in elevating types of creators, promising to invest in promoting historically marginalized groups.
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” she wrote in a statement posted to her website. Right after the 100 million multi-year licensing of the JRE, Spotify removed about 40 of the podcast's episodes. 12.7M subscribers Musicians, including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, asked for their music to be removed from Spotify after criticism that US broadcaster Joe Rogan has helped to spread Covid. Both artists have now removed their music from the platform, accusing Spotify of allowing Covid misinformation to spread by continuing to stream Joe Rogan’s controversial podcast. Spotify removes several Joe Rogan Experience episodes.
On Friday, the legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell announced she would be joining fellow musician Neil Young in his protest against Spotify.
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