The Times' new report also revealed that director Ava DuVernay, after announcing a deal with Spotify last year, has now also severed ties with the company. Joe Rogan and his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, are at the center of growing concerns over COVID-19 misinformation and the host's use of racial slurs in dozens of episodes. Ek, a publicity-shy executive who grew up in a suburb of Stockholm, and many of the company’s engineers and longest-tenured employees are based. Rogan has apologized for using racial slurs and vowed to "balance" out the guests on his show, and Spotify has removed dozens of old episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience.īut Spotify has also repeatedly defended Rogan amid the controversy. Earlier this month, The Verge reported that CEO Daniel Ek told employees that "there are many things that Joe Rogan says that I strongly disagree with and find very offensive" but that "our business wouldn't be where it is today" had Spotify not made deals like the one with Rogan, and Ek also argued that "canceling voices is a slippery slope." Signs of a Cultural Divide Management of the crisis in the United States may have been further complicated because Spotify’s headquarters is nearly 4,000 miles away, in Sweden, where Mr. In recent weeks, though, Spotify has been embroiled in controversy after Neil Young and other artists began to pull their music from the platform in protest of COVID-19 misinformation spread on Rogan's show, and Rogan has also come under fire for using the N-word numerous times in the past. Before this, podcasts were everywhere, and their. No other music-streaming service (except SiriusXM) can offer its audience anything like The Joe Rogan Experience. Under the deal, Rogan's show became an exclusive to Spotify, and The Joe Rogan Experience is currently the most popular podcast on the platform. When Spotify signed a US100 million (A140 million) deal with Rogan in 2020 for the exclusive rights to his podcast the industry took notice. All of this illustrates why the exclusivity deal is such a feather in Spotify’s cap. The podcast’s host and comedian announced Tuesday that the popular show will be available on Spotify starting Sept. February 17, 2022, 1:51 PM 2 min read Joe Rogan’s exclusive podcast deal with Spotify was actually a 200 million deal, double what has been previously reported, according to a new The New York. The Times' report describes how the size of Spotify's deal with Rogan was "extraordinary" considering, for example, its purchase of Gimlet Media and The Ringer reportedly came out to less than $200 million each. 2:01 PM PT The Joe Rogan Experience is headed to Spotify.