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Spotify Is Struggling

cc333 said:
Please pardon my profound ignorance here, but is Joe Rogan left or right leaning, and how far?

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I think he's fairly right-wing.

I've only ever listened to a few podcasts on Spotify, and they've all been either radio/media related or soccer related. And yet, there he is, on my recommendations, every single time, along with endless murder podcast landfill that I'd never listen to in a million years. They really do push the stuff they want to push, rather than stuff related to what you've already listened to.
 
cc333 said:
Please pardon my profound ignorance here, but is Joe Rogan left or right leaning, and how far?
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Joe will tell you he's nonpartisan and is "just asking questions." To his credit, he usually does a good job of just listening and letting his guests talk, but almost all of his guests range from center-right to extreme-right. He also makes occasional endorsements and commentary of his own, most of which tilt right. So, you would mostly get right wing viewpoints from listening to his show.
 
Kent said:
Joe will tell you he's nonpartisan and is "just asking questions." To his credit, he usually does a good job of just listening and letting his guests talk, but almost all of his guests range from center-right to extreme-right. He also makes occasional endorsements and commentary of his own, most of which tilt right. So, you would mostly get right wing viewpoints from listening to his show.
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Was he always that way. I remember him as a comedian, he seemed neutral.
 
Don CT said:
Was he always that way. I remember him as a comedian, he seemed neutral.
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He's not your standard right wing talk host you find on AM radio, but you're unlikely to walk away with a balanced or an unbiased view on any major issue if he's your only source of information.

Like I said, he does a good job of just letting his guests talk without arguing or interjecting his personal opinions, but his guests are almost entirely conservative white men. When you mostly have one type of guest on your show, your audience mostly gets one viewpoint.
 
Miss Tuned said:
Not really, as it relates to Scottish football and I don't have a lot of interest! It's a whole different league and set of teams.

It's the same game under the same rules, it's not like the NFL vs the CFL, but it's just not my teams.
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Yeah, do you like the Premier League instead? Do you have a team? I watch Premier League on NBC sometimes, I like watching United since I won a jersey from them a few years ago. But I also love watching Millwall - "No one like us, we don't care!" :LOL:
 
Miss Tuned said:
And yet, there he is, on my recommendations, every single time, along with endless murder podcast landfill that I'd never listen to in a million years. They really do push the stuff they want to push, rather than stuff related to what you've already listened to.
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Spotify paid a staggering $250 million for Rogan. Undoubtedly they are pushing him wildly to absolutely everybody they can, hoping to manufacture as many fans as possible, fans who would then be on the hook to remain subscribers to go on hearing him.
 
The stock market loves the term "disrupters". The only problem not all disrupters make money. Innovation can reduce the entire industries profitably. A lot of folks want commercial free music but they don't want to pay subscription fees either.

If I had a channel where we fed $100.00 bills into a shredder*, one after another and it was down loaded or watched in the top 20 I bet I could find an investor to buy the IPO. Then that investor could leverage it to some idiot bond buyer.

*Shredding is environmentally friendlier than burning.
 
secondchoice said:
If I had a channel where we fed $100.00 bills into a shredder*, one after another and it was down loaded or watched in the top 20 I bet I could find an investor to buy the IPO. Then that investor could leverage it to some idiot bond buyer.
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This person shredded two $100 bills and got 38k views:

At least according to what I make from a video with that amount of views, they did not recoup their investment:

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kevtronics said:
At least according to what I make from a video with that amount of views, they did not recoup their investment
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Seems to me like they'd have to more than double that view count to maybe break even.

It does prove one thing, however: That many so-called "influencers" can earn money on YouTube no matter how inane and useless their content is.

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Qnssekr said:
Hopefully they will collapse. They are thieves
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I agree that the whole industry is well overdue for a major readjustment (in other words: regulatory reform), but thieves will be thieves, and as such will always find new ways to bilk people out of their hard earned money.

And given that the government is currently crammed full of people who could be described as thieve-like themselves, I doubt Big Tech will see that readjustment any time soon.

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