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This makes me incredibly sad: not that we are losing Rogan's show, but that Adtech is finally absorbing the last type of media that was truly Free.
by css 6y ago
This makes me incredibly sad: not that we are losing Rogan's show, but that Adtech is finally absorbing the last type of media that was truly Free.
- petercooper 6y agoI also think this is a bad move, but to play devil's advocate for a moment.. if this deal had meant that the show became ad-free (it's not), would that be preferable to it being open but with ads? I only ask because I think some people here might say yes, though I personally think the importance of being open and using open protocols like RSS supersedes the business model.
- css 6y agoI don't care about ads, I care about walled gardens. Especially walled gardens that are designed to spy on you.
- tracker1 6y agoThat being the case, which is worse, youtube or spotify in this case?
- jzoch 6y agoits a podcast. It just also is published on youtube. Listen to it via RSS on a podcast app and thats my choice.
- eozoon 6y ago> The JRE will debut on Spotify on September 1, 2020, and become exclusively available on the platform later this year. The RSS podcast part will also be gone later in the year. I don't really listen to Joe Rogan's show, but I feel this is a very bad move for a "podcast" and am very said that a very prominent show decides to do this..
- Barrin92 6y agoThat's like choosing between the plague and cholera. I'm not really a personal fan of Sam Harris but I have to say I approve of his way of running his podcast. Charge people some money and send them an RSS link.
- eozoon 6y agoOpen with ads is better than add free but walled for me as well. But it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive, they could have put ad-free version on (paid) Spotify, ad version everywhere else.
- tracker1 6y agoIt was already adtech, just youtube's ad-tech. And YouTube has been a really bad actor in terms of creator support.