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This seems like short-term thinking from Joe. I'm sure he got paid big time. But his audience will shrink massively and he'll become a niche personality. It'
by nostromo 6y ago
This seems like short-term thinking from Joe.
I'm sure he got paid big time. But his audience will shrink massively and he'll become a niche personality.
It'll be similar to what happened to Howard Stern when he went to satellite radio; he quickly faded into relative obscurity.
- bengale 6y agoYeah it’s pretty weird. I watch a lot of his shows in the background while working. But I won’t be downloading Spotify to follow him over there.
- hnrodey 6y ago>he quickly faded into relative obscurity And his bank account exploded in to outer space.
- lonelappde 6y agoWhy would Joe want to be a famous podscaster forever? Maybe he's heading into podcast retirement.
- ryeights 6y agoA looooot of people use Spotify, at least in the US.
- thekyle 6y agoYeah I'm one of them. But how many people use it for Podcasts? I don't know any.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoHe's not shrinking by moving to one of the most ubiquitous apps in the world. You're just going to see some brief internet rage before people type "rogan" into the Spotify app they already have running all day. That is nothing like XM radio where I've never met someone who said they had it.
- im_cynical 6y agoI'm a casual watcher of his show (maybe 1 show every few weeks). Spotify has made no investment into their platform to support podcasts. No notification system for new episodes, no already listened to tracking, no subscriptions or an area where i can find all my podcasts. I like the idea of having my music and podcasts all in one place which working across all my devices (Linux, iOS, Windows) and i gave up on them. Spotify may be ubiquitous but they're not engineered for podcasts.