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Rogan’s claim to be doing this as message to Youtube is silly. He’s signing a contract to do a “podcast” with spotify where his “podcast” will not be a podcast

by toofy 6y ago

Rogan’s claim to be doing this as message to Youtube is silly. He’s signing a contract to do a “podcast” with spotify where his “podcast” will not be a podcast at all. Podcasts are not platform specific. They’re open and distributed to any app which can read the RSS file. This is nothing but an act on his part to appeal to the outrage brigade. Re spotify, theyve been heavily ramping up their podcasts lately and doing exclusive/semi-exclusive content all over the place. If you care about the health of our podcast ecosystem, fight this any way you can–podcasts need to remain open. Our current trajectory is a straight line path to paying for podcasts which will have forced ads to go along with paying for them. That’s the road we’re on.

coding_lobster 6y ago
I've never heard about the "podcast" quality being conditioned on platform availability.
- afiori 6y ago
  It is likely not in the definition, but "Spotify-exclusive podcast" sounds a lot like "Chrome-only website". They are podcasts and websites respectively, they just go against the effective spirit of the medium.
  - iterati 6y ago
    Do they? Podcast, to me, is a talk show on the internet.
    - afiori 6y ago
      The distribution model of podcast has always been peculiar. A podcast is a radio show live or not distributed on the internet. Its distribution model mimics that of radio shows archives, that for the internet means RSS-like
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