Yes, of course he's losing influence seeing as how he's haemorrhaging listeners - like me - who do not want to get Spotify only to listen to Rogan. He often has

Yes, of course he's losing influence seeing as how he's haemorrhaging listeners - like me - who do not want to get Spotify only to listen to Rogan. He often has interesting guests, he has no problems trampling all over the boundaries of correctness (which I deem to be a good thing) but he should have realised that there is a large overlap between the group of people who might be interested in listening to such conversations and the group of people who do not want to feed the Big Data Beast by installing and running apps like Spotify. I listen to a lot of netcasts using my own aggregator (based on Airsonic) which can handle anything which is available through an RSS feed. Spotify does not integrate with this system which means that Spotify-only content simply will be ignored - there is enough competition on the netcast market after all.