The World's Biggest Podcast makes a lot of people furious, but it's still the World's Biggest Podcast. Now the man behind The Joe Rogan Experience signed another deal with Spotify, worth an estimated 250 million dollars. The deal allows the streamer to distribute Rogan's podcasts on additional platforms, including a video version for YouTube, but it also includes a revenue-sharing deal based on ad sales, in case Rogan burns through those hundreds millions too quickly.
Rogan has been a regular source of controversy since joining, particularly with misinformed views on COVID, which have prompted doctors and scientists to demand that Spotify update its misinformation policy. Spotify claimed that it was not responsible for Rogan, that it was a platform and not a publisher. Now Spotify will release Rogan's projects elsewhere, what will his defense be next time?
—Mat Smith
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