Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
I agree with JRE leaving YouTube over the censorship but I disagree with him moving exclusively to spotify for following reasons:<p>1. Spotify was the one who conspired with Facebook, Apple and Google to ban Alex Jones and others. So if Joe is moving off of YouTube because he doesn&#x27;t like the censorship, he&#x27;s not getting anything better with Spotify.<p>2. Currently, Spotify doesn&#x27;t have video (except album cover clips which occasionally show up). I prefer JRE&#x27;s video format instead of audio. Think of Elon smoking weed on video vs on audio - very different. Seems like Spotify might be adding video later in the year but until that happens, we don&#x27;t know what we will be getting.<p>3. &quot;Exclusive&quot; deals in the podcast world is bad. Podcasts were supposed to be platform independent audio files. Making things exclusive is going backwards.<p>4. Spotify is not available in many countries.<p>5. Spotify&#x27;s desktop player isn&#x27;t the best imo. Their web player is only for audio so far, so they need to make major changes.