“Guys like him care first and foremost about reach and relevance and about the love of their audience, and it’s not like he wasn’t already making tens of millions and couldn’t have made more by having subscriptions on top of the ads,” she also posted on Twitter. However nice the financial implications are, it does beg the question of whether the successful comedian has sold out by shifting his catalogue.ĭespite the huge amount of money Rogan made from the deal, the original poster also bought integrity into the equation. In fact, according to Wall Street Journal, Rogan earned $100 million from the Spotify licensing deal for his podcasts. Of course, the move from free streaming on YouTube to an exclusive deal with Spotify, doesn’t come without considerable financial compensation. “Every time either I moved, or a radio host moved… Imus, Art Bell, several others… I thought they were critical to my media life and I’d be jonesing without them but I forgot about them in 48 hours,” said another. Traded cultural relevance for life-altering wealth,” one fan replied. His audience shrunk and his net worth expanded. For a lot people he simply disappeared, and they didn’t miss him as much as they thought they would. “Reminds me of when Howard Stern went to Sirius in 2004.
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