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Joe Rogan has now revealed that the prospect of getting demonetized, de-indexed, or outright censored by YouTube was one of the factors that led him to sign his exclusive $100 million deal with Spotify, Digital Music News reports.
YouTube wasn’t the only place to find Joe Rogan before he signed with Spotify — but it was certainly one of the most important ones. Now, Rogan has disclosed that the possibility of getting censored by YouTube was one of the reasons he signed his exclusive Spotify deal.
“By the way, Tim Dillon has been almost completely demonetized on YouTube,” Rogan told guest Dave Smith on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Dillon is a stand-up comic and podcaster who has nearly 300,00 YouTube followers, but was stripped of advertising for saying the wrong things.
“So if you love Tim Dillon the way I do, support his Patreon,” Rogan continued. “They won’t let him make any money on YouTube. It’s hilarious, it’s too controversial.”
Ironically, Rogan’s arrival at Spotify was hardly censorship-free.
Instead, Spotify immediately demanded the removal of certain shows as a condition of their exclusive deal. Rogan later admitted that he agreed to those removals, while downplaying the total number. After those comments, it was quickly discovered that more than 40 shows had been deleted.
Beyond that, activist Spotify employees pushed for more removals, as well as direct editorial oversight over Rogan’s future episodes. Spotify management has pushed back against those demands, and appears hesitant to remove additional podcast episodes. But this seems like an ongoing fight, with Rogan potentially chilled by Spotify’s earlier removals and oversight demands.
Shortly after signing his $100 million exclusive deal with Spotify, Rogan’s YouTube shows were discontinued — and older episodes removed.
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