Joe Rogan’s podcast has grow to be one of the listened-to exhibits on Spotify for the reason that platform added it to its lineup final yr. It’s additionally grow to be one of the controversial as a result of Rogan’s selection of visitors and his personal views. Spotify would not have any plans to do something about it, although, as a result of the corporate’s CEO would not imagine the platform ought to have any say on podcasters’ content material. When Axios requested Spotify CEO Daniel Ek in an interview whether or not the corporate ought to have editorial accountability over podcasts like Rogan’s, Ek responded that Rogan is only one of its many content material creators.

Axios identified that Rogan could also be simply one in every of them, however he is additionally one of the well-paid. Ek responded, nonetheless, that rappers earns tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from the platform, however Spotify would not dictate what they will put of their songs both. Rogan signed a $100 million take care of the audio streaming service in May 2020 to make The Joe Rogan Experience out there to Spotify listeners. Before the yr ended, the podcast grew to become a Spotify unique.

According to a Wall Street Journal report from final yr, Spotify workers expressed issues over the supplies in his podcast that they felt was anti-transgender. Rogan has guested a number of polarizing figures on the present since its debut on the platform. They embody Abigail Shrier, writer of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, and InfoWars proprietor Alex Jones who unfold coronavirus misinformation on the podcast. More just lately, Rogan stated he would not assume individuals ought to get the COVID-19 vaccine, although he did backtrack and told listeners to not take his recommendation critically. 

In Spotify’s most up-to-date earnings report, it stated Rogan’s podcast carried out “above expectations.” Clearly, no matter he is doing is getting individuals to tune in, so the corporate in all probability would not see any cause to step in.