{"id":1270223,"date":"2022-02-04T03:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1270223"},"modified":"2022-02-04T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:23:00","slug":"obamas-considering-leaving-spotify-as-company-continues-to-face-left-wing-backlash-to-joe-rogan-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-considering-leaving-spotify-as-company-continues-to-face-left-wing-backlash-to-joe-rogan-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamas Considering Leaving Spotify As Company Continues To Face Left-Wing Backlash To Joe Rogan: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobamas-considering-leaving-spotify-as-company-continues-to-face-left-wing-backlash-to-joe-rogan-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1270223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Obamas-scaled-1-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrats Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly considering leaving Spotify as the streaming giant continues to face left-wing backlash over top podcast host Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>Industry sources told Insider that the Obamas\u2019 decision to look around comes as their three-year Spotify deal is coming up for renewal.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama\u2019s team at Higher Ground is \u201cfrustrated with the slow pace of development at Spotify, where it can be hard to get a greenlight,\u201d the report said. \u201cOne source said Higher Ground\u2019s pitches don\u2019t always align with the platform\u2019s focus on shows that can reach a wide audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said that other heavy hitters like Amazon and Apple could compete for the Obama\u2019s business because they have upped their investments in podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Spotify deals with left-wing-generated backlash to Rogan for allegedly promoting \u201cmisinformation\u201d on his show, although critics are rarely able to give specific examples.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity Fair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/02\/joe-rogan-drama-exposes-the-drift-of-audio-giants-other-mega-deals\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>With his outsize media footprint, no-f***s-given hosting style, and an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, Rogan is, like it or not, the face of Spotify\u2019s podcasting play. It\u2019s a face that comes with voluble \u201canti-woke\u201d bona fides; a hyper-macho sensibility somewhere between MAGA and Bernie Bro; and, most problematically, a warm embrace of vaccine skepticism. But all of that is part of the appeal for Rogan\u2019s loyal army of superfans, many of them young and male, which is what makes him so valuable to a company whose success depends on attracting large numbers of engaged paying subscribers. In the words of one seasoned audio industry insider, having Joe Rogan \u201cis like dropping a Taylor Swift album every day. Spotify needs him way more than he needs Spotify.\u201d (Spotify didn\u2019t have a comment for this story.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Joe Rogan Experience, which debuted in the earlier and comparatively quaint podcasting era of 2009, towers over its Spotify peers. Part of that has to do with the reality that the company\u2019s other big-ticket deals just simply haven\u2019t gained the same traction. Harry and Meghan have produced a lone 33-minute holiday special since inking a reported $25 million Spotify contract in December 2020. (They currently don\u2019t have anything else in development with Spotify, someone familiar with the matter confirmed.) The Obamas, whose 2019 deal was rumored to be in the same general ballpark, have produced a few compelling shows, including one podcast hosted by Michelle Obama and another in which Barack Obama teamed up with Bruce Springsteen. But the buzz around these efforts has paled in comparison to the couples\u2019 best-selling memoirs, or even the award-winning features they\u2019ve produced for a separate content deal they have with Netflix. Moreover, informed sources told me the Obamas\u2019 production company, Higher Ground, has been frustrated with Spotify at times, finding it difficult to get additional shows off the ground. I\u2019m told the Obamas are more interested in lifting young new voices than carrying shows themselves, and that this focus hasn\u2019t always aligned with Spotify\u2019s. (Another source said that Spotify and Higher Ground are in active production on new shows in this vein.) As for the other offerings under the Spotify banner, chances are you haven\u2019t heard of them. But you almost certainly hear about Joe Rogan every time something crazy is said on his show.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Spotify CEO Daniel Ek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/spotifys-ceo-makes-new-statement-about-joe-rogan-companys-decision-to-change-policies\">reportedly<\/a> told employees on Wednesday that the platform does not have editorial discretion over Rogan\u2019s #1-rated podcast, \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience,\u201d following an attempt from leftists to get Rogan booted off the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/spotify-takes-new-action-in-response-to-left-wing-outrage-over-joe-rogan-report\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday that it was publishing its content policy and that it would create a coronavirus information hub, which The Wall Street Journal reported came in response to backlash the company has faced from leftists over Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement from Ek came after musician Neil Young complained about claims that Rogan had made on \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d about the pandemic and had his music removed from the platform. A couple of other musicians also had their music pulled down over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had rules in place for many years but admittedly, we haven\u2019t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly. This, in turn, led to questions around their application to serious issues including COVID-19,\u201d CEO Daniel Ek&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.spotify.com\/2022-01-30\/spotifys-platform-rules-and-approach-to-covid-19\/\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday. \u201cBased on the feedback over the last several weeks, it\u2019s become clear to me that we have an obligation to do more to provide balance and access to widely-accepted information from the medical and scientific communities guiding us through this unprecedented time. These issues are incredibly complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has also pushed for social media companies to take action against Rogan as Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advocated for during an MSNBC appearance last week.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly considering leaving Spotify as the streaming giant continues to face left-wing backlash over top podcast host Joe Rogan.Industry sources told Insider that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}