Re:Spotify's podcast bet went wrong
by user3939382 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:11PM
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Some anecdatum: I stopped listening to Rogan's full podcasts when he moved to Spotify because I'm sometimes interested to listen but not enough to download a new app, sign up for a new account, etc. Bootleg (and official, I think?) accounts post his clips which I watch sometimes, I notice they have 100s of thousands or millions of views. I assume Spotify was expecting to capture all those views. If Rogan clips disappeared from YouTube I just wouldn't watch it.
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I was the same way but I ended up signing up to watch it. It was pretty painless. I'm glad Rogan is on Spotify because YouTube is getting pretty heavy handed with their strikes. They need some competition. I'm surprised Spotify hasn't ventured into video hosting more.
This point is buried but really good. YouTube is a bit at fault here. Ideally we’d all keep using rss, but it’s hard to fault podcasters for going where monetization is possible. Respect to Sam Harris for going fully listener supported.
Re:Spotify's podcast bet went wrong
by user3939382 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:42PM
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Some of the political channels I watch feature the hosts using (very obvious to a human) coded language to refer to COVID, Hitler, Nazis, Hunter Biden, etc. because they don't want to get targeted. It's pretty dystopian and creepy.
The Quartering? The only channel heard I code names for. And God is he sloppy!
FD, I dont watch him anymore as he is becoming increasingly less interesting.
I'm surprised as well, it's clear that music will always be a loss leader for them. Why not do more in video, which is at least a proven monetization channel (YT, Tiktok, IG Live). MTV-style programming is due a comeback.
What do you watch that YouTube's getting heavy handed with strikes?
I signed up (again) on Spotify for Rogan... of course, I was mostly watching on YouTube via an NVidia ShieldTV box, and Spotify didn't have video support for a long while, and even later it was just not a good app/experience for me... so when I dropped PayPal, I cancelled Spotify at the same time. I still catch clips from his JREClips channel on YouTube. It's pretty bad when Rumble has a better (not by much) AndroidTV app than Spotify, with a fraction of the revenue.
You can watch eps here: https://www.dailymotion.com/chupa-official/videos and https://www.dailymotion.com/RoyalsFamily/videos
Use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp to grab what you need before the account is nuked.