Spotify’s CEO said the company won’t remove Kanye West’s music from its platform despite mounting pressure to do so from a growing number of corporate leaders and news media outlets.
Meghan Markle’s podcasting debut has seen her show shoot to the top of the Spotify rankings, unseating Joe Rogan from first place.
Meghan Markle’s debut podcast released Tuesday, tied to her agreement with streaming giant Spotify and reportedly worth $25 million, drew an underwhelming response from critics and some members of the public alike.
Meghan Markle kicked off her new Spotify podcast series “Archetypes” on Tuesday with a feminist rant, complaining that ambition has become a “terrible, terrible” thing for women.
Barack and Michelle Obama are expanding their media empire by teaming up with Amazon’s Audible in a multi-year deal that will see the former first couple create podcasts and other audio content for the platform following their departure from Spotify.
Music and podcast streaming service Spotify recently announced the formation of a “Safety Advisory Council” to provide third-party input on issues including “hate speech”, disinformation, and extremism. The move comes after an ongoing backlash against the platform for not censoring Joe Rogan enough to satisfy leftists.
After signing an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify in 2019, the Obamas will reportedly be leaving the platform after their deal ends in October.
Meghan Markle has reportedly filed an application to trademark the centuries old word “archetypes” ahead the launch of her upcoming podcast.
The fallout from Will Smith physically assaulting Chris Rock at the Oscars will impact more than just Smith’s Hollywood career. Corporate partners who have allied themselves with Smith and his charitable foundation now face brand safety concerns over the actor’s newly toxic public image.
Podcast giant Joe Rogan recently stated that he will happily leave Spotify, abandoning his $200 million deal with the woke tech company, if he has to censor his thoughts and “walk on eggshells.”
Director Ava DuVernay is the latest entertainment industry figure to cut ties with Spotify, reportedly ending a first-look deal between the streaming audio company and her production company, Array.
Not all of rock star Neil Young’s music has been removed from Spotify after most of his work was pulled from the music streaming platform in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan.
The UFC announced on Friday that Joe Rogan would not be on the broadcast team Saturday night for UFC 271 in Houston, Texas.
Jon Stewart has come to the defense of Joe Rogan yet again, saying comments labeled as “misinformation” can often prove to be correct, as was the case with the Iraq War.
Singer India Arie, one of the musicians who asked Spotify to remove her music over famed podcaster Joe Rogan, says she never called Rogan “racist,” and insists that she doesn’t believe in cancel culture.
Joe Rogan has pivoted back to his comedy roots in his latest attempt to address the cancel culture mob that has accused him of using his massively popular podcast to spread “misinformation” about the coronavirus vaccine.
Podcaster Joe Rogan pushed back during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience on Tuesday when he called the recent cancel campaign against him as a “political hit job.”
Grammy-winning rapper T-Pain reacted to the attempts to blacklist podcast Joe Rogan over his past comments, saying that if Spotify cancels Rogan, then the company will have to silence a lot of rap lyrics, which include “killing each other and
Rock icon Neil Young has encouraged Spotify employees to quit the platform in protest over the CEO’s decision to back Joe Rogan.
Former President Donald Trump offered some tough advice to podcaster Joe Rogan on Monday amid the campaign to cancel him: stop apologizing.
Video-hosting platform Rumble is offering famed podcaster Joe Rogan a $100 million deal to leave Spotify and appear exclusively on the upstart YouTube competitor. The offer arrives amid Rogan facing calls from the cancel culture mob to remove him from Spotify over alleged misinformation regarding the Chinese coronavirus, and more recently, his past usage of the N-word during podcast episodes.
Former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang (D) deleted a tweet over the weekend where he expressed the opinion that Joe Rogan — who has come under the wringer following an ongoing censorship battle with Spotify and the subsequent surfacing of a video compilation, showing him using the N-word on his podcast — is “not racist,” deeming his original defense of Rogan “wrong-headed” and hurtful.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said that he will not remove podcaster Joe Rogan from his platform despite the recently surfaced videos.
The progressive establishment is determined to cancel Joe Rogan, for obvious reasons: because he’s popular, more popular than any other media figure in the U.S. who comments on current events, and he’s not on their team.
Famed podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized for using the N-word during past podcast episodes after a compilation of him using the word surfaced on the Internet amid calls to cancel him from Spotify.
Spotify has mass-deleted at least 70 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience as the platform faces further calls to remove Rogan’s show from its platform. The deletions have nothing to do with coronavirus “misinformation” as they primarily date from before the pandemic, including shows with anti-woke academic Gad Saad, director Kevin Smith, and comedian and podcaster Theo Von. This is not the first time that Spotify has censored episodes of the show since signing a megadeal with the comedian.
Former President Barack Obama, 60, and former First Lady Michelle, 58, are looking at new podcast deals with companies aside from their current partner Spotify, a report claimed Thursday, as the former first couple’s current three-year agreement runs out.
Spotify boss Daniel Ek addressed his staff Wednesday and their concerns over the content of Joe Rogan’s podcasts, reminding them of the virtues of tolerance before pointing out it is not the company’s place to “dictate the discourse” of his controversial show.
Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart defended podcaster Joe Rogan this week and advised artists to resist pulling their work from Spotify in protest of him.
Two Latin American presidents, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, weighed in on the ongoing campaign against American podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday, condemning attacks on Rogan as an attempt to stifle freedom of speech and of the press.
Singers David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash released a joint statement on Wednesday joining their Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young member Neil Young in the blacklisting campaign of famed podcaster Joe Rogan. The trio called on Spotify to take “real action” regarding Rogan’s podcast, adding that they do not want their music on the “dangerous” platform.
Sharon Stone has called Joe Rogan an “a**hole” and accused the popular podcaster of not only “risking people’s lives with his idiocy” but actually causing the actual loss of lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
The White House indicated Tuesday that Spotify’s attempts to address what they described as coronavirus “misinformation” on podcaster Joe Rogan’s interviews was not a strong enough response to the freedom of speech controversy.
The cancel mob is still baying for Joe Rogan’s head just days after the popular podcaster acquiesced to their demands by agreeing to a “content advisory” warning label and more “balance” on his show.
Hollywood star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson voiced his support for Joe Rogan after the famed podcaster said he will change his coronavirus messaging strategy after Spotify announced its new “content advisory” rule.
How do the champions of today’s “cancel culture” defend their witch hunts to censor ideas, people, and speech through boycotts and de-platforming? Well, over the past few years, we’ve heard the same excuse a million times: Over and over, they tell us that corporations have every right to choose who they want to do business with and that only the government can violate the First Amendment.
Many things previously described as “misinformation” are “now accepted as fact,” Joe Rogan said after Spotify’s new “approach to COVID-19.”
Spotify announced on Sunday it will add “content advisory” over coronavirus misinformation in the face of protests against podcaster Joe Rogan.
Wayward royals Meghan and Harry have denounced ‘misinformation’ on Spotify, shortly after a number of artists abandoned the platform over podcaster Joe Rogan.
Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak appears to be poking fun at rocker Neil Young’s Spotify protest, joking that he intends to pull “Pat Sajak’s Yodeling Favorites” from the streaming service.
