Joe Rogan intends to stay with Spotify.
He recently declined a $100 million offer from an alternative video-sharing platform to quit the site.
Rumble recently approached Joe to move his popular but controversial podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” to their video-sharing platform.
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski’s speech to Joe included a promise to pay him “$100 million over four years and ‘uncensored,'” Forbes.com reported.
Pavlovsky’s offer was made via an open letter published earlier this week.
Forbes also reported that following Joe Rogan’s decline in the bid, “Rumble’s SPAC stock fell nearly 17% on Wednesday afternoon, hours after news broke that the comedian Joe Rogan rejected the company’s $100 million offer to leave Spotify and distribute his controversial The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on its platform instead. He also added that “the drop came almost immediately after that Variety ran a headlining story of Rogan’s rejection,” Forbes wrote.
Joe has apparently returned the favor to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, who last week backed him up, even as he was criticized by several iconic musicians and hundreds of scientists for spreading Covid-19 misinformation in his show and through the guests of his program.
Musicians such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills & Nash, India.Arie and Nils Lofgren among others, as well as bloggers have taken down their music or made known their intention to leave the music streaming giant.
Ek defended his position by stating that his company only distributes content.
However, despite mounting criticism, Spotify removed more than 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” which it deemed inappropriate and where Joe “repeatedly used racial slurs and derogatory comments about black people”.
Attention to the issue arose when the musician India. Arie posted a compilation to his Instagram.
Joe posted an apology soon after on his own Instagram account.
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