Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Amazon and Spotify are paying tens of millions of dollars for a podcast. Smart?

Much like the TV streaming wars, another fight is happening in Hollywood over big podcasts. Spotify agreed last year to pay Joe Rogan $100 million so it could have exclusive streaming rights to his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

By Madeleine Brand • Jun 29, 2021 • 8m Listen

Much like the TV streaming wars, another fight is happening in Hollywood over big podcasts. Spotify agreed last year to pay Joe Rogan $100 million so it could have exclusive streaming rights to his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Amazon also just agreed to pay somewhere between $60-80 million to Sean Hayes, Jason Bateman, and Will Arnett for the rights to stream their podcast “SmartLess.”

What do these deals mean for listeners, and how might they change the podcast industry?

Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Angie Perrin
Producer, Press Play
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Lucas Shaw
managing editor of media and entertainment at Bloomberg

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Amazon and Spotify are paying tens of millions of dollars for a podcast. Smart?

Much like the TV streaming wars, another fight is happening in Hollywood over big podcasts. Spotify agreed last year to pay Joe Rogan $100 million so it could have exclusive streaming rights to his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Amazon and Spotify are paying tens of millions of dollars for a podcast. Smart?

Much like the TV streaming wars, another fight is happening in Hollywood over big podcasts. Spotify agreed last year to pay Joe Rogan $100 million so it could have exclusive streaming rights to his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

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