4 Months After $250M Spotify Deal, Joe Rogan Sets the Record Straight on the “Best Platform” Ever

Despite the groundbreaking success Joe Rogan had with Spotify, the UFC commentator placed them below former partners YouTube! The Joe Rogan Experience has become quite the phenomenon in the podcasting world. His deal with Spotify proved to be a worthwhile investment for the streaming giants and the 56-year-old. However, despite the amount of money he’s been able to earn through Spotify, Rogan believes there is no better platform than YouTube!

YouTube was the first platform of choice for Joe Rogan when he started his multi-million-dollar podcast back in 2009. He stayed on that platform for over a decade before making the jump to Daniel Ek‘s platform. But guess what? The 56-year-old thinks that there are quite a few perks for content creators who operate mostly on YouTube.

YouTube is the best, according to Joe Rogan

It was a whole different picture back when YouTube went live on the internet in 2005. Now, more than a couple million content creators in the world have their careers based on this video-sharing platform, and Joe Rogan is living proof of that claim. The longtime UFC commentator believes that as far as platforms in the internet space are concerned, things don’t get better than YouTube. But why did he jump to that conclusion? Well, Rogan is all about accessibility, and YouTube, he believes, does that better than anyone else.

“They’re awesome, they’re awesome. They have the best platform. I mean, it’s the most accessible. It’s so easy to share ,” said Joe Rogan on a recent episode of JRE, featuring fellow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe as the guest. But that was not it for the 56-year-old. He also rated the fact sharing YouTube videos, unlike Netflix or Prime Video content, is nothing less of a boon.

“The sharing thing is huge because you don’t really share Netflix movies and stuff. I tell people,” Joe Rogan added. Well, he loves YouTube, but does that mean he doesn’t love Spotify? There are upsides to both platforms and after putting pen to paper on a new non-exclusive deal with the platform, the JRE host would shower words of praise on the execs of Spotify.

JRE host claims Spotify has the “coolest and smartest people”

Yes, for Joe Rogan, despite how much he loves YouTube, his partnership with Spotify has been a personal success. After re-signing with the platform earlier this year, the 56-year-old claimed he was as happy as he could have been, working with the people of Daniel Ek’s platform. He seemed excited about the continuation of his partnership. The new deal has no issues with Rogan sharing his episodes on YouTube, where he started this multi-million-dollar endeavor.

“Shoutout to [Spotify] for absolutely being the coolest and smartest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of being in partnership with. I’m very excited the podcast will now have a much broader distribution,” tweeted Joe Rogan following his re-signing. JRE still holds the No. 1 spot on the podcast charts even as we speak.

YouTube has given rise to so many talented content creators, which is a reason why Joe Rogan speaks so highly of them. But what do you think? Do you prefer Spotify or YouTube? Drop your comments below.

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