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The television broadcast of UFC 271 on Saturday night won’t include Joe Rogan. According to multiple reports, the controversial personality and podcast host won’t handle his normal duties for the MMA broadcast. The New York Post cited a UFC official who said that Rogan had a “scheduling conflict” preventing him from being on the broadcast. Former middleweight champion Michael Bisping will replace Rogan on the ESPN and pay-per-view broadcast. That “scheduling conflict” comes as Rogan has been… Source link

(Reuters) – Rumble Inc, a YouTube-style website popular among U.S. conservatives, has offered Joe Rogan $100 million over four years for all his shows, days after the podcaster apologized for using racial slurs in his content. Rogan is also facing backlash for COVID-19 misinformation in his program hosted on Spotify, after singer-songwriters including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their content from the streaming platform. The incidents prompted Spotify to add a “content advisory” to any… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Spotify needs to keep its artists happy, or it will have nothing Spotify (SPOT), the world’s most popular music streaming service, faces an existential threat in the form of a boycott by the very artists it needs to survive. So far, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Focus on the fundamentals, ignore the outrage brigades Since Neil Young noisily departed Spotify in protest over its hosting of Joe Rogan, the platform has endured a slow drip of chart-toppers from a bygone era opting to join Young, and a torrent of bad press. Meanwhile, related Google searches have spiked dramatically… Source link

The growing clamor surrounding Spotify (SPOT) took a new turn over the weekend, with at least two more artists vowing to depart the platform over podcaster Joe Rogan — who the streaming giant backed in a statement. On Sunday, Spotify broke its silence after the company refused to give into Neil Young’s ultimatum to drop “The Joe Rogan Experience” — the most popular podcast on Spotify — over controversies surrounding his stance on COVID-19 vaccinations. The legendary rocker’s music will… Source link

TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 2 “Strong Buy” Stocks Could Surge at Least 30% We’re well into the first quarter of 2021 now, and it’s a good time to take stock of what’s behind us, and how it will impact what lies ahead. Goldman Sachs strategist Jan Hatzius believes that we are on an upward trajectory, with better times ahead. Hatzius sees the developed economies expanding as the corona crisis recedes. For the US, particularly, he is impressed by the ‘very substantial fiscal… Source link

Investors are tuning into Spotify’s (SPOT) earnings day. Shares of the music streaming platform fell as much as 5% on Thursday as the company came up short on the bottom line amid investments in podcasts from stars such as media personality Joe Rogan and former first lady Michelle Obama, and ongoing enhancements to the business. Spotify CFO Paul Vogel told Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade he is pleased with how the quarter shook out. “The quarter was fantastic,” said Vogel. He added… Source link