Scoop: It's a generally accepted truth that Joe Rogan's podcast is the biggest on Earth (!) But how massive is his audience? Last month, Spotify quietly started testing a feature that discloses how many followers podcasts on the platform have. His show is almost 3X bigger than the next most popular.
These follower counts have never been shared before, and while followers doesn't equal listeners (people can follow and not tune in) this is the number of people who specifically sought out and tapped "follow" to hear about when new episodes are released.
@ashleyrcarman Joe Rogan is the new Johnny Carson. Everyone watches it before they go to bed.
@ashleyrcarman Because his podcast is like most people have conversations and he will interview anybody and just talk not scripted questions to get gotcha moments and clicks . It’s like me and my buddies we don’t always agree but we can still have a conversation and debate.
@ashleyrcarman People still watch TED Talks?
@ashleyrcarman "His show is almost 3X bigger than the next most popular." Since when does popular = good?
@ashleyrcarman "when his show has come under scrutiny for things like spreading vaccine misinformation" was proven to NOT be misinformation. No one retracts their false claims, do they? FDA just did, only because they were sued & lost on ivermectin false claims. Thinking people avoid MSM lies.
When we came up with the idea for Goodpods, we thought, what if we could help people discover, share with friends and chat about the 4.5 million other podcasts that aren’t on lists like this? Like a Goodreads or Letterboxd for podcasts?! There’s so much incredible content that’s flying under the radar! So we built it!
@ashleyrcarman My man @TheoVon bigger than @benshapiro Maybe there is hope in the world.