Influencer or Content Creator? Survey says... (308)

<p>Neil Young gives the finger to Spotify, while influencers and content creators fight for naming rights.</p> <hr /> <p>In today's episode, <a href= "https://www.wsj.com/articles/neil-youngs-music-is-being-taken-down-by-spotify-after-ultimatum-over-joe-rogan-11643230104" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neil Young takes a stand against Joe Rogan and Spotify</a>. Will it work and does it matter?</p> <p>And...right-wing commentator <a href= "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/you-tube-bans-fox-news-host-dan-bongino-211457272.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Bongino gets booted from YouTube.</a> Do they have the right, and what's the long-term play?</p> <p>We discuss the meaning of influencers versus creators as <a href="https://podnews.net/press-release/mcdonalds-pod-digital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McDonald's goes influencer</a>, <a href= "https://www.axios.com/trump-truth-social-influencers-d2090c29-415a-49e4-abe3-de74c1b0843a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump Social goes searching</a>, and <a href= "https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2022/01/25/the-growth-of-the-creator-economy-and-what-it-means-for-marketers/?sh=5cb660e14f1d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes gets into the creator economy</a>.</p> <p>And finally, Tom Brady launches his new crypto NFT project. Yes, we are going back to the year 2000.</p> <p>In rants and raves, Joe raves about <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FHBV4ZX/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andy Weir's new book</a>, and Robert rants about <a href= "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/25/google-floc-topics-tracking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> and <a href= "https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/370642/ad-industry-privacy-advocates-spar-over-surveill.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad privacy</a>.</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">---------</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Liked this show? SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on <a href= "https://open