Summary

Joe Rogan’s podcast has lost its long-held No. 1 ranking to the anti-Trump MeidasTouch Podcast, according to Podscribe data.

MeidasTouch, founded by the Meiselas brothers, saw a 101% increase in downloads, reaching 56 million, while The Joe Rogan Experience dropped 32% to 48.6 million.

The shift marks a rare moment where a left-leaning podcast overtakes typically dominant conservative voices.

It remains uncertain whether MeidasTouch will maintain its top position or if other anti-Trump podcasts will gain traction.

  • nieminen@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    Not necessarily “anti-trump”, just “pro-democracy”. Just happens that pro-democracy is inherently anti-trump

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I just checked out their YT channel - their thumbnails and titles are moderately aggravating. They are definitely using STUPID TACTICS in order to get MORE CLICKS.

      • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        They drove me away with those tactics before I ever saw they were on YouTube. No, Donald Trump was not EVISCERATED by a tweet that he -couldn’t- -didn’t- couldn’t read, kick rocks with that dumb Avenatti hashtag resist horseshit

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        They are definitely using STUPID TACTICS in order to get MORE CLICKS.

        That’s just the way youtube works. If you want to make a financially viable youtube channel, you don’t really have an other option than to play the game.

        • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Not everyone does, especially with the capitalization. My favourite creators generally don’t do either of these things.

          I will concede that the most popular channels usually do this… but in my mind they are aiming for children and the unintelligent with their tactics. Which in turn usually turns me off their content, unless it is amazing.

      • trslim@pawb.social
        11·
        3 days ago

        Yeah it infuriates me that that is the way to get clicks and farm veiws. A lot of the time, the content is actually good, but fuck, those stupid ass thumbnails and titles drive me insane.

        • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          0·
          3 days ago

          Any YouTube channel in general has to to some extent to simply get people to click. It’s crazy how the psychology of it works, and people need to exploit it in order to just not disappear in the sea of YouTube videos.

          I remember somebody talking once about why so many video thumbnails have the person’s head superimposed on them, and it’s because people are like 46% more likely to click on a video if it has a person’s face on it than if it doesn’t, even if it’s the exact same video.

          • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
            01·
            3 days ago

            I wish I were normal human sometimes. If I see someone’s face on a thumbnail and there are several capitalized words in the title, I’m just not going to watch the video. Same goes for any vertical video.

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      Their YouTube video titles are super clickbaity but the contents of the videos are very good, and not hyperbole. But the video titles, makes you want to have a service to crowd source video titles…

      Oh there is one, called dearrow

      • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 days ago

        That’s how people click on them. I follow a science interview podcast and they hired a new producer that started changing the YouTube thumbnails to those generic dumb click bait ones.

        The host says he hates it, but can’t argue that whenever they make a thumbnail like that, the views are significantly higher.

        In the end, you do what draws eyeballs. The content is what matters.

        • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          What kills me is all of a sudden everyone is using ai art in thumbnails I actually turned off my thumbnail switching plugin to block channels that were using ai art in their thumbnails.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yeah, I legitimately don’t understand it. I used to like his show back around 2016-2017sh time frame. Back then, he usually just had well known comedians on and shot the shit and it was funny. Hell, he’d even have cool scientists on discussing new research they were doing that he found interesting. He’d have the occasional fringe topic, e.g. UFOs, conspiracies, etc., but it was always done in an entertaining way and wasn’t overly political.

      I don’t know what the hell happened, but around 2019/2020 he just went way to the far right and became a giant piece of shit. I haven’t listened to his garbage show in years.

      • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        Same, freaking crazy. 2016-2017 it was awesome, he was actually progressive too, podcast was dope af, had all kinds of cool people on and conversations. Now it’s just pathetic

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
    0·
    4 days ago

    This is like the gen alpha version of “MSNBC beats out Fox as most viewed cable news network” headlines from 2017