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• #THE RINGER PODCASTS MOVIE#

We’ve managed, and certainly a lot of people are in worse shape than just not being able to talk to your bosses, but it was an unusual way to start our relationship.

Yeah, it was weird to join a company and then not actually have real meetings with anybody. How did that affect plans you had following the sale? You sold The Ringer, and then the pandemic immediately shut everything down. Simmons and I jumped on the phone last week to talk about those recalibration efforts along with several other things I’ve wanted to know since the deal was announced.

That’s meant leaning harder into nostalgia and evergreen material, exemplified by podcasts such as Binge Mode, The Rewatchables, and Way Down the Hole, a rewatch podcast about The Wire that’s hosted by Jemele Hill and Van Lathan. Simmons will be deeply involved in those efforts, but for now, he’s been working to adapt The Ringer to a world without fresh supplies of sports and pop culture hooks. Many podcast businesses are bracing for more turbulence ahead.ĭespite the uncertainties, Spotify appears to be pushing on with its quest for media dominance, even as it navigates shocks to advertising revenue due to the bleak economic effects brought on by the pandemic. While podcasting hasn’t (yet) been hit as hard as the rest of the media industry, it still saw a dip in overall listenership as lockdowns wiped out daily commutes, one of the fundamental touch points for consumers. But the future is hard to actualize right now. It was the latest head-turning move in Spotify’s aggressive push into podcasting, which has come to be understood as a major step in the Swedish company’s grand ambitions to become something much more totalizing than a mere music-streaming platform. Spotify’s acquisition, reportedly valued at up to $250 million, was chiefly driven by The Ringer’s strong on-demand audio operation anchored by Simmons’s wildly popular eponymous podcast. Almost overnight, entertainment and sports - The Ringer’s primary coverage areas - ground to a halt and the world as we knew it suddenly ceased to exist. The following Wednesday, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson tested positive for COVID-19, as did Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert. The deal was finalized on a Friday in March.

This year, it was announced that media multi-hyphenate and erstwhile ESPN personality Bill Simmons was selling The Ringer, the podcast-heavy digital outlet he launched in 2016, to Spotify. PSA: Eric Stock of Illinois public radio station WGLT “explores how municipalities and other public bodies are using podcasts to communicate with constituents in new ways.” These local shows have been teaching the public while humanizing government staff.The timing couldn’t have been tighter.On the new podcast Doug Rice and two co-hosts are “embracing the awkwardness of the human condition” by reporting “every disastrous detail.” Do tell: Listeners in North Texas and beyond are sharing their most regrettable date stories with Crazy Ass Dates.The platform is used to “host, organize, distribute, and measure the performance” of branded podcast content. Jump start: Casted, the first SaaS (software as a service) marketing platform for branded podcasts, has announced $2.35 million in seed funding.The preview for Valkyrie, an upcoming installment in a popular sci-fi series, is a film-trailer style video.

#THE RINGER PODCASTS MOVIE#