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November 13, 2024:
Audible, Crooked Media, iHeart Podcasts, PRX, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lemonada Media, Wondery, and Vox Media to name a few.
October 14, 2024:
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Small Ball with Kenny Beecham is now with Vox Media. The show is hosted by YouTube star and NBA superfan Kenny Beecham, and provides year-round basketball coverage and publishes weekly on Fridays during the NBA season, Beecham will share his unique insights through game analysis, player stories, and more. Vox Media will look after sales, marketing, and distribution; the show was formerly with Captivate.
September 27, 2024:
Audible, Crooked Media, iHeart Podcasts, PRX, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lemonada Media, Wondery, and Vox Media to name a few.
September 20, 2024:
Audible, Crooked Media, iHeart Podcasts, PRX, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lemonada Media, Wondery, and Vox Media to name a few.
September 11, 2024:
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Channels with Peter Kafka is new from Vox Media. It's the relaunch of Peter Kafka's technology show, formerly known as Recode Media. The show will feature weekly conversations with industry leaders, upstarts, and observers, about the areas where media, entertainment and technology collide.
September 10, 2024:
Audible, Crooked Media, iHeart Podcasts, PRX, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lemonada Media, Wondery, and Vox Media to name a few.
August 9, 2024:
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Not Just Football with Cam Heyward has moved from ESPN to Vox Media in partnership with SBNation. Vox Media will assume marketing, sales, and distribution for the show, which unpacks the biggest stories from around the NFL.
July 11, 2024:
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Vox Media's Land of the Giants looks at Disney in a new season called The Disney Dilemma - Disney’s trajectory from a small animation studio to one of the largest companies in the world, and the leadership struggles and competition it currently faces as it looks toward the future. It's the narrative podcast's tenth season.
May 20, 2024:
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Prof G Markets is new from Vox Media and NYU Stern Marketing professor Scott Galloway today. You'll get more of Galloway and research analyst Ed Elson’s brash insights and analysis into what’s moving the capital markets. Mondays show will also go into The Prof G Pod; new Thursday shows will be exclusive to this feed.
April 8, 2024:
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Vox Media’s SB Nation has closed its local sports podcasts - even locking some podcasters out of posting final episodes. A long post by Kyle Scott Laskowski gives some potential reasons.
February 15, 2024:
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Brené Brown is bringing her former Spotify podcasts to VOX Media. Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead will be available on all platforms, and new seasons of both will be launched within the month. It’s the second Spotify exclusive to find a new home in two days; yesterday, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, signed with Lemonada.
January 29, 2024:
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The BBC's Brown Girls Do It Too is back for a new season. An award-winning podcast, it talks about things that we can't talk about in an email and still hope to get it through email firewalls. Vox Media put us into spam purgatory recently, as one example, and we're still not sure why. Anyway, if you know what "it" is, then this is for you.
December 29, 2023:
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In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, hear from 21 people across podcasting about their highlights of 2023, and predictions for 2024. More consolidation for podcast publishers, diversity in monetisation techniques, big-name retirements as podcasting reaches 20, and the benefit of multi-platform podcasting, it’s all in this episode: speakers include Acast’s Ross Adams, Vox Media’s Nayeema Raza, Skye Pillsbury from The Squeeze, Ausha’s Jennifer Han, and many more. Listen here.
December 6, 2023:
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Podcasting is coming to SXSW, with Vox Media partnering with the Conference to provide an Official Podcast Stage. A number of popular shows will be brought to the stage next March.
November 6, 2023:
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Apple Podcasts' PR person, Zach Kahn, is being promoted to PR for Apple Vision Pro. He was the first PR person for Apple Podcasts, joining from Vox Media in Jan 2020. We understand Apple Podcasts will gain a new PR representative next month.
October 25, 2023:
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It's a year since Elon Musk bought Twitter. Vox Media's Land of the Giants returns for a new series today. Hosted by Vox’s Peter Kafka, the show will tell the story of Twitter (now known as X) at a crucial moment for the platform, including interviews with former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, first VP of Product Jason Goldman, Yoel Roth, a former head of trust and safety along with additional early and recent employees.
October 2, 2023:
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Rob Byers has wrapped up a first month as Director of Audio at Vox Media.
August 16, 2023:
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Today, Explained will be aired nightly on 90.5 WESA in Pittsburgh PA. The show, made by Vox Media, has been slowly appearing on public radio across the US.
July 27, 2023:
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Vox Media's Land of the Giants, a narrative podcast about big tech, has a new season out today: it looks at twenty years of Tesla, including its forgotten origin story as well as its polarising CEO. If that's not enough Musk for you, in October, there'll be a new season on Twitter.
July 18, 2023:
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Vox Media is focusing on paid podcast subscriptions, says Ray Chao in an interview in Digiday. He highlights an issue with Apple Podcasts subscriptions, which doesn't allow the company to send subscribers their exclusive email newsletters.
July 11, 2023:
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Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel returns today with Vox Media, as the show turns to 'always-on'. The show joined Vox Media earlier in the year, after being a Spotify exclusive with Gimlet since 2019. It's being produced by Magnificent Noise.
June 23, 2023:
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Vox Media's Criminal has launched Criminal Plus, a subscription product that will offer additional benefits including a quarterly subscriber-only virtual event, free and discounted merchandise, and more.
June 7, 2023:
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Lillian Xu is joining Vox Media as the Executive Director of the audio business. She joins from New York Public Radio. We're also told she plays pickleball, which we fondly imagined was a game played with actual pickles, probably in a bar at the end of a long night. It turns out not to be.
May 5, 2023:
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Podtrac unveiled April 2023's rankers. Vox Media debuted at #10 in the publishers list with 6mn US listeners. The Daily is #1 podcast.
March 14, 2023:
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Spotify has lost another exclusive podcast. Where Should We Begin, with Esther Perel, which became a Spotify Original produced by Gimlet in 2019. The show has found a new home at Vox Media. It will become a weekly, always-on show from Q3. The company laid off 7% of its staff in a cost-cutting move in January.
March 1, 2023:
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Up Against The Mob returns for a second season today from the Vox Media Podcast Network and Cafe. In The Springfield Crew, host Elie Honig will revisit one of the most pivotal cases of his career – a Springfield mob story that helped unravel one of America’s most notorious crime families.
February 24, 2023:
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The Podnews Extra podcast has an additional long-form interview with Nayeema Raza, Director/Executive Producer of On with Kara Swisher, a Vox Media podcast. She spoke with Sam Sethi about video podcasts and the benefit of doing live shows.
February 9, 2023:
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The Pitch has launched a new season - the first since partnering with Vox Media last year. The show features investors being pitched by entrepreneurs, and sees over $900,000 being invested.
January 23, 2023:
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Seven audio workers have been laid off by Vox Media, reports Vox Media's Hot Pod, including the team producing Cover Story. Vox Media declined to give exact figures. Around 130 people were laid off in total, or 7% of the workforce. Spotify is also to cut staff this week, according to Bloomberg.
November 15, 2022:
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The Pitch has joined the Vox Media Podcast Network; the show remains independently owned, but Vox will take on sales, marketing and distribution. It will release its first season with Vox Media in February 2023.
November 11, 2022:
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In Little America: The Official Podcast, Goran Velijic: a man who will get you married in 60 seconds. It's an Apple Original podcast, produced with Vox Media.
November 3, 2022:
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Spotify has added podcast recommendations to the top of some podcast pages in the app. Spotted by Chris Messina, On with Kara Swisher's page recommends Into it with Sam Sanders. Both are Vox Media podcasts.
September 8, 2022:
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Kara Swisher is to produce a new interview podcast in partnership with Vox Media and New York Magazine. On with Kara Swisher will launch on Sept 26.
August 1, 2022:
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Vox Media is to lay off 39 employees and slow its hiring, blaming deteriorating economic conditions.
July 29, 2022:
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Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders has been announced from the Vox Media Podcast Network and New York Magazine. A new flagship culture podcast, it'll be hosted by Sam Sanders and launched yesterday.
June 8, 2022:
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Kara Swisher is to leave The New York Times and return to Vox Media, and will host a new interview show there.
June 3, 2022:
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Vox Media's union is threatening a strike. A search for
#VoxContractNow on Twitter shows the strength of feelings; the company publishes, among others, The Verge, Hot Pod, and Today, Explained.
May 12, 2022:
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At the IAB Podcast Upfronts, Sony Music Entertainment revealed their slate of upcoming podcasts. Vox Media presented The Verge's Nilay Patel talking with talent from across the Vox Media Podcast Network.
May 10, 2022:
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Avishay Artsy and Jonquilyn Hill are joining Vox Media as senior producers. Artsy, who'll be working on Today, Explained, moves from a life as a freelancer; Hill joins from WAMU and will be developing new shows.
March 9, 2022:
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Sam Sanders, who we reported was leaving NPR, is to join Vox Media to host their culture podcast.
February 9, 2022:
Lemonada, The Tiny Chef Show, Vox Media, AconiteCo, Spotify, Crooked Media, WNYC, and BeWokeVote. But you don't have to be a household name to win. Each year, indepdendent creators smaller teams make a big splash at The Webby Awards. You could be next.
January 28, 2022:
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Another podcast has made it to TV - Recode and Vox Media's Land of the Giants has been snapped up by CNN+. The show will be available on CNN's streaming service at launch.
January 19, 2022:
Crooked Media, Vox Media, WNYC, Wondery, Pineapple Street Media, and beloved shows like Keep It!, Why Won't You Date Me, And That's Why We Drink, Tai Asks Why and more.
January 5, 2022:
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Caila Litman is to oversee a new research project for Sounds Profitable. She's worked at Condé Nast and Vox Media.
January 4, 2022:
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Rob Byers is to join Vox Media's Criminal Productions as fulltime Technical Director. He's currently Director of Broadcast and Media Operations at American Public Media, and a Board Member of AIR; he's been mixing Criminal and This Is Love for many years. Vox Media is hiring for a number of production staff.
November 30, 2021:
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The first investigative series podcast from New York magazine, Cover Story is released today. Produced with the Vox Media Podcast Network, the first season, Power Trip, uncovers the truth behind the psychedelic revolution.
November 17, 2021:
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Vox Media has acquired Criminal Productions. Founded by former public radio journalists Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer, Criminal Productions is responsible for Criminal, This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. The shows were with PRX's Radiotopia network.
October 22, 2021:
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NiemanLab highlights a way that Vox Media has added "an immersive transcript" to help a podcast be accessible to those that are deaf and hard of hearing.
September 8, 2021:
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Hot Pod has been acquired by Vox Media. Senior reporter for The Verge, Ashley Carman, will be the new lead writer for the newsletter; Nick Quah, who launched Hot Pod in 2014, will become a full-time podcast reviewer. Hot Pod will remain at $7/month, becoming
August 12, 2021:
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Vox Media's The Weeds has two new co-hosts: Jerusalem Demsas and German Lopez.
August 11, 2021:
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Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast has joined the Vox Media Podcast network. Hosted by YouTube tech reviewer Marques Brownlee and Andrew Manganelli, it's a weekly show also shot for YouTube.
August 4, 2021:
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Longform has joined the Vox Media Podcast Network. It's a long-running interview podcast co-hosted by Max Linsky, Aaron Lammer, and Evan Ratliff.
July 29, 2021:
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First look: Acast has expanded its Acast Creative unit to the US, to work with sellers and production partners to offer new creative solutions. Shantae Howell has been appointed Creative Director of the Americas; she joins from Vox Media.
July 23, 2021:
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Gastropod, a food, science and history podcast, has joined the Vox Media Network, working with Eater.
June 22, 2021:
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Ariel Helwani has announced he is to do an exclusive show for Spotify's The Ringer within Spotify Greenroom. "We'll do a live show, with callers and taking your questions, and it'll be made available as a podcast": this sounds like the first announcement of Greenroom being used as a podcast source. Additionally, The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani returns to SB Nation and the Vox Media Network from mid-August, the companies have announced.
June 15, 2021:
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First look: Land of the Giants releases a new season today from Vox Media, Recode and food blog Eater: Delivery Wars, examining how food delivery became a multi-billion dollar industry, and the effects it has had on restaurants, workers, and consumers.
June 2, 2021:
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The first new show from Vox Media Podcast Network and Cafe has launched: Now & Then is a weekly podcast hosted by historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman, exploring current events in the context of American history.
May 21, 2021:
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Our technical review of the site shows that audio from companies like NPR, Vox Media and others appears to play from
m3.podclips.com; we've asked the company - which doesn't give an address on their website - for clarification of their licensing agreements.
April 12, 2021:
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Vox Media is to buy Cafe Studios Inc, founded by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (above) and his brother Vinit Bharara. It publishes a slate of shows including Stay Tuned with Preet. No terms were given.
March 26, 2021:
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Samsung has launched Samsung Podcasts within the Samsung Free app in the US. The service offers instant access to "thousands of podcasts" from publishers like American Public Media, CNN Audio, Conde Nast, iHeartMedia, Kast Media, Motley Fool, NPR, PodcastOne, PRX, This American Life, Vox Media Podcast Network and Barstool Sports. Both Blubrry Podcasting and Libsyn have announced a launch partnership: both require you to specifically add your podcasts to the service. Samsung has a roughly 25% market share in the US; this is available now on Galaxy S21, Galaxy S20, Galaxy Note 20, Galaxy S10, and Galaxy Note 10 devices.
March 24, 2021:
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The Prof G Show with Scott Galloway is going twice-weekly and is joining Pivot at the Vox Media Podcast Network. The company has also announces expansion plans for Pivot, too, including video and live events.
March 17, 2021:
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Unexplainable from Vox Media is an expansion of their "Explainer" franchise, according to Digiday: the company also produces Today, Explained and a show on Netflix just entitled "Explained".
February 17, 2021:
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Land of the Giants from Vox Media is back for a third season: this time, telling the inside story from the Googleplex.
February 3, 2021:
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Switched on Pop has joined New York Magazine's Vulture. It signed with Vox Media two years ago; the show will retain the hosts.
December 18, 2020:
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Vox Media Studios is to double the amount of shows it makes and plans to bring in $100m in revenue, in 2021.
December 2, 2020:
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The buzz is that Eric Johnson, formerly of Vox Media, has launched his own independent podcasting company. Johnson produced Kara Swisher's Recode Decode: "Bumblecast" will offer consulting and produce original shows.
October 2, 2020:
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Vox Media Podcast Network and Epic have collaborated on a new show, Go for Broke, which is out today. The podcast is on bubbles, and the irrational enthusiasm that creates them - the first season focuses on the dot-com bubble.
August 7, 2020:
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The Cut returns to audio with a new weekly podcast from the Vox Media Podcast Network. Avery Trufelman (99% Invisible) is the host, leading "an ensemble of voices engaged in the conversations that matter most to women and those who love them". It returns on August 19.
July 9, 2020:
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Hanna Rosin (NPR, Invisibilia) has joined New York magazine as 'editorial director for audio'. She'll also be working closely with the Vox Media Podcast Network team.
June 29, 2020:
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What effect has the pandemic had on podcasts in India? Not much, says Indus Vox Media's Amit Doshi, in an interview in Quartz India.
June 24, 2020:
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Land of the Giants is back for a new season: focusing on Netflix, and how a tiny tech company disrupted Hollywood forever. Produced by Vox Media Podcast Network, it's narrated by Recode's Peter Kafka and Rani Molla.
March 11, 2020:
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Pivot has launched its own YouTube channel, with an in-video version of the podcast. We're told that the hosts "see the channel as another way of engaging with the show’s devoted fanbase". (Vox Media)
February 20, 2020:
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New York Media merged with Vox Media at the end of last year; and Vulture's Good One podcast, a podcast about jokes and the people that tell them, is relaunching as a weekly Vox Media podcast. It's the first to officially enter the Vox Media fold. (Megaphone)
January 28, 2020:
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Vox Media now generates over $10m a year from podcasting, says Marty Moe, the company's president.
December 19, 2019:
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Vox Media's Zach Kahn has joined Apple Podcasts, in the clearest indication yet that Apple may be planning original content.
October 28, 2019:
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Zack Kahn from Vox Media adds on his personal Twitter that "we are building a billion dollar industry on late 90s tech, and it's going to really hurt us unless we start modernising", and "even the best podcast hosting providers are doing a C+/B job". We helped a podcast publisher with an issue with Apple Podcasts last week: their podcast host had let them upload the wrong sized image, and had also allowed them to upload a VBR audio file. Both of these issues are easily caught by simple software routines, and are obvious best practice.
October 21, 2019:
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Vox Media now has 200 podcasts. The company had only 75 in January. Axios reports that podcasting for the company is "an eight figure business".
September 26, 2019:
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Elsewhere in business: Audity is a new podcast company in Konstans Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bill Burr and Al Madrigal’s All Things Comedy has announced a partnership with Wondery. Red Herring focuses on Acast's recent expansion to Germany. And Vox Media has bought New York Magazine.
August 12, 2019:
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Eater's Digest is new, promising the wildest, most important stories from restaurants and kitchens around the world. (Vox Media / Eater / Megaphone)
August 6, 2019:
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In Washington DC, Vox Media are looking for a part-time Engagement Manager for Podcasts. (Podjobs is free for your job posting, too).
July 23, 2019:
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Land of the Giants launched today - all about the five giants of the internet, going by the not sinister name of FAANG. The first season focuses on the rise of Amazon. (Recode / Vox Media / Megaphone)
June 10, 2019:
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Spotify has launched a "Daily Podcast Playlist", spotted by Vox Media's Zack Kahn. Evo Terra notes that it "appears to contain ten new episodes of shows you are subscribed to (in Spotify), a short clip telling you to try something new, and nine episodes from popular shows." We're not seeing it; but the only podcast we subscribe to in Spotify is this one.
June 4, 2019:
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Also from Apple's WWDC - in the next version of iOS on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple Podcasts will be on the front screen, "right next to one of the most used apps in the world — the App Store", notes Vox Media's Zach Kahn in a tweet. He says this will help first-time listeners discover podcasts.
May 31, 2019:
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Vox Media have announced their Spring 2019 slate, including season 4 of Why'd You Push That Button?. Vox Media Podcast Network now represents over 100 active podcasts.
May 21, 2019:
Welcome to almost 400 new subscribers in May so far, including people from Himalaya, PodcastOne Australia, Media Monitors, Cadence13, Vox Media, ESPN, Luminary, Acast, NRK, NPR, Spotify, PRX, ARN and Radio-Canada. Please, tell your colleagues (and tell your HR people about our free jobs board).
May 20, 2019:
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Anaheim Calling, an SB Nation podcast about the Anaheim Ducks, is now part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, they've announced.
May 10, 2019:
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Primetime is a new seasonal podcast about the history of television and its impact on American culture. (Vox Media / Megaphone)
April 18, 2019:
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Vox Media has purchased Epic Magazine.
February 20, 2019:
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Vox Media is expanding its partnership with Stitcher to make a technology news podcast from Recode. The deal is described as "multi-million dollar". They have a fancy new website to celebrate.
February 7, 2019:
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Zack Kahn (Vox Media) compares podcasting to radio - even with this big purchase of perhaps $260m, radio is still worth US$19bn. "We've got a ways to go", he adds.
February 6, 2019:
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Switched on Pop has joined the Vox Media Podcast Network. It's Vox's first music-based podcast: the company now has a roster of eight shows.
January 4, 2019:
Welcome to our recent new subscribers, including folk from Spotify, Havas Edge, Audioboom, Vox Media, Gimlet Media, and broadcasters BR, NPR, SRF, ITN and NPO. Tell your colleagues!
November 13, 2018:
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October 24, 2018:
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It Seemed Smart was launched yesterday by Vox Media and SB Nation. Promised are absurd stories of stolen bats, pirated play calls, renegade cross-country road racers, and fantasy football's own insider trading scandal. (SB Nation / Vox Media / ART19)
September 26, 2018:
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Vox Media have released their Q3 2018 slate of podcasts, which more than doubles the size of the podcast network. New podcasts announced include new titles from Recode and SB Nation.
July 6, 2018:
Thank you to our 98 new subscribers this week, including excellent folk from CliffCentral, Stabl, Radio France, Bavarian media regulator BLM, Radio NRW, Southern Cross Austereo, Vox Media, A&E Networks and Panoply.
April 27, 2018:
Thank you to our new subscribers this week, including fine folk from Hindenburg Systems, FBI Radio, Castbox, Panoply, Wondery, Spotify, NPR, VOX Media, Storiyoh, ABC Australia, SBS Australia, Engle, the BBC, the Belgian Standaard and MTG Radio. You're very welcome!
March 15, 2018:
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VOX Media's Racked website writes a piece about the clothes women wear while podcasting, entitled "Why podcasters love lipstick and pyjamas". For clarity, I am wearing neither.
February 22, 2018:
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Vox Media is making 50 staffers redundant: the cuts mostly target social media video teams, according to the Hollywood Reporter. That's about 5% of total staff.
February 14, 2018:
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In HotPod 151, Nick Quah looks into Vox Media's afternoon podcast Today, Explained, which we covered yesterday; and talks to Fusion Media Group (owners of The Onion) about their plans in podcasting.
February 13, 2018:
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VOX Media is to launch a new daily podcast called Today, Explained. Hosted by Sean Rameswaram, there's a trailer up now with a song. It starts February 19th and is aimed at your afternoon commute.
January 25, 2018:
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Digital media company Vox Media has a new marketing lead for podcasts: Zach Kahn, who's worked with the company since May 2016.