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- Jan 9: After a former Barstool Sports podcaster, the comedian Grace O’Malley, made claims about her pay, Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy clarified her exact wages in a TikTok video: a base salary of $175,000 a year, and earnings of 70% of ads sold on her personal socials (a further $75,000 last year). “I just don't like when people make it seem like we scam our creators because we don’t,” he said.
- Nov 18, 2024: The founder of Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, is to leave BFFs with Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards, and Brianna Chickenfry. He says he's uninterested in the topics, and becoming too old; and there's been other drama that we assume some people care about.
- Jan 30, 2024: Jen Simons has been hired as Chief Content Officer at Silver Tribe Media. She joins from 100 Thieves and Barstool Sports. Lagen Nash has been confirmed as Chief Revenue Officer, joining from Misfits Gaming Group.
- Jan 17, 2024: Erika Ayers Badan is to leave her role as CEO at Barstool Sports. She posted a video to Twitter saying she is “super sad”. Dave Portnoy added: “It's been quite a run and we couldn't have done it without her.”
- Jan 16, 2023: What will Joe Rogan do when his Spotify contract is up for renewal? Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy was on Joe Rogan's show on Jan 5, and asked how Rogan dealt with the controversy last year (from 1hr21m). "Spotify stood by me the way they stand by rappers", Rogan said, but then acknowledged that he'd have been removed from the platform if he wasn't as successful. He added 2m subscribers during the negative publicity, he said; and Rogan also railed against YouTube's demonetisation policy which apparently affected 25-30% of his videos prior to his Spotify deal.
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