Gimlet
Networks and production companies
This company is no longer trading under this name
Owned by: Spotify
Latest news
- Jul 8: In Lightcatchers you'll hear the Ambie Nominated best podcast for kids returns with a second season: The Adventures of the Formerly Super Powered Forest Friends. A group of forest animals mysteriously lose their super powers and are on a mission to get them back. It's imaginative music-filled sonic theater. The show is produced by GUM Audio, Jonathon Roberts (Gimlet, Spotify, StoryPirates) and Dan Gummel (BibleProject)
- Jul 6: Let's go back to 2016, for Alex Blumberg - the co-founder of Gimlet Media, who spoke at Podcast Movement that year in a session entitled The Second Golden Age of Audio
- Apr 23: The Tribeca Festival has selected a sci-fi podcast, The Dolos Project, for its audio line-up. Podnews has first sight of the new video trailer, which begins in the aftermath of Earth’s nuclear annihilation. From a remote space station, co-pilots David and Sarah, alongside their AI companion SAI, may be the last remnants of humanity. The show is from Marcus and Megan Bagala, who have worked for top shows for DC (DC High Volume: Batman), Marvel, Star Trek: Khan, Gimlet, Spotify, and Wondery.
- Jun 11, 2025: In a recent episode of What If We Get It Right?, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has a reunion with her former podcast co-host, Alex Blumberg. Alex and her co-created How to Save a Planet, which ran for 2 years as Spotify’s flagship climate show. If you’ve been wondering what Alex has been doing since he left Gimlet and Spotify, he’s sharing his latest venture...
- Feb 26, 2025: Heavyweight is to return, as Jonathan Goldstein and his team of producers join Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries. The show will return later this year; it was with Gimlet, becoming a Spotify exclusive in Nov 2021. Spotify cancelled the show in Dec 2023.
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