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- Jun 27: Two Guys, Five Rings: Matt, Bowen & The Olympics is new from iHeartMedia and NBCUniversal - hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang and Actor/Comedian Matt Rogers. The team break down the top storylines, discuss the athletes to watch and their results, obsess over Paris culture and find out what really goes on in the Olympic Village. It's part of an iHeartMedia and NBCU collaboration for the Olympics.
- Jun 14: Adam Bowie looks at the recent Edison Podcast Metrics UK top 25 data. So does Bill Rogers, who points out some inconsistencies with other public data.
- May 30: “I’m still in shock, and I’m also very sad.” The closure by Rogers of Pacific Content is the subject of a blog post by its co-founder Steve Pratt, who says “the Pacific Content/Rogers story holds both lessons and warnings.”
- May 28: One of the largest branded podcast companies in North America, Pacific Content, a division of Canada’s Rogers, is to close. The company, which was founded in 2014, was bought by Rogers in 2019. “With economic challenges in this market over the past few years, we’ve decided to focus on our core audio business – creating meaningful content for Canadian audiences and advertisers,” said a spokesperson. We’re told that the impacted team members are all those who worked on and supported Pacific Content directly (a mix of content and administrative roles); most team members are based in Vancouver.
- Mar 4: How much does the BBC pay for a 14-minute podcast? More than $6,000 per episode, according to Bill Rogers. A radio feature would give you less than $900.
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