The Ringer
Owned by: Spotify
Latest news
- Oct 24: Blue Wire has announced nine new shows, including two shows moving from The Ringer.
- Sep 19:
Bill Simmons, Founder & CEO, The Ringer, Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Lemonada Media, Ben Cave, Global Head of Podcasts, Apple, Jenna Weiss-Berman, Head of Audio & Podcasts, Paper Kite Productions, Bob Carrigan, CEO, Audible and Shreeya Sinha, Executive Editor, Audio, The New York Times.
- Jun 6: Spotify’s podcast division has made fifteen layoffs, including staff at The Ringer. The cuts are apparently the result of a focus away from audio and towards video. Spotify declined to comment.
- Mar 19: Good Hang with Amy Poehler launched yesterday - a video podcast with Spotify's The Ringer. The first two episodes include Tina Fey and Martin Short. Amy will talk to famous people about what makes them laugh, what they found funny recently, and more; it's with Paper Kite Productions.
- Mar 13: Five years after Spotify bought his podcast network The Ringer, founder Bill Simmons is to stay with Spotify, the company has announced. He will “remain at Spotify as Head of Talk Strategy”, a company spokesperson tells Podnews - remaining at Spotify he is, but that’s a new job title, though - he was previously Head of Podcast Monetization and Innovation, but at first appeared to be ignoring the innovation of video on Spotify, preferring instead to promote YouTube. He’ll report into Head of Podcast Business, Roman Wasenmüller.
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