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November 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.

January 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.

January 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.”

January 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.

October 28, 2022:

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is no longer doing his podcast, The Dave Portnoy Show. He says his show was terrible. "I'm not going to do content that I know stinks," he added.

August 18, 2022:

Penn Entertainment has told the SEC that it plans to to purchase the remaining shares of Barstool Sports for $387m. It bought 36% of the company in 2020.

June 15, 2022:

Sports podcaster Blue Wire "wants to challenge ESPN and Barstool Sports", says an article in Front Office Sports.

March 9, 2022:

Mikey Fowler has been made VP and GM of a new podcast production house, Audiorama. He was previously at Barstool Sports. The company launches its first podcast today, called Youth Inc, which is hosted by Adori Labs.

February 8, 2022:

AdLarge has welcomed Late Night Drive with Ellie Schnitt to its portfolio, the former host of the Barstool Sports podcast Schnitt Talk, focusing on mental health, love, and navigating adult life.

November 8, 2021:

Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, has denied sexual misconduct accusations, reports NBC. Stock of the Barstool Sports owner, Penn National Gaming, had plunged 20% following the news, which also coincided with poor Q3/21 results.

September 22, 2021:

Steve Perrault has been hired as Senior Producer for MLB content by Audacy's 2400Sports podcast studio. He joins from Barstool Sports.

June 16, 2021:

Call Her Daddy is to become an exclusive with Spotify from July 21, moving away from Barstool Sports. Spotify gets the back catalogue too. The deal is reportedly worth $60m, "a source familiar with the pact" said, which Variety claims makes it the biggest exclusive deal for a woman-led podcast to date.

March 26, 2021:

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.

February 3, 2021:

A MediaRadar study ($) says that ad-spend on podcasts was up 11% year-on-year in Q4 2020. "The top five podcast producers in terms of ad revenue last year were NPR, iHeartRadio, Barstool Sports, Wondery and The Daily Wire, which collectively captured 33% of all podcast ad revenue".

May 21, 2020:

The duo responsible for Call Her Daddy are, according to Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, "unprofessional, disloyal and greedy" according to a new podcast in their feed, reports The New York Times.

April 29, 2020:

There's a free webinar this morning (at 8.30am Pacific), called "State of Podcasting Amid COVID-19", being run by Ad Results Media with guests from Edison Research, NPR, Barstool Sports and Freakonomics.

January 30, 2020:

Casino company Penn National has bought Barstool Sports, a sports podcasting and publishing company. Penn National gets a third of the company now for $163m, and will increase its share to 50% after three years.

January 17, 2020:

The hosts of Call Her Daddy appear to have upset a columnist at the NYPost. "They lack the basic savvy and grace to make it in this industry", says Kirsten Fleming, adding "they're just really uptight frauds". Ouch. (Barstool Sports)

January 13, 2020:

Barstool Sports is about to be bought by a casino operator, if Vox is to be believed. They announced in August that podcasts make a third of the company's revenue.

August 27, 2019:

Barstool Sports say that podcasts now form about a third of the company's revenue.

May 31, 2019:

Welcome to over 140 new subscribers in the past week, including folk from Swiss Radio and Television, ART19, ESPN, Barstool Sports, Dave Ramsey, RAI, and Radio-Canada.

April 25, 2019:

Three more publishers have pulled their content off Luminary. Mikey Fowler, EP of Podcasting for Barstool Sports (8th currrently in Podtrac), tells us that they have requested all of their RSS feeds be removed from Luminary, which would mean a total of 26 shows will be unavailable. Endeavor Audio podcasts have been withdrawn from the service, and the Joe Rogan Experience is also removed - that's been replaced with another characteristically snippy message. The subscription podcast app launched earlier this week with high-profile podcasts from Spotify, Gimlet Media, Parcast and the NYT's The Daily being unavailable.

February 8, 2019:

PodcastOne, the US podcast producer, has a new Chief Executive: Peter Morris (AirBnB, Barstool Sports, IMAX). Founder Norm Pattiz, 75, remains Executive Chairman.