NEW FOX AUDIO NETWORK ANNOUNCES COMPREHENSIVE ADVERTISING AND DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP WITH MEGAPHONE
New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA – March 2, 2022 – Fox Company’s (“FOX”) (Nasdaq: FOXA, FOX) newly established FOX Audio Community, which mixes all of FOX’s main information, sports activities, and leisure podcasts right into a scaled, various portfolio of unique audio content material, as we speak introduced a complete promoting and distribution take care of Megaphone, a Spotify firm because the unique internet hosting platform for his or her rising slate.
FOX has lengthy been a frontrunner within the podcasting area, creating category-defining unique content material throughout genres. By collaboration and innovation, the FOX Audio Community was created to seize the facility of the collective viewers throughout the rising slate of FOX unique audio content material.
The outsized attain of the FOX Audio Community’s 60+ podcasts creates a novel alternative for advertisers to entry the broadest doable viewers throughout all the hottest FOX unique audio content material effectively and successfully.
“The institution of the FOX Audio Community offers distinctive alternatives for advertisers to succeed in a broad viewers of our loyal podcast listeners throughout a various vary of programming genres from our total portfolio,” stated Dan Realson, Senior Vice President, Digital Advert Gross sales, FOX Information Media. “Podcasts proceed to be a preferred and quickly rising medium and we’re excited to collaborate with Spotify’s Megaphone to carry this chance on to the promoting market.”
FOX Audio Community promoting shall be managed by the FOX Advert Gross sales staff with extra stock being bought via the Spotify Viewers Community. Megaphone, one of many world’s most progressive podcast publishing platforms, will empower FOX Audio Community to monetize, measure, and develop FOX’s podcast content material and audiences via best-in-class publishing and monetization instruments. Since its launch in 2015, Megaphone has been one of many main podcasting platforms for enterprise podcast publishers. Megaphone manages greater than twice the variety of the highest 200 reveals than the subsequent largest podcasting platform.
The quickly increasing FOX Audio Community portfolio options over forty FOX Information podcasts, together with “The FOX Information Radio Hourly Newscast,” “Bret Baier’s All-Star Panel,” “The Will Cain Podcast,” “The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum” and “The 5 Podcast,” which collectively delivered practically 180M distinctive downloads and 29.9M distinctive listeners in 2021, up 18% and 15% respectively from the prior yr and a report excessive. A brand new addition to the FOX Information podcast slate, “The FOX Enterprise Tax Suggestions Podcast” debuts as we speak.
Subsequent up from FOX Sports activities podcasts, is the brand new “What’s Wright with Nick Wright,” that includes the veteran host of FOX Sports activities’ morning present “First Issues First,” which is able to debut March 15. The lineup of FOX Sports activities podcasts noticed over 60M downloads in 2021, led by “Membership Shay Shay,” hosted by Shannon Sharpe, which was up 270% YOY and ranked because the #2 podcast in U.S. Sports activities on Apple Podcasts.
Different new and upcoming FOX Audio Community choices embody “It is Tough with Raquel Harper,” that includes longtime host and information producer Raquel Harper interviewing probably the most newsworthy names in black tradition from TMZ and “Outkick The Present with Clay Travis” and “Outkick 360,” which carry Outkick’s signature fearless and distinctive voice to the intersection of sports activities, politics and leisure. “Wesley,” a serialized podcast narrated and directed by Tom Rinaldi will debut in April from FOX Sports activities adopted by the FOX Climate podcast later this yr.
The entire FOX Audio Community podcasts will proceed to be discovered on every of their respective platforms in addition to wherever listeners obtain their favourite podcasts. Go to FOXAudioNetwork.com to view the whole lineup of podcasts.
ABOUT FOX CORPORATION
Fox Company produces and distributes compelling information, sports activities and leisure content material via its iconic home manufacturers together with, FOX Information Media, FOX Sports activities, FOX Leisure and FOX Tv Stations, and main AVOD service Tubi. These manufacturers maintain cultural significance with customers and industrial significance for distributors and advertisers. The breadth and depth of our footprint permits us to ship content material that engages and informs audiences, develop deeper shopper relationships, and create extra compelling product choices. FOX maintains a formidable monitor report of reports, sports activities, and leisure {industry} success that shapes our technique to capitalize on present strengths and spend money on new initiatives. For extra details about Fox Company, please go to www.FoxCorporation.com.
ABOUT MEGAPHONE
Megaphone, a Spotify firm, is the industry-leading podcasting platform for enterprise publishers {and professional} podcasters worldwide. With a complete suite of highly effective merchandise, Megaphone allows publishers to create, monetize, measure, and develop their podcast companies. Megaphone additionally powers the Spotify Viewers Community, connecting advertisers with probably the most immersed listeners and publishers with maximized income. Be taught extra at megaphone.fm and @MegaphonePods.
Media Contacts:
Lauren Townsend
Fox Company
310-369-2729
Lauren.townsend@fox.com
Kari Maharaj
Spotify
703.785.5425
kmaharaj@spotify.com
The Full FOX Audio Community Portfolio Contains:
FOX Information Media
- The FOX Information Rundown
- The FOX Information Rundown Night Version
- The FOX Information Rundown From Washington
- FOX Information Hourly Replace (5 Minute Newscast)
- FOX Information Radio 1 Minute Replace
- The 5 Podcast
- Kennedy Saves The Phrase
- Bret Baier’s All Star Panel
- The Ben Domenech Podcast
- The Will Cain Podcast
- MEDIA BUZZmeter with Howie Kurtz
- All the things shall be Okay with Dana Perino
- The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum
- Hemmer Time with Invoice Hemmer
- Livin’ The Bream Podcast with Shannon Bream
- The Trey Gowdy Podcast
- Jason within the Home: Jason Chaffetz Podcast
- From the Kitchen Desk: The Duffy’s – Sean and Rachel Duffy
- FOX Enterprise Hourly Report
- Everybody Talks To Liz Claman
- FOX on Tech Podcast
- Brian Kilmeade Present
- Fox Throughout America
- Man Benson Present
- The Tyrus and Timpf Podcast
- We’re Momming In the present day! with Lauren Simonetti
- Getting Schooled with Abby Hornacek
- The FOX High 5 Podcast
- The One w/ Greg Gutfeld
- Lighthouse Religion with Lauren Greene
- Riddle: The Search For James R. Hoffa (The Podcast)
- FOX Information Rewind – Documentary Sequence (2000 Election & 9/11 twentieth Anniversary)
- FOX Information Rewind: The Monetary Disaster of 2008 – Coming Fall 2022
- Proud American with Johnny Joey Jones
- The America Collectively Sequence Podcast
- FOX Nation Presents – Girls of the Bible – Hosted by Shannon Bream
- True Crime – FOX Information Investigates – Season 1 – The Derby Metropolis Betrayal
- True Crime – FOX Information Investigates – Season 2 – Home of Damaged Goals
- True Crime – FOX Information Investigates – Season 3 – Alchemy of Violence
- True Crime – FOX Information Investigates – Season 4 – Grim Tide – The Hunt for the Lengthy Island Serial Killer
- True Crime – FOX Information Investigates – Season 5 – Nightmare in Chowchilla
- FOX Information Sunday Podcast
- Journal Editorial Report Podcast
- The FOX Climate Podcast – Coming Quickly
- The FOX Enterprise Tax Suggestions Podcast – Premieres March 1st
FOX Sports activities
- Skip & Shannon: Undisputed
- First Issues First
- Communicate for Your self
- Breaking the Huddle with Joel Klatt
- Membership Shay Shay hosted by Shannon Sharpe
- Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union
- Out of Character with Ryan Satin
- The Folks’s Sports activities Podcast with Mark Titus & Charlotte Wilder
- Flippin’ Bats with Ben Verlander
- The No. 1 Ranked Present with RJ Younger
- The Skip Bayless Present
- What’s Wright with Nick Wright – Premieres March 15
- Wesley, a serialized podcast narrated and directed by Tom Rinaldi – Coming April 2022
Outkick
- Outkick The Present with Clay Travis
- The Fade with Clay and Todd
- Outkick 360
- Do not @ Me with Dan Dakich
TMZ
- The TMZ Podcast
- It is Tough with Raquel Harper