“Bill Simmons Will Remain As Head of Talk Strategy at Spotify After Reupping His Contract There. The PodCast Host and Executive Joined Spotify in 2020, After The Company Bought His Website and Podcast Company, The Ringer. That podcast Network Now Includes Over 50 Popular Podcasts, Including the Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables and the Ryen”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The PodCast Host and Executive Joined Spotify in 2020, After The Company Bought His Website and Podcast Company, The Ringer. That podcast Network Now Includes Over 50 Popular Podcasts, Including The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables an The Ryen Russillo Podcast.
Simmons Will Report to the New Head of Podcast Business, Roman Wasenmülling.
“Spotify is One of the Best Content Companies in the World,“ He Said. “I’ve been in theough work situations at this point that you just kinda know when you’re in the right Spot. I Think All of US Are Motivated to Do Something Pretty Special In The Talk and Video Space. ”
The Company Notes that Ringer Has Been Adding Video Episodes to The Majority of Its Podcast Titles, As Sportify Now Views Video As a Larger Part of Its Platform. The Podcast Network Produces More Than 100 Hours of Weekly Content.
SPotify Acquired the Ringer as Part of A Bigger Push Into Both the Sports and Entertainment Space, and the Podcasting Business, Which It Saw As Revenue-Generating Expaning. The Company Had Acquired Podcasting Companies Gimlet and ParCast in 2019, as part of that Push, But Has Since Scaled Back Some of Those Effrts. SPotify Later Merged Gimlet and ParCast Into the Sportify Studios Division, and Both Studios Were Hit with A Number of Show Cancellies and Layoffs. The Company have also ceded exclusive distribution of it Popular Podcasts.
The Ringer Also Has Production Shingle Ringer Films and Has Produced The HBO Documentaries André The Giant, Showbiz Kidsand Music Box.
Simmons Launchened the Ringer in 2016, After HE LEFT ESPN, WHERE HE STARTED THE WEBSITE GRANTLAND.
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