Since the Gimlet deal's announcement, the Gimlet creative team made its plans to unionize known, although Gimlet and its legal counsel said they won't voluntarily recognize the union.
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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 08: Gimlet Media President Matt Lieber, Gimlet Media CEO Alex Blumberg (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Spotify) NEW YORK, NY – MAY 08: Gimlet Media President Matt Lieber, Gimlet Media CEO Alex Blumberg (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Spotify) 4.
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Earlier this week, Gimlet management "effectively declined" to recognize the union, Gimlet Union said in a tweet.
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I'm at Gimlet Media HQ, hard by exotic Gowanus Canal Superfund luxury condos, here with the Gimlet Media folks.
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Alex Blumberg, CEO of Gimlet MediaPhoto: GettyTwo weeks ago, members of the Gimlet Media staff announced its intentions to unionize.
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"As Spotify's reported $230 million acquisition of Gimlet makes clear, however, Gimlet is no longer the small, scrappy operation memorably documented on the first season of StartUp," the Gimlet organizing committee wrote in a statement published Wednesday.
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It's an ABC series based on the experiences of Gimlet cofounder Alex Blumberg with his podcast "StartUp," which helped launch Gimlet.
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In an October 6 Facebook post, Kine revealed that Gimlet quietly canceled the show in April: In April, Gimlet let me go.
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Eli Horowitz, who created the podcast here at Gimlet, he's a Gimlet producer, is one of the executive producers and is showrunning it.
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ABC already plans to turn StartUp — a documentary series that started by following Gimlet co-founder Alex Blumberg's attempt to build Gimlet — into a sitcom.
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Spotify says it paid $340M to buy Gimlet and Anchor Spotify doubled down on podcasts last week with a deal to buy podcast companies Gimlet and Anchor.
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Spotify completed its acquisition of Gimlet earlier this month, and while Gimlet will continue to operate as a stand-alone unit, the two companies are beginning to merge operations.
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Graphic: Gimlet Union twitterAfter over a month of private and not-so-private squabbling, the management of podcasting firm Gimlet has recognized a union composed of staffers at the company.
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Terms of the deals with Gimlet and Anchor were not disclosed, but late last week, Recode and Vulture podcast critic Nicholas Quah reported Gimlet would sell for north of $252 million.
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It wrapped up, not because Blumberg's company, Gimlet Media, is closing or downsizing, but because it's now a division of music-streaming service Spotify, which acquired Gimlet earlier this year for $200 million.
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Recode reports Spotify paid around $230 million for Gimlet alone.
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Spotify is buying two major podcasting companies, Gimlet and Anchor.
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Gimlet still has several popular podcasts to fall back on.
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This August, Gimlet closed a $15 million round of investment.
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I'll take that in my feathered chapeau, and a gimlet.
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But that's still a good outcome for the Gimlet guys.
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I just finished Heavy Weight which is also from Gimlet.
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The roots of the gimlet are murky at best, anyway.
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" That last part may change: For example, another podcast network, Gimlet Media, now has a unit called Gimlet Creative, which this year created a six-episode "branded podcast" for eBay called "Open for Business.
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Yeah, so Gimlet Media is an audio-first digital media company.
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ML: Gimlet Pictures is growing fastest off the smallest space. Yep.
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According to Recode, Spotify is paying around $230 million for Gimlet.
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Gimlet will operate as a studio under a bigger parent corporation.
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The more prominent ones are the investments going into Gimlet Media.
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With a gimlet look, she let him know she knew him.
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We are not spared a gimlet-eyed glimpse of the Troubles.
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He's invested in companies like Anchor, Gimlet Media, Huggingface, and Shine.
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"We've prepared most of the meal," said Mr. Lieber, of Gimlet.
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Hosted by Gimlet co-founder Alex Blumberg, Gimlet Academy walks wannabe podcasters through the process of creating a show, including how to pitch an idea, identifying and capturing "good tape," and putting a full story together.
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Recode first reported that Spotify and Gimlet were in talks last week.
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She asked the bow-tied barkeep, Bix, to bring me a gimlet.
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Mystery Show is the only show this has happened to at Gimlet.
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I took the last sip from the gimlet and opened the napkin.
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""We welcome the storytellers at Gimlet to our community of creative professionals.
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"We created an I.P. factory," Matt Lieber, the president of Gimlet, said.
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Part of me wants to ask you to fix me a gimlet.
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Yeah. Gimlet, so Gimlet was the first sort of big podcasting house founded by Alex Blumberg from Planet Money, formerly of This American Life, and Matt Lieber who had been around in public radio for a long time.
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As such, it's been a tough category for startups like Gimlet to crack.
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Gimlet is also looking to further tailor its programming for emerging tech platforms.
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"Angels in America," however, is no gimlet-eyed critique of homo high jinks.
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Or try a ginger gimlet and a smoked old fashioned with local whiskey.
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We understand that Gimlet Media employees began those conversations prior to our acquisition.
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Earlier this month, Gimlet took advantage of bullish outlook by raising $15 million.
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Gimlet in particular has demonstrated an ability to make money hand over fist.
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When you raise... The Gimlet guys just sold their company for $230 million.
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If the VCs were truly excited about it, Gimlet maybe wouldn't have sold.
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Earlier this month, podcast network Gimlet Media also raised $15 million in funding.
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As mentioned, Spotify, or shall we say Spodify, gobbled up Gimlet and Anchor.
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Reply All by Gimlet MediaBeitelspacher less frequently also recommends Reply All to students.
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Something's wrong if your gimlet, cosmo, or other shaken cocktail isn't ice cold.
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And he has kept up his gimlet-eyed observations of the Trump administration.
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Suddenly, I was casting a gimlet eye on everything else in the house.
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Add it to heighten the flavors in your next sidecar, caipirinha or gimlet.
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Add it to heighten the flavors in your next sidecar, caipirinha or gimlet.
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Here's "Crimetown," Gimlet Media's podcast about organized crime in Providence, R.I. You're welcome.
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It has also invested in podcast maker Gimlet Media and internet news site Axios.
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In other words, Gimlet has been hailed as a model of ethical startup success.
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Gimlet has recently expanded its focus into pitching adaptations of its podcasts to Hollywood.
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Two weeks ago, members of the Gimlet Media staff announced its intentions to unionize.
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The team has launched a new Gimlet Union Twitter feed, outlining the team's asks.
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Robert Simonson has a fine one for a Gillette — it's like a dry gimlet.
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In February, for example, Spotify bought podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor for $340 million.
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Did anyone else listen to season one of StartUp, Alex Blumberg's OG Gimlet podcast?
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Other partners include JetBlue, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and Gimlet Media.
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It also acquired several podcast networks and podcast startups, including Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor.
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Talks between WarnerMedia and Simmons stopped before news that Spotify was buying Gimlet broke.
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We've reached peak internet over here at the Sheridan Room with our #babyyoda gimlet.
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Spotify's purchase of Gimlet and Anchor has already changed the industry's atmosphere, Quah argues.
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It might not be a hit but they all are ... like Gimlet selling. Sold!
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It's so interesting to me that Gimlet has sold now for $300 million dollars.
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Blumberg's Gimlet Media is one of many organizations benefitting from the renewed interest in podcasting.
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"It's an inflection point for the industry," says Matthew Lieber, co-founder of Gimlet Media.
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The main difference between when Matt Lieber cofounded Gimlet Media three years ago and now?
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Gimlet was founded in 2014 and produces popular podcasts including Reply All, StartUp, and Crimetown.
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It acquired two podcast networks — Gimlet Media and Parcast — both of which make popular shows.
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It's a side effect of being the glamorous, gimlet-drinking social overlords of wizard society.
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Ugo, unsurprisingly, has a more gimlet eye: "I want young," he instructs his casting director.
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I'm not going to give you a basil gimlet made with soju instead of gin.
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Gimlet-eyed, we see the world as it is, and we won't get fooled again.
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But this meant he sometimes clashed with his collaborators and their more gimlet-eyed sensibilities.
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Looking at its prior acquisitions, Spotify didn't immediately move Gimlet shows to an exclusive model.
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She is an expert on obsolescence, a gimlet-eyed judge of what might have legs.
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The Ringer adds to Spotify's other recent podcast-centric acquisitions, including Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor.
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Deals • Spotify is said to be in talks to buy the podcasting company Gimlet Media.
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"Homecoming," an Amazon series starring Julia Roberts, is based on a fictional podcast from Gimlet.
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Podcast network Gimlet Media has raised another $5 million — this time from ad giant WPP.
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Gimlet cofounder and CEO Alex Blumberg believes the hesitancy is a symptom of an ongoing disconnect.
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Gimlet Media's Sandra will make you rethink digital smart assistants, and your warped relationship to them.
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It's acquired not only content studios — Parcast and Gimlet Media — but also a creation app — Anchor.
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Terms were not announced, but the Gimlet acquisition was reported to be worth some $230 million.
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Where he is congenitally optimistic, she casts a more gimlet eye on capitalism's notion of progress.
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In the short term, Spotify will allow both Gimlet and Anchor to operate as they have.
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Often cited as the network's moderate voice, he brings a gimlet-eyed disposition to his work.
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Serious beer taxonomists may cast a gimlet eye at our embrace of this variety of styles.
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"We look forward to a productive working relationship with the WGAE," a Gimlet representative told Gizmodo.
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"Homecoming," the Amazon series starring Julia Roberts, is based on a fictional podcast from Gimlet Media.
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If you're listening to "Homecoming," the cult hit podcast from Gimlet Media, the answer is nothing.
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Gimlet has recognized the union, but the two sides have yet to agree on a contract.
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And went over, then, to the next project, which was Gimlet, or I'm sorry, Vice Media.
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This is the part of the podcast where you guys tell the listeners what Gimlet Media is.
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In 2019, Spotify partnered with the Obamas' production company and acquired podcasts companies Gimlet, Anchor, and Parcast.
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Spotify announced Wednesday that it acquired podcast production company Gimlet Media and short-form podcasting app Anchor.
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The day I returned, [Gimlet co-founder and producer] Alex Blumberg told me the show was unsustainable.
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The purchase of Gimlet was reported to have made up nearly half that figure, at $28.53 million.
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The tip of the spear has been major investments, including acquisitions of companies like Gimlet and Anchor.
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And the other one I would recommend is "Crime Town," which is one of the Gimlet shows.
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Gimlet also recently recruited a new chief marketing officer, Jenny Wall, who's worked at Hulu and Netflix.
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He is a genius at taking himself down but is loath to cast that gimlet eye elsewhere.
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When it purchased Gimlet Media last year, it kept that podcast company's stuff available on all platforms.
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Spotify acquired podcasting companies like Gimlet Media and inked deals with programmers like Barack and Michelle Obama.
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" Ms. Turovskaya viewed with a gimlet eye the success of the 1960s James Bond films, including "Dr.
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The network will also expand Gimlet Creative, which partners with brands to develop native advertising and sponsored podcasts.
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On Wednesday, Spotify said it would buy Gimlet — and the podcasting app Anchor, with hopes of buying more.
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Gimlet last raised money in 2017, via a funding round that valued the company at about $70 million.
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Streaming music service Spotify is in "advanced" talks to acquire start-up podcast network Gimlet Media, reports Recode.
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Gimlet podcast fans are rejoicing today with the arrival of the new Amazon Prime Video original series, Homecoming.
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This American Life, what you do, you mentioned your producer went off to Reply All over at Gimlet.
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Online lender SoFi, a CNBC Disruptor, approaches the task of ranking business schools like a gimlet-eyed banker.
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For example, podcast company Gimlet Media Group announced that a majority of employees signed union cards in March.
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Another Gimlet series, Homecoming—its first fictional podcast—will soon be an Amazon Original Series starring Julia Roberts.
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So how does Gilberti feel as the guy at Gimlet in charge of selling their shows to Hollywood?
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Spotify recently acquired Gimlet and Parcast, two popular podcast creators, as it pushes into the world of podcasting.
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Spotify doubled down on podcasts last week with a double deal to buy podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor.
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Gimlet raised $28.5 million from investors that included Stripes Group, WPP, Betaworks and Lowercase Capital, according to Crunchbase.
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The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Spotify is reportedly paying about $230 million for Gimlet.
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Amazon has high hopes for "Homecoming," a coming drama starring Julia Roberts and based on another Gimlet podcast.
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"So I think it is a meaningful part of the business, but it's also about building the Gimlet brand."
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The news follows Spotify's recent acquisitions of Gimlet Media, another reputable podcast network, and Anchor, a podcast creation app.
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Parcast hasn't clarified whether it'll maintain its team or offices, but Gimlet is keeping its Brooklyn, New York headquarters.
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Amazon has ordered two seasons of Homecoming, an adaptation of the popular Gimlet podcast, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Gimlet has always played up its pally, happy family vibe - cross-hosting shows and giggling about office high jinx.
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Gimlet leadership is reviewing the union's request, and we expect their conversations will continue over the next few weeks.
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Like Chris Giliberti, who left his career as a management consultant behind to work for podcast network Gimlet Media.
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Its fretting system stares at us, gimlet-eyed, while the plucking system continues its dark work on the strings.
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The music streaming service confirmed that it has snapped up two podcast networks — Gimlet and Anchor — in undisclosed deals.
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Similarly, most of the major podcasting networks and companies (like Gimlet, Crooked Media and Earwolf) were founded by men.
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When Mr. Davis came knocking for "StartUp" in 2015, Gimlet ceded creative control of the adaptation to the network.
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Spotify bought Parcast in March as part of its growing portfolio of podcast companies, which includes Gimlet and Anchor.
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Last year, Spotify paid $340 million to buy Gimlet Media and Anchor to expand from streaming music to content.
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In June, New Balance began collaborating with the podcasting company Gimlet on a show about clothing and sneaker culture.
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The company started acquiring podcast networks like Parcast and Gimlet Media as well as the podcast creation app Anchor.
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In June, New Balance began collaborating with the podcasting company Gimlet on a show about clothing and sneaker culture.
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AB: I think the people who come to work at Gimlet feel really psyched to come to work at Gimlet, because I think of the work that we're doing, I feel like, as long as ... What Matt was saying about audio, it really is ... It's something that we really believe in deeply.
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"We are still at the dawn of the second golden age of audio, and we know Spotify is a perfect partner and platform to take Gimlet — and podcasting at large — to a new level," Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, the public radio veterans who founded Gimlet in 25.33, said in a statement.
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We have Gimlet Creative, which is ... services brands who are trying to figure out how they should sound in audio.
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So Gimlet creates sponsored shows and then creates all the ads, the native ads, that you hear in our shows.
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Also, in the wake of last week's Spotify acquisition of Anchor and Gimlet, podcasts are, once again, the hot newness.
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Gimlet Media is a start-up podcast network, and Anchor provides creators with tools to build, publish, and monetize podcasts.
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Other Emerson Collective investments include Axios Media and Gimlet Media as well as grants for specific stores in other outlets.
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Observing that "coal country" has been "a hugely depressed area," Akins turned a gimlet eye toward both candidate's proposed plans.
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Spotify (SPOT) is in talks to buy podcasting specialist Gimlet Media, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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The music streaming service today confirmed that it has snapped up two podcast networks — Gimlet and Anchor — in undisclosed deals.
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Betaworks partner Matt Hartman has led investments in over 30 companies, including Remote Year, Gimlet Media, Product Hunt, and Anchor.
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In fact, podcasting network Gimlet has been very open about the business model of licensing IP to movies and networks.
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But the way we end up serving our house gimlet to you required quite a bit of thought and consideration.
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Eli Horowitz, who wrote the Gimlet show with the screenwriter Micah Bloomberg, is acting as showrunner of the Amazon series.
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Spotify said this year that it had paid about $400 million for the podcast companies Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
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The Jørn Utzon, a tiki-twist on a gimlet, brings together an aquavit from Portland, apple brandy, and dehydrated beet.
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Over the last 290 months, half a dozen new podcast networks launched with high-quality shows—including Gimlet, Panoply and Radiotopia.
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Gimlet is now owned by a public tech company, though, and union drives within the tech industry are much less common.
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That terrific podcast was about Alex Blumberg's real-life attempts to start an ambitious podcasting company, which eventually became Gimlet Media.
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Obviously, have a listen to S-Town, Missing Richard Simmons, and this sort of latest Gimlet documentary called Mogul. S-Town?
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Audible was at the top of the e-book market, just like Gimlet is at the top of the podcasting market.
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After finishing his doctorate at MIT, Anderson founded a startup called Gimlet Systems with another self-driving car pioneer, Karl Iagnemma.
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The company's recent investment in podcasting — it acquired Anchor and Gimlet in February — positions it for a future beyond streaming music.
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Several union documents reference company Gimlet founders Matt Lieber and Alex Blumberg claiming they were "constitutionally unopposed" to a union drive.
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Podcasting took center stage this week, with music giant Spotify snapping up podcasting tool startup Anchor and podcast production company Gimlet.
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In December Gimlet Media, a podcast network started by Alex Blumberg, a radio journalist, raised $6m at a valuation of $30m.
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The show, created by Gimlet Media, is hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, formerly of "This American Life" and "WireTap" on CBC Radio.
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Listen to The Clearing, produced by Pineapple Street and Gimlet Media on Spotify, Apple podcasts, or wherever you find your podcasts.
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Instead, it's produced ancillary, exclusive content like Gimlet Academy and extra Reply All episodes while keeping the existing shows widely available.
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Spotify says the show was initially only available to Gimlet employees, although it's unclear if it existed in exactly this form.
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"We created an I.P. factory," Mr. Lieber, the president of Gimlet, said in a recent interview with The New York Times.
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She also works at Gimlet Media and previously was a producer at Vice News Tonight, and on the hit podcast Serial.
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Gimlet is responsible for producing and publishing some of the most popular podcasts on the internet like Reply All, StartUp, and Crimetown.
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"It's essentially a prototype of a produced franchise," says Chris Giliberti, the head of multi-platform efforts at podcast company Gimlet Media.
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All the airline deals you've seen reported on Facebook probably showed up in the forums first, thanks to its gimlet-eyed users.
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I have a few in rotation, and this week I'm working my way through the first season of Startup from Gimlet Media.
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In 2016 Gimlet Media's "Startup" investigated claims against Dov Charney, the American Apparel boss who was accused of sexual harassment and assault.
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But new episodes never materialized, and Gimlet Media, the startup podcast network that produced Mystery Show, has since parted ways with Kine.
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But the news that Gimlet considers Mystery Show "unsustainable" has changed that impression for many loyal fans of Kine and the show.
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And while Gimlet now has its share of detractors, plenty of people recognized that the media company was in a tough position.
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Plus, candid stories of how Americans spend their days as recorded by Studs Terkel, and insider gossip for any Gimlet podcast fan.
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One example is Gimlet Media, a podcasting startup founded in 2014 by former This American Life and Planet Money staffer Alex Blumberg.
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The series was podcast network Gimlet Media's first scripted drama, an all-out effort to demonstrate the medium's potential for upscale storytelling.
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Gimlet, the podcasting company that Cross Culture backed at a $2250 million post-money valuation, sold to Spotify for approximately $2000 million.
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Kafka previously reported that Spotify paid around $200 million for Gimlet, which, if correct, would mean Anchor fetched the remaining $140 million.
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In piloting the series, Gimlet found that its scripts were initially too long to expect listeners to sustain that level of attention.
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And one with Alex Blumberg of the Gimlet podcast network and Jacob Weisberg of the Slate Group has collected roughly 197,000 views.
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"Motherhood Sessions," which is produced by the podcasting company Gimlet Media, is in many ways a show about the drama of matrescence.
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Saturday • Live recordings and discussions with podcasters of Gimlet Media, part of the two-day GimletFest, at BRIC arts in Downtown Brooklyn.
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SINCE THE CANCELED Guggenheim survey, Mr. Haacke's gimlet eye has often strayed from the ills outside museums to the politics inside them.
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It acquired the podcasting companies Gimlet, Anchor, and Parcast and announced a partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company last year.
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Last year Spotify acquired Gimlet Media, Anchor FM and Cutler Media, companies that either create podcasts or help others to do so.
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"'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," wrote Emily Dickinson, of the creatures that caught her gimlet eye.
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"It's funny, I actually thought, how ironic that Spotify is getting into podcasting now [through the acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor]," Curley replied.
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Alex Blumberg, the co-founder of Gimlet Media, said Serial's success was instrumental in helping him raise venture capital for his podcasting startup.
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Members of the Gimlet organizing committee told BuzzFeed News that, in the past, management has been receptive to efforts to improve working conditions.
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Spotify is betting big on podcasts, spending up to $500 million this year alone, which has included acquiring major companies like Gimlet Media.
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"Over time we realized that, creatively and financially, that wasn't satisfying," says Chris Giliberti, head of the TV and Film division at Gimlet.
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Gimlet (Startup, Reply All) provides one interesting example, through IP licensing that has the dual effect of providing cashflow, while promoting one's product.
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Gimlet is an independently funded startup created in 2014 by a team of producers who, like Kine, previously worked on This American Life.
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As we continue to track this matter, we hope and expect that Gimlet Media and the union will work cooperatively on this issues.
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Last month, Spotify announced that it had paid $340 million for Gimlet and Anchor in a push to make its mark on podcasting.
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Addressing this gap in diverse show types is the thesis behind large new podcast production companies like Gimlet Media, Wondery and Endeavor Audio.
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After you listen, visit Reply All's publisher Gimlet Media, which is responsible for a number of the best examples of the podcasting form.
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That's because we're here to tell you about an eye-opening alternative to the unparalleled bastion of traditional cocktailery that is the gimlet.
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Another Gimlet show, "Crimetown," is in development at FX. And the podcasting company Panoply has signed with WME to develop its own adaptations.
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You had the Gimlet guys on here, and actually we had them in our last episode, or episode five ... A couple episodes ago.
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And if her art makes us laugh — as indeed it might, given the gimlet eye she turned to the world — well, that's fine.
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Some of the most notable podcast exits this year: February 2019: Gimlet, a podcast network, sold to Spotify for a reported $230 million.
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The staff at Gimlet Media, which Spotify acquired last February, announced its intention to unionize in March and won recognition the following month.
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Gimlet was bought last year by the streaming giant Spotify, and the final season follows what it's really like to sell a business.
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Between Spotify&aposs $230 million deal for Gimlet and seemingly every celebrity starting their own show, 2019 was the year of the pod.
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I love the podcast series Heavyweight, which started as a Gimlet Media show in 2016 and is now part of Spotify's podcast empire.
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Created by bartender Chris Herner and general manager Danie Jones, the gimlet is currently being offered at The Sheridan Room in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Unionized tech workers are a rarity, though, which means Gimlet employees who are joining Spotify will be in a unique position in the industry.
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This objectively hilarious tweet is the focus of this week's episode of Reply All, a podcast about internet culture from Spotify-owned Gimlet Media.
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This week, Spotify announced that it had acquired both Gimlet Media and Anchor in a play to further expand into audio beyond music streaming.
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And with Homecoming, Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg will adapt their their Gimlet Media podcast, with Mr. Robot's Sam Esmail executive-producing and directing.
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Gimlet Media, the parent company that published Homecoming, noticed this trend early, and formed an entirely new division in their company to address it.
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Yet today's Labour Party high-command contains several people who are more starry-eyed than gimlet-eyed when it comes to the Russian revolution.
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Still, the pickup is a big move for Gimlet, which has been viewed in recent years as the defining innovator in the podcast industry.
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Spotify made a major move into the podcast space on Wednesday, announcing the acquisition of two privately-held podcast companies, Gimlet Media and Anchor.
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We heard they basically just came through WNYC and just took everything that wasn't bolted to the wall and they now work at Gimlet.
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This is essentially a vodka gimlet, except the substitution of rosemary syrup adds a piney note that feels all too fitting for cold weather.
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Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $23M for more deals Spotify is going after podcasts in a major way in 2150.
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Hosted by Alex Blumberg and Lisa Chow, Gimlet Media's StartUp takes a thoughtful approach to what it means to start and run a business.
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Veteran New York City bartender Carlos Salazar playfully eschews tradition by removing the gin synonymous with a gimlet and replacing it with añejo tequila.
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Reporters had just understood the function of what he was saying, rather than taking a gimlet-eyed look at the words he wasn't using.
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Unlike Fox News, which was formed in the gimlet eye of the Republican operative Roger Ailes, MSNBC was not conceived with a political orientation.
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At the same time Spotify bought Gimlet last year, the company also acquired Anchor, an app to make recording and releasing a podcast easier.
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Gimlet, which was founded in 2014 by Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, two veterans of public radio, has also recently moved into television production.
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He trades his designer shades for boldly framed eyeglasses, turns his gimlet eye on various sculptures and paintings and drops depth-charged bons mots.
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The latest episode also features an interview with Gimlet Media co-founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, who just sold their company to Spotify.
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Yes, so some people thought think the jig might be up, that Gimlet sold because it couldn't get more money, couldn't make more money.
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Then the third part of the business is Gimlet Pictures, which takes the intellectual property from our shows and develops it for television and film.
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Recode's Peter Kafka reported Friday that the music streaming giant is currently courting Gimlet for a deal worth more than $200 million, citing unnamed sources.
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On the other side of the country in the borough of Brooklyn stands Gimlet Media, the $20 million king of the podcast market these days.
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Spotify recently acquired the podcasting companies Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast, and currently offers a quarter of a million podcasting titles on the streaming platform.
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The company has acquired Gimlet Media, a renowned podcasting studio; Anchor, a podcast creation app; and Parcast, a network known for crime and mystery shows.
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While Gimlet employees said their organizing campaign predated the acquisition announcement, they feel the union will help ensure Spotify considers employee input during the transition.
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Gimlet Media's podcast-creation staff announced plans to unionize today, a month after the company was acquired by Spotify in a reported $230 million deal.
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Spotify's Gimlet acquisition will certainly help lock more original content to the service, and could draw people over from rivals like Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.
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Within days of Luminary's launch, prominent podcasters and media companies (The New York Times, Gimlet and more) requested their shows be removed from the app.
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The podcasts line-up includes selections like "Brain's On" from American Public Radio, "Story Pirates" from Gimlet Media, and "Ear Snacks" from Andrew and Polly.
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Spotify made a major step in building up its original content on Wednesday, announcing plans to acquire privately held podcast producers Gimlet Media and Anchor.
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" The show is described on Gimlet&aposs site as "Candid conversations with people who have done hard things: what worked, what didn&apost, and why.
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Gimlet Media, BuzzFeed and a legion of garage productions have joined WNYC and other veteran audio producers to deliver earfuls from, and about, New York.
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Some say the drink's name can be traced back to a hand tool called a gimlet, which is used to make small holes in woodworking.
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There was also a contract with Weiden+Kennedy, the advertising firm: unlike rival startups like Gimlet Media, Pineapple has not taken any venture-capital investment.
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But another Gimlet podcast, the scripted thriller "Homecoming," has just been adapted into an Amazon series, starring Julia Roberts, and it is receiving strong reviews.
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When Gimlet recorded the first season of "StartUp," the drama of the show hinged on the financial and personal risk of establishing a podcasting company.
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Mindful of the trend, Gimlet hired Jenny Wall, a former Hulu and Netflix executive, as chief marketing officer, to help the company better navigate Hollywood.
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In February, the company paid about $340 million for two podcast companies, Gimlet Media and Anchor, and in March bought another, Parcast, for $56 million.
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Style is also essential: If you don't like the bitter, boozy gin Negroni, you might still love another gin cocktail, like an easy-drinking gimlet.
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HuffPost editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen announced to staffers on Friday that she will be departing the Verizon-owned publication to join podcast company Gimlet.
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"Gimlet has built the greatest audio team in the world, and I'm so lucky to have the chance to learn from them," Ms. Polgreen wrote.
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"Gimlet has built the greatest audio team in the world, and I'm so lucky to have the chance to learn from them," Ms. Polgreen wrote.
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The first four episodes of the season have their wild plot lurches but also the gimlet eye for human nature of "Homeland" at its best.
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Bar Centrale doesn't have a full cocktail menu, but they do offer several classic cocktails, including a martini, old fashioned, Sidecar, Negroni, gimlet, and cosmopolitan.
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Spotify purchased podcasting companies Gimlet Media and Anchor for over $340 million in February and bought another podcasting company, Parcast, for $56 million in March.
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It was reported back in 2017 that the company was talking with podcast producers, like Gimlet, in order to bring original podcast content to its platform.
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Two, they would have to understand what's special about Gimlet, which is that we are really invested in high-quality, excellent content that strives for more.
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In response, Holt compared Gimlet to Pixar and Marvel, saying that even after they were purchased by Disney, they continued operating as discrete and successful studios.
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Recently, Gimlet has extended its attention from podcasting to film and television, as seen by its recent deal with Amazon to turn Homecoming into a series.
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When Spotify announced the acquisition of Gimlet in February (terms were undisclosed but the $200 million price tag was widely reported), it made plenty of sense.
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Earlier this year, Spotify acquired podcast companies Gimlet Media and Anchor, and said it would spend $400 million to $500 million in podcast acquisitions in 2019.
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Earlier this summer, we saw investments in podcast studio Gimlet Media ($15 million); podcast network Dgital Media ($9.7 million-plus) and podcast distributor Art19 ($7.5 million).
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This time, Ollie says he ended up spending three years in jail after Arlie poisoned his gimlet, and set him up for that "Sister Wendy" job.
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Earlier this year the company acquired the podcasting network Gimlet Media as well as Anchor, which produces tools to let creators build, publish, and monetize podcasts.
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After acquiring Gimlet Media and Anchor earlier this year, Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek says the company is looking to expand the reach of its original content.
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Podcasting has become an important vertical for Anchor's parent company Spotify, which led to it acquiring both Anchor and Gimlet earlier this year for $340 million.
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With Spotify's purchase of the network in February, this makes Gimlet Union one of the first organized workforces under the umbrella of a major tech firm.
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More specifically, the Gimlet founders are seeing a business therapist — executive coach Jerry Colonna, who they first met when he appeared on Gimlet's first podcast, StartUp.
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She sometimes shifts between plain-spoken, even folksy slang and her old kewpie doll voice, code-switching between savvy and silly, gimlet-eyed and wide-eyed.
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Last week, the New York Times' Pete Wells turned his gimlet eye on our harvest holiday and in doing so woke up a normally quiet population.
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For example, when Gimlet released its first fiction podcast, "Homecoming," in 2016, every voice was familiar: Catherine Keener, David Schwimmer, Oscar Isaac, David Cross, Amy Sedaris.
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Almost exactly a year ago, the company bought Gimlet Media, a podcast network with shows like Reply All and Startup, and Anchor, a podcast creation app.
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Gimlet Media, which Spotify acquired in 2019, specialized in making sponsored shows and also helped create an Amazon Prime video series based on its podcast Homecoming.
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For all the talk of campaign organization, for all the gimlet-eyed analysis of fundraising totals, nothing in politics matches a late-breaking burst of enthusiasm.
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It's easy to imagine Spotify/Anchor, Gimlet Media or other major podcast players developing their own interactive features and classes if Knowable doesn't get there first.
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Spotify recently acquired the podcast creators Gimlet Media and Parcast, and its deal with Vice News rounds out its original-nonfiction-podcast slate, the company said.
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He's even raising the specter of Trump casually getting involved in nuclear war, which is something even Trump's most gimlet-eyed critics consider an unlikely possibility.
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Podcast M&A Spotify is making good on its promise to spend millions on podcast M&A, following its purchases of Gimlet and Anchor for $340 million.
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On Friday, Recode broke the news that Spotify was in talks to buy the popular New York-based podcast studio Gimlet Media for more than $200 million.
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So you guys started Gimlet Media with this podcast series StartUp, where you, Alex, were talking about founding it, and it's astoundingly candid and interesting and compelling.
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Bloomberg's background was in sound mixing, and Horowitz was a McSweeney's veteran and a novelist, who had been hired to run the narrative department of Gimlet Media.
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The music streaming giant has acquired Gimlet Media and Anchor to boost its podcast credentials, as the company looks to grow its share of the podcast market.
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Spotify is spending up to $500 million on podcast startups including Gimlet, Anchor Anchor is a slick app for podcast creation that is rich with social features.
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Cutting against the magazine's exuberance—but also propelled along by it—is a heretical strain of gimlet-eyed, anxious ambivalence about who will pay for the future.
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When Diana Trilling started reviewing books for The Nation , at the age of thirty-six, she brought a gimlet-eyed assurance that has not always aged well.
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John Borthwick is co-founder and CEO of betaworks, the startup studio that has fostered companies like Digg, Dots, Giphy, Chartbeat, TweetDeck, Gimlet Media, Bitly and Quibb.
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The Edwardian era never looked quite as beguilingly sinister as it did through the gimlet eyes of Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki.
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Workers at Gimlet Media, a podcasting company based in Brooklyn, announced that they were forming a union about a month after Spotify bought the company last year.
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To the title role, Taylor-Joy brings a spirited, slightly otherworldly charisma: part wide-eyed, 19th-century Valley Girl, and part gimlet-eyed Cupid on a mission.
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Earlier this week, podcast startup Gimlet raised $15 million — which gave us the opportunity to note that investors have not been clamoring to put money into podcasting.
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There are three parts to the business: We have Gimlet Originals, which is the shows that I mentioned, shows that we create, own and operate, invest heavily in.
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Gimlet Media, the Brooklyn-based podcasting network behind shows like StartUp and Reply All, announced today that it has closed a $15 million round led by Stripes Group.
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Sources say Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire Gimlet, the Brooklyn-based company which produces a network of popular shows and makes shows for advertisers like Gatorade.
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Gimlet raised from a slew of investors, including WPP, Betaworks, Stripes Group, Lowercase Capital, LionTree Parters, Emerson Collective, Cross Culture Ventures and music manager turned investor Troy Carter.
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This is Spotify's latest move into the podcasting space in the past year, following nearly $400 million in recent acquisitions of podcast networks Gimlet Media, Parcast, and Anchor.
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Powell Jobs, through her firm Emerson Collective, has made investments in several new media companies, like Axios, OZY Media and Gimlet Media, and has given grants to others.
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The service isn't disclosing specific numbers here, but says those estimates come through Magellan, a podcasting analytic service that works with some big names like WNYC and Gimlet.
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Trouble stalks the stage, however, in the form of the show's temperamental headliner, Mona Kent (Lesli Margherita), whose gimlet eye bores into Ruby's sailor when she learns — gosh!
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The vodka-based twist on the classic gin gimlet is made with Ciroc vodka, fresh lime juice, simple syrup and mint leaves for garnish (see full recipe below).
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CEO Daniel Ek said it planned to spend $400 million to $500 million on original podcasts this year, including purchases of Gimlet Media and Anchor, two podcast startups.
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However, these factors combined make Mystery Show unsustainable to produce and publish on a consistent basis, and therefore Gimlet will no longer produce new episodes of Mystery Show.
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After Kine confirmed the cancellation, Gimlet co-founder Blumberg recorded a short audio note regarding the decision, but its cryptic nature didn't exactly clarify the company's thought process.
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People have also gotten a glimpse of what it's like to live inside the HI-SEAS dome this year, thanks to the podcast The Habitat from Gimlet Media.
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This does not directly affect Spotify but we'd like to take this opportunity to say that we respect Gimlet employees' right to decide whether to seek union representation.
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I did, and I felt like a proud mom this week reading stories of the major, first-of-its-kind Spotify acquisition of his podcast production company, Gimlet.
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As Gimlet pursued Ms. Roberts for "Homecoming," it was able to send her the podcast with Ms. Keener in the role to help prove the company's bona fides.
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By the 1950s, the Old Fashioned, the Manhattan and the gimlet could be found at P.J. Clarke's, Sardi's and the 21 Club, which survived Prohibition as a speakeasy.
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"One has to suppose that he's looking for ways to shock people," Russell Baker, the gimlet-eyed longtime observer of Washington, said in a rare interview on Thursday.
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Spotify set the stage for the boom in 2019, spending $400 million to buy Gimlet, Parcast, and Anchor, and podcasting was one of the big trends at CES.
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Major publishers like Gimlet Media and Parcast were never on the platform to begin with, and PodcastOne and iHeartRadio removed their networks of podcasts from distribution on Luminary.
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You came up through public radio, then went to startup world at Gimlet Media, and now you're part of one of the world's largest audio companies at Spotify.
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For all her proud and quasi-masculine philandering, she's always been for girls: more gamine than erotic, she's a lodestone for a certain kind of gimlet female gaze.
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So let's change that: Gimlet Media, the podcast studio/network behind shows like StartUp and Reply All, has raised $15 million in a round led by Stripes Group.
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Days earlier, Himalaya nabbed $100 million to scale its podcast distribution tool and a pair of podcast startups, Gimlet and Anchor, sold to Spotify in a nine-figure deal.
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On the latest episode of Recode Media With Peter Kafka, Gimlet co-founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber spoke to Kafka just hours after the sale was officially announced.
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Gimlet has also been moving into TV production, including a deal that turned Homecoming, which started out as a scripted podcast, into an Amazon TV show starring Julia Roberts.
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Spotify said it has spent 308 million euros buying podcast companies Gimlet Media and Anchor FM and another 50 million buying Cutler Media LLC, the parent company of Parcast.
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The purchase, which Spotify confirmed last week, is the streaming platform's latest move to grow its presence in podcasting, and follows recent purchases of Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast.
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Shows from Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast — all Spotify entities — weren't on the platform from the start, which means listeners can't access major programs like Reply All and Homecoming.
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Their first experiment in the podcast-to-TV field was Alex, Inc, a show on ABC starring Zach Braff, based on the life of Gimlet co-founder Alex Blumberg.
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Spotify acquired a ton of podcast real estate with its purchases of Gimlet, Parcast, and Anchor, and it has big plans to continue expanding its offerings in that arena.
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In December 2015 she appeared on an episode of Gimlet's StartUp, a podcast that explores issues about starting and running a business, using Gimlet itself as a case study.
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Matt Hartman, partner at Betaworks — an early investor in both Gimlet and Anchor — says the massive acquisitions could help signal the beginning of a new wave of podcasting growth.
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Inside there are the typical tech office touches like standing desks, Nerf guns, a commitment to dog-friendliness and conference rooms named after booze (margarita, gimlet, old fashioned, mojito).
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" The company said Gimlet would focus on creating new podcasts exclusively for Spotify subscribers, and that Anchor's tools would "enabl[e] creation for the next generation of podcasters worldwide.
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Journalist Lynn Levy finds out in The Habitat, Gimlet Media's podcast series that tracks six volunteers who spend a year in an imitation Mars habitat on a mountain in Hawaii.
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"Even before we even started organizing more broadly across the company, contractors had been organizing for a while around our own issues," said Soraya Shockley, a contract worker at Gimlet.
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" The podcast to listen to during a flight…let's say to Mars, sort of:The Habitat by Gimlet Media gives "an addictive serialized documentary: the true story of a fake planet.
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When they created Homecoming, the podcast from Gimlet Media, their only intent was to make a great fictional podcast, to tell an inventive story in the burgeoning audio fiction medium.
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The company has been ramping up on podcasts across the board, with acquisitions in the market like Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor as well as investments in original programming and exclusives.
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There has been a recent shift in the digital news industry with several media outlets unionizing, which is possibly influencing this group of Gimlet employees to consider representation as well.
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Late yesterday, Starlee Kine, host of the much-beloved podcast Mystery Show, announced via Facebook that Gimlet Media let her go and ended her podcast after one six-episode season.
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One of the best examples of the evolution of the pitch is in the podcast "StartUp" by Alex Blumberg, where he chronicles how he created a company called Gimlet Media.
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Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $500M for more deals After a lengthy beta period, Spotify only opened its podcast submission program to all-comers last October.
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And premium content, the kind Spotify was after in its Gimlet purchase, takes time and money, both things that are harder and harder to come by in this digital age.
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Marina Lee is the head of consumer products for Pinkfong USA, a SmartStudy subsidiary, and through the rollout of "Baby Shark Live!" has acted as a gimlet-eyed brand monitor.
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"StartUp" by Gimlet Media "StartUp," which is described on the podcast&aposs website as "A show about what it&aposs really like to start a business," is no longer active.
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"Homecoming" is the first scripted podcast from Gimlet Media, home to series like "Reply All" and "StartUp," and is billed as a "psychological thriller" and cast with A-list actors.
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In addition to testing out payments, apps like Gimlet Media's Chompers – a two-minute podcast to get kids to brush their teeth – has a natural home on Alexa for Kids.
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When Gimlet produced "Homecoming," it could land in-demand actors like Oscar Isaac and Catherine Keener because it required only a couple days of work in front of a mic.
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LONDON — A century after they won the right to vote, British women celebrated their gains on Tuesday but took a gimlet-eyed view of their status in modern-day Britain.
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This is the fourth podcast company acquisition Spotify has made in the last 4503 months; last year it spent about $400 million to buy Gimlet Media, Anchor FM, and Parcast.
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Many Californians are also casting a gimlet eye at the two big industries whose leaders talk a liberal game but sell products that arguably undermine civil society: entertainment and technology.
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In her intelligence, in her gimlet-eyed recognition of both the limits and the possibilities of government, she's a particular kind of inspirational figure, a pragmatist and a Democratic moderate.
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In the past few months, it has snapped up Gimlet and Anchor in its podcast push, acquired true crime studio Parcast, and allocated $500 million for more deals in this space.
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The music streaming service, which has ramped up its podcast offerings with the acquisition of Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast, said its podcast audience is up 50% since the last quarter.
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One way Sacks, a reproductive psychiatrist, does this is through her new Gimlet Media podcast series, Motherhood Sessions, where she interviews real mothers about the "psychological big bang" that accompanies motherhood.
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The 83-person staff of Gimlet Media, a podcasting startup acquired by music streaming service Spotify for $230 million in February, is unionizing with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE).
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A spokesperson for Gimlet told BuzzFeed News that it had "received a formal notice from the WGAE union and plan to review," but had "nothing further to report at this time."
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At a party after the announcement in Spotify's Manhattan office, one Gimlet employee, Devon Taylor, pulled out her phone to capture audio of the celebration, because — well — it's a podcasting company.
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Its market share is growing substantially, it surpassed Apple's podcast app in popularity in several countries, and just announced a major commitment to the format that included acquiring Anchor and Gimlet.
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Patreon, the membership platform that helps online creators make a living, announced Wednesday that it has acquired Memberful, another membership service that caters to larger creators including Gimlet Media and Stratechery.
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Blumberg's original pitch to super-investor Chris Sacca was horrible, and if Sacca had not taken pity on Blumberg and given him pointers, Gimlet might never have gotten off the ground.
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To this end, Gimlet stacked the cast with splashy Hollywood talent: Catherine Keener played Heidi, David Schwimmer played Colin, and Oscar Isaac played Walter Cruz, a veteran undergoing treatment at Homecoming.
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MacIsaac said that they often talk to "Gimlet, PodcastOne" and others and that they're "going to be announcing ways in which we collaborate with them" at some point in the future.
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Camp, in this sense, is not a pup tent, but a circus tent: not an activity, but a way to see, a gimlet-eyed but eyebrow-cocked gloss on the world.
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Laszuk said the firm has been interested in this area for a long time — it was an early investor in podcasting startups Gimlet and Anchor, which Spotify acquired earlier this year.
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It has merged traditional ad agencies such as JWT and Wunderman, which became Wunderman Thompson last year, and sold stakes in companies such as podcast company Gimlet and online magazine Refinery29.
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In "The Clearing", a podcast from Gimlet and Pineapple Street, Balascio teamed with veteran journalist Josh Dean to tell her story and unravel the truth about her father's life and crimes.
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Merrill, 28, is an account executive in Brooklyn for Gimlet Media, a company that produces narrative podcasts, where she is responsible for podcast ad sales in New York and the Southeast.
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This is an extension of the $15 million round Gimlet raised last month, which valued the company at $55 million pre-money; it brings the company's total funding to $27 million.
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Along wth the Braffening, Gimlet has also optioned Homecoming — the network's first fictional show is being adapted into a series for Amazon starring Julia Roberts, helmed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail.
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That's from a new study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which takes self-reported revenues from podcast companies like Gimlet and Midroll Media and then extrapolates to get a full-market estimate.
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Lieber said they did consider that, given the success of its hit shows like StartUp and Reply All, Gimlet might be able to "navigate the stormy seas of media" and remain independent.
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If you look at these two entities, the enormous entity of Spotify and then us, sort of like our independent, growing but still relatively small, certainly to Spotify, empire of Gimlet Media.
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"Podcasting is one of the most exciting new media platforms for storytelling and Gimlet is at the forefront of creating compelling content," WGAE executive director Lowell Peterson said in a press release.
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As Spotify doubles down on podcasts with its recent acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor, Pandora is experimenting with a new format that gives artists control over how their music can be understood.
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Gimlet Media, which was founded by Alex Blumberg (a former producer for This American Life) and Matthew Lieber in 2014, has been one of the dominant figures in the growing podcasting market.
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At launch, and still, the app is missing some of podcasting's biggest shows, including The New York Times' The Daily, Joe Rogan's show, and Gimlet Media shows like Reply All, among others.
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As with Gimlet, the podcast company behind shows like Reply All and StartUp, which Spotify acquired for $230 million last year, The Ringer's podcasts won't be Spotify-exclusive, though some might be.
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The New York Times was already withholding its blockbuster hit The Daily, and Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast — which are all Spotify-owned companies — also didn't make their shows available at launch.
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Ernie was a teeny, tiny blue and orange alien who died by accidental electrocution when Owen spilled his gimlet on the wires of a microphone right as Ernie was reaching for it.
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Spotify, meanwhile, has been getting more serious about podcasting with the acquisition of startups Gimlet and Anchor, as well as by hiring longtime media executive Dawn Ostroff as its chief content officer.
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Spotify's recent acquisition of privately held Gimlet Media and Anchor is the latest example of this investment plan, as Spotify plans to spend up to $500 million in 2019 on podcast production.
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And by the time the enormous success of The Group rolled around, Kael had long been working as a McCarthy-like, gimlet-eyed movie critic, but without the mainstream success or recognition.
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Memberful gives creators like Stratechery's Ben Thompson (who has an interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte about the acquisition) and podcast producer Gimlet Media full control over branding, with no Patreon chrome.
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The writer, a gimlet-eyed blonde named Frances Welty, has fallen for the same pitch that lured the other eight: How about an "exclusive 10-Day Mind and Body Total Transformation Retreat"?
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And when Mindy's bitter, hard-boiled mother (Rosanna Arquette) arrives, her gimlet eye zeros in on her daughter's ambivalence and she bluntly asks her why she is going through with the wedding.
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The unionization vote also comes on the heels of organizing campaigns at two other tech companies—a successful one at podcasting mainstay Gimlet, and a contentious, ongoing one at fundraising platform Kickstarter.
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But in the US, major podcast studios like Gimlet, Stitcher, and Wondery are quickly catching up, posing competition that&aposs reminiscent of the threat that traditional print media faced from digital natives.
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It may also explain why industry sources told me that Gimlet wanted a $75 million valuation when it first went looking for funding this year, but couldn't find takers at that price.
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The move would be the first time Spotify has bought a content company; Brooklyn-based Gimlet produces a network of popular shows, including Reply All, and makes shows for advertisers like Gatorade.
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And we're reaching with our ads and our ads are very effective because they're native, they're midstream and we put a lot of work and care at Gimlet Creative to making them good.
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The new guidelines will kick off an interesting period of growth for Spotify, as the service commits to building out a podcast network with recent acquisitions of podcast companies Gimlet Media and Anchor.
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The deal follows three podcast acquisitions Spotify made last year: Gimlet Media and Anchor, which it acquired for a total of about $340 million, and Parcast, which it acquired for about $55 million.
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The only seemingly trouble-free relationship is the one that doesn't involve any women: Elijah (Andrew Rannells) finds himself dating a television newsman played by Corey Stoll with his customary gimlet-eyed magnetism.
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Spotify also announced the acquisition of two podcast startups this week, Gimlet Media and Anchor, as it focuses on gathering into its service all of the audio content its users might listen to.
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The announcement came in conjunction with its 2018 Q4 earnings release, and acquisition terms were not disclosed though Recode reported a price tag of more than $200 million for Gimlet Media last week.
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Spotify also announced this week that it was making significant headway on its podcasting ambitions by acquiring Anchor and Gimlet Media, the latter of which includes podcasts such as Reply All and Crimetown.
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But to the less gimlet-eyed, the Christodora represented an opportunity to escape the creaky floors and clanking radiators of the typical East Village walk-up without abandoning a neighborhood that inspired them.
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With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters and thwarted love — not to mention the discovery of a dead body — it feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Toibin.
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" (Gimlet, too, has a show for kids in the works.) Mr. Raz and Ms. Thomas have started their own company, Tinkercast, to expand their podcasting brand under the tagline: "Eyes Up. Screens Down.
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Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — Before I get to America's Mayor and America's Nightmare, I would like to say this: Michelle Wolf was right when she turned a gimlet eye on the media.
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All the cast members — including a gimlet-eyed Louis Cancelmi as Coriolanus's Volscian archrival and secret soul mate, Tullus Aufidius; and Nneka Okafor as his neglected wife, Virgilia — speak with engaging, heightened naturalism.
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That was most important to Gimlet co-founder and CEO Alex Blumberg, who told CNN Business that he was "the most skeptical and worried and anxious about it of anybody" during acquisition talks.
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All the cast members — including a gimlet-eyed Louis Cancelmi as Coriolanus's Volscian archrival and secret soul mate, Tullus Aufidius; and Nneka Okafor as his neglected wife, Virgilia — speak with engaging, heightened naturalism.
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Lieber says Gimlet will use some of the money to build out new programs, train new podcasters, expand the company's in-house advertising shop and work on exporting hit podcasts into other formats.
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Then on to Gimlet Pictures, it's growing because TV markets are very hot and the whole network television system is sort of being refactored and it created an opportunity for us to come in.
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Here's what you'll get: Led by Alex Blumberg, CEO and co-founder of Gimlet Media and co-producer of Planet Money, this course is designed to get you up to speed with storytelling essentials.
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Until now India has relied on aircraft armed with nuclear bombs, which might struggle to break through air defences, or land-based missiles, which are at risk of being spotted by gimlet-eyed satellites.
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The company has previously referred to its purchase of Gimlet as akin to Disney buying Pixar or Marvel — the studios retain their independence but live within, and richen, their corporate parent's intellectual property library.
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This is the second TV series for Gimlet Media, which sold a Zach Braff directed-pilot based on the comedy podcast Start Up to ABC last August and received a series pickup in May.
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The move comes less than a week after Gimlet Media—the podcasting company soon to be acquired by tech giant Spotify—announced its own plans to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East.
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The series, which are produced in partnership with other media partners like Slate spin-off Panoply Studios, Gimlet Media, and Loudspeaker Network, aim to help further differentiate Spotify's service from other streaming music rivals.
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ANTON KERN Anne Collier produces large, sumptuous photographs of photographic imagery found on old record album covers, post cards, posters and advertisements, with a gimlet eye for representations of female beauty and sex appeal.
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From her first volume, "Instead of a Letter" (21973), to her last, Ms. Athill was praised by critics for her luminous prose, gimlet social acuity and ability to convey a profound sense of place.
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Based on the Gimlet Media podcast of the same name, Homecoming is a psychological thriller that offers ample twists and turns while making a profound statement on the military complex's regard for human life.
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Venture capitalists have invested more than $270 million in the podcasting industry this year, according to Pitchbook; they also got their first major exit when Gimlet Media was sold to Spotify for $325 million.
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StartUp is a five-season documentary series about about what it's really like to start a business, beginning in 2014 as a chronicle of the life of a fledgling podcasting company called Gimlet Media.
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It's certainly true that podcasting, driven almost entirely by advertising, isn't generating enormous revenue right now: A recent study commissioned by podcast companies, including Gimlet, pegs the podcast industry's 2016 revenue at $119 million.
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Most everyone involved in the deals, including Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Gimlet Media's Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber have appeared on calls, at conferences, and, of course, on podcasts to discuss what's coming next.
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Spotify spent more than $300 million to acquire Gimlet Media, the maker of Reply All and other popular shows, and Anchor, the company behind an app that allows anyone to easily create their own podcasts.
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More than 80 producers, engineers, hosts, editors, and reporters — who are behind popular shows like Reply All — say that the acquisition demonstrates their effort in growing Gimlet from a startup into a million-dollar business.
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That marks the company's fourth podcasting-related acquisition in the last 12 months: Last February, Spotify purchased podcast studio Gimlet and podcast publishing platform Anchor, followed in March by its acquisition of podcast studio Parcast.
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Spotify is in talks to buy Gimlet Media — a Brooklyn-based podcasting company co-founded by former "This American Life" producer Alex Blumberg — for more than $200 million, Recode first reported and the WSJ confirmed.
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The result is that Rivera can cast himself both as a gimlet-eyed insider with a powerful readership and as a mostly anonymous entrepreneur running a niche link blog from the comfort of his home.
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Most folks think of a gimlet as a gin or vodka drink, but with all of that lime juice and simple syrup, it makes perfect sense to switch it up and try it with tequila.
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Spotify has for some time been talking up its plans to turn on personalization for podcasts, as it delves further into the market through acquisitions — like Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor — and investments in original content.
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The podcast was "StartUp," the journalist Alex Blumberg's excruciatingly transparent account of quitting his job at NPR and struggling to create his own podcast company, Gimlet, with very little money and even less business experience.
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"We are already in good faith negotiations at Gimlet, another Spotify owned entity, and look forward to continuing good faith negotiations at The Ringer," Jason Gordon, Writers Guild of America, East spokesperson, told CNN Business.
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WPP's press release notes that Gimlet has been able to work with both direct response clients like Blue Apron, which currently dominate podcast advertising, as well as traditional brand advertisers like Ford, Pepsi and Microsoft.
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But publishers immediately showed interest, and Wellington said SiriusXM, Gimlet, The Tim Ferriss Show, Reid Hoffman's Masters of Scale, the BBC, the Guardian, Comedy Central and dozens of NPR stations have all used the free tool.
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This year, Spotify plans to spend $500 million on acquisitions related to the podcast industry, and so far, it's bought podcast networks Gimlet Media and Parcast, as well as podcaster-oriented creation and hosting platform Anchor.
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Why it matters: Spotify's emphasis on global reach in India, bundling with Hulu and acquisitions of podcast companies Gimlet Media, Anchor, and Parcast put it far ahead of Apple Music, which recorded 50 million subscribers worldwide.
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So yeah, we've made mistakes, but I think the thing both of us are most proud of about Gimlet is the culture, and the fact that people come here to do their best work every day.
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Viacom plunked down $340 million for Pluto TV, signaling a big market for ad-supported streaming TV. Spotify paid $230 million for podcast company Gimlet Media, showing there's value in media that commands people's undivided attention.
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More important than exact story structure, though, is the show's, well, vibes: It can be nakedly and straightforwardly hilarious, but it tends more to the gimlet eye — though only toward the characters who can take it.
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If the gimlet eye of American Vandal reveals one truth about the next generation, it is that the crap they will have to put up with is far worse than anything you could catch from lemonade.
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While Spotify has paid for a handful of high-profile podcasting exclusives from the likes of Amy Schumer and Gimlet, it assumes most of the podcasts it distributes will be non-exclusive for now, he said.
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Mr. Horowitz is the head of the new, one-man fiction division (official title: executive producer of scripted content) at Gimlet Media, a Brooklyn podcasting company begun by the longtime NPR journalist Alex Blumberg in 303.
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Her photographs and short films, as gimlet-eyed and gutsy as they are visually compelling, have gone a long way toward resetting our expectations of pictures and challenging our assumptions about her largely African-American subjects.
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This tech could help bring podcasting up to speed with other digital advertising mediums and lead to increased ad spend in 2020 and beyond, said Gimlet cofounder and Spotify podcast and studio operations head Matt Lieber.
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Indeed, even before the Kennedy vacancy, high earners were staring at the Republican Party with a gimlet eye, having lost much of the deductibility of state and local taxes as a result of the tax bill.
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And I really ought to have stayed for a Tom Collins, a Window into Paradise, a gimlet, a rickey, and a Sun Sun Sun, before slapping myself back to life with a Corpse Reviver No. 2.
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Alex Blumberg: Yeah, I mean, well, Spotify said themselves this morning on the earning call that they have no intention of taking the shows that are out there that Gimlet produces and putting them behind a paywall.
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Seed investors in Gimlet made 15 times their money back while Series A investors generated a fivefold return, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the terms were private.
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Backstage founder Arlan Hamilton was quick to point out that she had been honest about the challenges of fundraising during various speaking engagements, and even on the Gimlet "Startup" podcast, which featured her in its latest season.
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Gimlet already hosted its second season of the popular true crime podcast "Crimetown" exclusively on Spotify beginning in October 2018 and paid actress Amy Schumer more than $1 million for rights to her podcast, according to Bloomberg.
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Money is pouring into funds with "value" in their names, including ETFs such as the Vanguard Value ETF (VTV) or the iShares Russell 2000 Value Index (IWN), a trend to which the authors turn a gimlet eye.
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Now that there is also a supplementary Spotify for Podcasters service, given that Spotify is now amping up its spoken content with the Gimlet and Anchor acquisitions, that may also start to see a bump in usage.
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In recent months, Spotify has invested in the podcast market through acquisitions like Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor — as well as in its programming, like the just-announced deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
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The spending on advertisements will generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the industry this year, said Matt Lieber, a co-founder of Gimlet Media, a podcasting start-up that has raised $7.5 million from venture capitalists.
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The movie's gimlet-eyed mise-en-scène is exceeded only by the flamboyance of John Heard's career performance as a raspy-voiced madman who lost an arm, a leg, an eye and possibly his mind in Vietnam.
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Consider it for a blushing martini or gimlet, or simply serve it on the rocks with a spritz of lime and just a splash of good tonic: Gin Lane 1751 "Victoria" Pink Gin, $27.99 from ginlane1751.com.
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As Gimlet Union moves into bargaining its first contract, they've released a set of agenda items they hope to formalize, including consistent job titles and pay, equitable contractor policies, and plans to diversify hiring, among other initiatives.
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This week, iHeartMedia committed to translating some of its biggest podcasts into Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, French, and German, and Spotify has said it plans to introduce German, Spanish, and Portuguese versions of the Gimlet Media show Sandra.
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Spotify, which spent about $400 million in 2019 acquiring three podcasting companies — Gimlet Media, Anchor FM, and Parcast — has had talks with Simmons dating back to at least October 20213, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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Or, you could make French toast amandine for breakfast, some strawberry-banana compote, and then putter around the house with your headphones on, listening to the "Homecoming" podcast, from Gimlet Media, until it's time to make dinner.
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Through Emerson Collective, she has funded news organizations like ProPublica, acquired media properties like Pop-Up Magazine and The Atlantic, of which she has a majority stake, and invested in Axios and the podcast giant Gimlet Media.
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" Because podcasting is so nascent, Greenfield said it's impossible to assess whether the purchase prices for Gimlet and Anchor were appropriate, "but in the next five years, if the category is strong, this [buy] will look smart.
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Podcasts have been of increased importance to Spotify, and the company has made several investments in this space over the year, including the acquisitions of Gimlet, Anchor and Parcast, and a number of exclusive deals with podcasters.
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And while it's not unusual for a business to receive this sort of criticism, the reality that Gimlet actually is a for-profit business, and that it must make strategic business decisions to survive, seemed to disconcert onlookers. .
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The first design was to convince the world of the fact that Korea's security had nothing to do with US security and that the US was not interested in Korea ... but a gimlet in a bag shows itself.
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It has disseminated numerous producers and hosts into podcasting, most notably Alex Blumberg, the C.E.O. of Gimlet Media, whose first show, "Startup," was an entertaining and enlightening meta-podcast about leaving public radio to become a podcast entrepreneur.
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Mr. Blumberg's real-life business partner, the Gimlet co-founder and president Matt Lieber — who holds an M.B.A. from M.I.T. and started his career at NPR and WNYC — is recast as a scrappy salesman played by Michael Imperioli.
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With its gimlet-eyed view of romance, Sahara-dry humor and love of whimsical instrumentation, "69 Love Songs" established Mr. Merritt as one of the most arch, and literate, songwriters of his generation — a Noël Coward for now.
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Amazon has bought the rights to "Homecoming", a star-studded psychological thriller from Gimlet Media (though already voiced by a starry cast—Catherine Keener, Oscar Isaac and David Schwimmer—the television series will swap Ms Keener for Julia Roberts).
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The statement essentially translated to, "We're sad, but we can't talk about it": Fans reacted to Blumberg's update by chastising Gimlet for its lack of transparency and for the length of time it took to make the news public.
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According to Gimlet employees Eric Eddings and Rachel Ward, both members of the union organizing committee, these objections are based on the belief that this sect of staffers—which includes hosts, editors, and some senior producers—occupy leadership roles.
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The deal for Parcast, whose 18 shows include "Serial Killers" and the fictional series "Mind's Eye," comes several weeks after Spotify agreed to buy two other podcast companies: Gimlet Media, a podcast studio, and Anchor, a podcast tool maker.
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In Spotify's case, it acquired technology startups designed to help people create and manage their podcasts, as well as a number of podcast networks — including The Ringer, Gimlet and Parcast — which put out some of the industry's top shows.
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In an effort to demystify the podcasting industry and encourage people to pursue their own, Spotify today released a new five-part series about how Gimlet Media, the maker of shows like Reply All and Heavyweight, creates its programs.
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Yet another vote of confidence in podcasting — this time from the people who buy ads for a living: WPP, the biggest ad holding company in the world, has put $5 million in Gimlet Media, the Brooklyn-based podcast startup.
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On this episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, the founders of podcasting network Gimlet, talk about creating audio and video that has a genuine connection to its audience — even if that means making branded content.
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Luckily, Amazon Studios has already confirmed a second season for the series, according to The New York Times, and even luckier, Gimlet Media has already set the stage for an extended story by confirming a second season of the popular podcast.
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When it rolls out to the public on iOS, Android, and the web, Luminary's podcast app will be missing some of the industry's biggest shows, including The New York Times' The Daily and Gimlet Media shows like Reply All and Homecoming.
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"I think there's things that Gimlet's going to do that maintains the independence of what they've always done, and my hope is that there will be many more chapters of Gimlet over the next X number of years," he said.
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Instead of planning a dumb joke, we've spent the last week reporting out stories on everything from Gimlet Media's attempts to stall a staff unionization effort and Silicon Valley's slow-but-steady pivot to militarism to experiments with mice and psychedelics.
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How do we get from this nebulous sour with mint, in any old glass, with our without ice and soda, to our tidy little coupe filled with what bar legend Toby Maloney describes to me as "an up gimlet with mint"?
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Whatever target she's skewering, Douglas's tone remains calm and sardonic; it's easy to picture her as the witty but gimlet-eyed friend who sits at your kitchen table, listening sympathetically to your complaints while making rapier jabs at their patriarchal roots.
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" Among other shows it has in the works, Gimlet has teamed with Blumhouse Television, an arm of the company that made the film "Get Out," to create a TV version of its limited-run horror podcast, "The Horror of Dolores Roach.
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In "Motherhacker," a podcast that Gimlet Media will release in November, Coon plays a single mother struggling with financial insecurity and "flying by the seat of her pants," as Coon put it, when she becomes the victim of a phishing hack.
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Vanity Fair has called upon some of the most gimlet-eyed to supply them over the course of its history: Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, James Wolcott, Patricia Bosworth and Michael Lewis for starters, all of whom are represented in this volume.
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The American photographer Louise Lawler may be the wittiest and most gimlet-eyed member of the Pictures Generation, revered for her matchless photographs of the secret life of art, as it cycles through gallery back rooms, collectors' homes, and museum installations.
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People familiar with the company say investors valued Gimlet at $55 million pre-money — that is, it's worth $103 million now — and that the 80-person company is on track to generate something in the range of $15 million this year.
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A Slate piece from earlier this month explained this phenomenon, citing the recent organizing efforts of media brands like Fast Company, Gimlet, and Vox Media, universities like Columbia, and the Google walkout as evidence of labor's new appeal for white collar workers.
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Earlier this week Gimlet Media's podcast The Nod did God's work when they released an oral history of the song by talking to group members, former managers, and Atlanta-area journalists to get to the bottom of what made the song so magical.
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We've reproduced it below (emphasis ours):As some of you may have heard through recent media articles, Gimlet Media was notified this week that the Writers Guild of America, East, a labor union, wishes to represent a group of its current editorial employees.
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With such a pedigree, Gimlet could have fallen foul to the introspective and risk-averse attitude Sanders is concerned about, but instead they pushed to do things differently, and in December 2015 launched a show called Sampler, which ran for one season.
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Podcasting, though an infantile industry that hit just $314 million in revenue in 2017, is maturing, raking in venture capital rounds large and small and recording its first notable M&A transaction with Spotify's acquisition of Gimlet and Anchor earlier this month.
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Thankfully, Marvel and Stitcher have enlisted what looks to be an equally capable production team for the project, including comic writer Ben Percy, director Brendan Baker and sound designer Chloe Prasinos, who worked on Reply All for Gimlet, prior to joining up.
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And while the podcast project launches with content from heavy hitters like Gimlet, American Public Media, The New York Times, and NPR, among others, it will still need to aggressively build out its stable in order to provide listeners with the truly unexpected.
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The launch of Spotlight is going to feature stuff from Gimlet Media, Crooked Media, Cheddar, BuzzFeed News and others, and will also include original series created by Spotify itself, like RISE, Secret Genius and its Spotify Singles session series with various artists.
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The group, which is technically an LLC not an official non-profit, has its hands in education and immigration advocacy efforts and has made sizable investments in media companies like Axios, Gimlet Media and The Atlantic, in which it owns a majority stake.
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This unusual approach has resonated with entrepreneurs in and outside of Silicon Valley, and while he cannot reveal his roster of clients, founders of companies like Etsy, SoundCloud, Twilio, and Gimlet have publicly praised Colonna's ability to free themselves from self-imposed barriers.
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So if your gimlet, cosmo, or other shaken cocktail served in a dainty coupe isn't as cold as if it were coming straight out of a freezer that's -5-degrees Celsius, the bartender's shake was either too weak, too short, or both.
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What a way to cap a season in which this ruthlessly entertaining and intelligent show, so gimlet-eyed about the corrupting influence of power and so deft at depicting its argot and appeal, finally brought in the buzz it has long deserved.
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Spotify bet big on podcasts this year when it acquired Gimlet Media, Parcast, and Anchor, and as it dedicates its team to create more exclusive shows, it also wants to make sure all of its users take advantage of that investment by listening.
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It also added podcaster metrics to Wrapped, launched a personalized podcast playlist, added support for adding podcasts to your own playlists and continually launches new and original series from Spotify Studios, as well as those from the studios it acquired, Gimlet and Parcast.
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Spotify is in advanced talks to buy the podcast studio Gimlet Media, according to two people briefed on the proposed deal, a move that could help the music streaming service improve its profit margins and reduce its dependence on the major record companies.
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"Love" is hardly the first revisionist rom-com to hit TV. Hulu's "The Mindy Project" embraces movie myths while dismantling them, FXX's "You're the Worst" explores the chemistry of self-destructiveness, Amazon's "Catastrophe" is a variation on the gimlet-eyed raunch of Mr. Apatow's movies.
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Spotify also alleges that Apple prevented it from launching an Apple Watch app, blocked the company from building for Apple's smart HomePod speaker, and locked the streaming service out of podcast APIs after it announced its recent acquisitions of podcasting startups Gimlet and Anchor.
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Spotify, which has been trying to branch out of the streaming music business, is getting ready to make its first big move into podcasting: It plans to pay more than $200 million to buy Gimlet Media, the startup behind popular shows like Reply All.
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Who are we kidding—this is a vodka gimlet that you can hand to your grandmother as soon as she gets to your house to keep her out of the kitchen and out of your hair to ward off any inquiries about who you're dating.
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Sandra was written by authors Kevin Moffett (Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events) and Matthew Derby (The Silent History), who told The Verge that they had worked on another project with Gimlet producer Eli Horowitz, and pitched several ideas to him before settling on Sandra.
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That means ordinary investors might turn a gimlet eye toward those who are saying that low volatility is a bad thing, at the same time they attempt to outsmart retail investors by making quick trades, or sell schemes that promise to keep one's money safe.
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At the time of the Gimlet acquisition the company said it expected to invest as much as $500 million in its podcasting business, with the company's CEO Daniel Ek predicting that 20 percent of all listening on the platform will eventually come from podcasts.
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All I know is it's a lot harder to keep producers working on my radio show than it was four years ago because ... Because a handful of startups have gone and basically hired everyone that works ... Because of Gimlet and Panoply and all those, yeah.
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"The Pitch" by Gimlet Media "The Pitch," hosted by Josh Muccio, "puts entrepreneurs in the room with real investors (who have to make a decision on the spot)," explained Craig Markovitz, assistant teaching professor of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University&aposs Tepper School of Business.
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Not only has Spotify acquired Gimlet Media, a podcast producer and network, for around $230 million — a deal Recode told you about last week — but it has also bought Anchor, a startup that makes it easier for people to record and distribute their own podcasts.
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People often don't realize that just because a menu cocktail only contains the "classic" drinks — cocktails with familiar names like a mojito, Manhattan or gimlet — it doesn't mean we didn't labor and anguish over how exactly it would be made and presented to you.
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My other go-tos are Planet Money (disclosure: my husband is a reporter there), The New York Times Book Review podcast (where I sometimes appear), Longform, the New Yorker Radio Hour and some of the shows from Gimlet Media, like StartUp and Reply All.
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"The Kiss" landed in 1997, an early example of the dark-cornered memoirs that would dominate publishing for the next two decades, paving the way for the gimlet-eyed investigations of Rachel Cusk and the wincing beauty of Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels.
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"Her photographs and short films, as gimlet-eyed and gutsy as they are visually compelling, have gone a long way toward resetting our expectations of pictures and challenging our assumptions about her largely African-American subjects," writes Megan O'Grady in her profile of the artist.
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The debut season of Conviction, a new true crime podcast from Gimlet, follows Gomez as he investigates the case of Pedro Hernandez, a teenager picked up as a suspect in a Bronx shooting and jailed on Rikers Island for over a year awaiting trial.
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IAB has particular insight into the podcasting market, thanks to member companies like Audioboom, Authentic, ESPN Radio, Gimlet Media, How Stuff Works, Market Enginuity, Midroll Media, National Public Media, Panoply, Podcast One, PMM, Turner Podcast Network, Westwood One, WNYC Studios, and Wondery, who underwrote the industry study.
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In a formal announcement issued after Kine's Facebook post, Gimlet stated that these factors led to the company's decision to stop producing the podcast: Mystery Show is an ambitious production and Starlee has an uncompromising vision for the show, which is what makes it so great.
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The Gimlet deal is said to be upwards of $200 million, according to Recode — which broke news of the deal last week — but it isn't yet clear how much the company has spent on Anchor, which helps podcasters record their shows and then distribute them online.
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Spotify, the music streaming platform with 207 million users, is making good on its commitment to invest up to $500 million more into its new podcasting business — a promise it made in February after announcing the acquisitions of podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor for $340 million.
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He wrote on sex for Playboy and on anything and everything for his Gimlet Eye column in National Review, as well as film criticism for the men's magazine Oui, criticism for The New York Times Book Review, celebrity profiles for People and occasional essays for Esquire.
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"I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries, will always and should always put your countries first," Mr. Trump declared to a smattering of applause from an audience that included gimlet-eyed diplomats from some of the countries he criticized.
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But with his first credited directorial outing, the black-and-white "Black Sunday" (July 16 and 23), from 1960, he skillfully honored old-school horror conventions — witches at the stake, spooky paintings, disturbed graves — and wisely cast the gimlet-eyed British actress Barbara Steele in two roles.
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Last month, the company made waves when it announced it would acquire a pair of startups, Gimlet and Anchor, for about $400 million to further its ambitions in spoken word content, and to diversify its business into more than music (and specifically costly licensing deals with record labels).
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The structure means everybody gets eyes on the same level playing field, but we cut to the present, which means that we are living in a post-2014 society, which is to say a post-Serial, a post-Gimlet StartUp, a post-Slow Burn, a post-Dirty John.
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Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Apple plans to create original podcasts to better compete with the likes of like Spotify, which recently acquired Gimlet, Parcast, and Anchor and appears to be tinkering with how best to serve its podcast offerings to its consumer base.
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Meanwhile, Spotify in particular has been especially aggressive about acquiring its own podcast media companies, including Gimlet, which makes popular podcast "Reply All"; Anchor, which creates podcast-making tools for publishing and monetization; and Parcast, another podcast creation network with a deep library of true-life and other content.
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Over the last half-decade, this former tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist and financial pundit has reinvented himself as a gimlet-eyed self-help guru, preaching survival in an era when the American Dream — the gold-embossed college diploma, the corner office, the three-bedroom home — seems like a sham.
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In the third quarter, Spotify launched 22 original and exclusive titles from Spotify Studios, including The Ringer: The Hottest Take and The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet in the U.S. It also launched a number of originals from the studios it recently acquired, Gimlet and Parcast, the company said.
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Like her fellow billionaires Marc Benioff and Jeff Bezos, Laurene Powell Jobs has been investing in media: The company she started in 2004, the Emerson Collective, invested in Axios and Gimlet and has bought the Atlantic and the California Sunday Magazine, which also produces the influential Pop-Up Magazine.
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"What moved the needle is Spotify adding podcasts," Mr. Webster said of the music streaming service, which increased its podcast offerings last year and recently acquired Gimlet Media, the studio behind the popular podcasts "Crimetown" and "Reply All," and Anchor, which makes tools for recording and distributing podcasts.
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But getting a nod of affirmation from an ad heavyweight is a big deal for Gimlet; you could also argue that it's meaningful for the rest of the podcast business, which is still in the process of figuring out how advertising will work for the sort-of new format.
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Acquiring a dedicated studio like Gimlet would allow Spotify to continue to develop its own lines of original content and intellectual property, benefiting not only from additional users and ad revenue, but also from the follow-on effect of whatever else that IP could be turned into down the road.
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If you really are into the business of making stuff out of love or creative or why ever you make a small podcast, you'd find a way, but as it pertains to larger companies, can there be a, say, gimlet-sized company that's able to derive a meaningful membership revenue share?
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The company picked up podcast businesses Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor for a combined $400 million, and has been steadily expanding its lineup of exclusive content, which now includes shows like The Joe Budden Podcast, Stay Free: The Story of the Clash, Jemele Hill Is Unbothered and Amy Schumer Presents, among others.
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" In the pages of his magazine and the clubby dining rooms of his restaurants, Mr. Carter created a version of the fantasy Manhattan that intoxicated him as a child: ice-cold martinis, bon vivant writers, gimlet-eyed gossip in the manner of one of his favorite films, "Sweet Smell of Success.
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Spotify redesigned its app to give podcasts nearly equal footing as songs and it bought two of the leading podcast production companies (Gimlet, Parcast) and one of the most popular production tools (Anchor), positioning it at the heart of the podcast ecosystem and fueling investment interest in the sector more broadly.
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Outlets that have followed Gawker's lead include the original online magazines Slate and Salon; destination sites like Vice Media, HuffPost, Refinery29, The Dodo and Vox; the humor site The Onion; the podcasting company Gimlet Media; the music site Pitchfork; and New York Magazine's online verticals The Cut, Vulture and Intelligencer.
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The show's seven-episode narrative is an intriguing and thoughtful drama, highlighting some of Silicon Valley's inadequacies when it comes to developing technology and fully understanding the ramifications of their creations You can listen to Sandra on Gimlet, or on Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Overcast, RadioPublic, Spotify, Stitcher, or TuneIn.
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Over the past year or so, Spotify has heavily invested in the podcast market, including through acquisitions like Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor — as well as in its programming, like the deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground, for instance, and a quickly growing number of exclusives, windowed-exclusives and originals.
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Recommendations this week: Sandra, a new podcast from Gimlet Media about an AI of the same name; Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer, the artist's latest album (and accompanying short film); this episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, in which Peter interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Emily Steel about the story that took down Bill O'Reilly.
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It is not hard to see why an episode of "Reply All", another Gimlet show, in which a medical con man implanted goat testicles into impotent men, attracted the attention of Hollywood heavyweights Richard Linklater and Robert Downey Jr. But studio executives should take the nature of the podcast into consideration before snapping up rights.
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It noted that the value of its investment in Tencent Music is now €2.3 billion, going up €652 million in the quarter, and it also confirmed that it paid a total of €358 million for three podcasting acquisitions in the period: €308 million for Gimlet Media and Anchor FM, and €21 million for Parcast.
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But its ambitions go far beyond that: In the first half of 2019, Spotify spent over $400 million on podcasting-related companies Gimlet, Anchor, and Parcast; secured exclusive deals with popular personalities like Amy Schumer, Jemele Hill, and the Obamas; and it continues to remove friction from podcast discovery and delivery on its app.
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The pickup is another example of an ongoing trend in the entertainment industry as numerous hit podcasts are snapped up for adaptations, and podcast networks like Gimlet Media (which was just acquired by music streaming service Spotify), have worked not only to develop podcasts, but standalone intellectual property that can yield new revenue down the road.
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ML: The second-largest part of the business is sponsored shows that we make for brands, like the Gatorade show or the Blue Apron show, and then Gimlet Pictures which really only has started in the last year, which is licensing IP and then producing television and film, today is the smallest part of the business, but the fastest growing.
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Ten years after founding the group-discount site, the always-candid Mason looks back on "the fastest-growing company of all time" in a Q&A with Gimlet Media co-founder Alex Blumberg on the new podcast, Without Fail, on which Blumberg interviews entrepreneurs, artists, athletes and visionaries of all kinds about their successes, their failures and what they learned from both.
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On the new podcast, Lieber and Blumberg also talked about how Gimlet is expanding beyond original audio shows like StartUp, Crimetown and Reply All and into two newer businesses: Film and TV adaptations of their podcasts, such as a TV series reworking of the show Homecoming, now starring Julia Roberts, that will hit Amazon this fall; and branded podcasts, which are completely underwritten by a single sponsor.
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In the immediate term, as foreign diplomats sift through Pompeo's pronouncements reflecting hostility to the Iran nuclear deal, some equivocation about Russia's interference in the US presidential election and a gimlet-eyed view of the North Korean threat, they say they aren't sure, at this point, who they should be reaching out to or speaking with, even as a series of important meetings loom.
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These studios have worked with print and digital-media companies to create daily content — Gimlet produces "The Journal" with The Wall Street Journal, Stitcher teamed up with Vox Media to produce "Today, Explained," and Wondery worked with The Boston Globe on "Gladiator" — but TV and radio broadcasters have been reluctant to share content with the rest of the audio industry, the Reuters Institute found.
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The story appears to be a relatively loyal adaptation of the Gimlet Media podcast, a scripted drama that featured an overwhelmingly star-studded cast: Catherine Keener voiced the role of Heidi Burgman, and the cast was rounded out by David Schwimmer as her overbearing boss Colin Belfast (played by Bobby Cannavale in the TV series) and Oscar Isaac as Walter Cruz, a soldier whose case is assigned to Bergman (now played by Stephan James).
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In Q288 results reported today alongside the blockbuster news that it was acquiring Gimlet and Anchor to step up its podcast push, the company said that monthly active users have hit 230 million, up nearly 24.89 percent on a year ago, and that it is for the first time reporting positive operating profit — of €2175 million — and net income — of €22 million, making this Spotify's first-ever quarter to post positive operating profit, net income and free cash flow.
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To get a better sense of how the smart money views this market, I asked five VCs who have spent the most time in this space to share which types of startups have captured their attention: Here are their responses: Matt Hartman, Partner at Betaworks Ventures The most recent wave of audio was about constant connectivity and streaming, and we invested in Anchor, Gimlet, and other audio-first businesses that would thrive in the podcast renaissance.
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That includes an undisclosed sum to pick up a majority chunk of The Atlantic magazine, along with funding to add 100 employees, including the New Yorker writer George Packer and a former Facebook executive, Alex Hardiman; starting a documentary production company, Concordia Studio, with the Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim; buying a large stake in the production, content and talent management powerhouse Anonymous Content, the maker of "Spotlight"; purchasing another in Macro, which finances media focusing on stories of people of color, like "Fences"; and making investments in the online magazine Ozy, the news site Axios and the podcast-making phenom Gimlet Media.
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