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Today, I welcome Ariel Emanuel CEO of Endeavor Talent Agency. His high-stake, successful career has taught him a lot about how change is the only constant in...
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Sep 25, 2018 · You know, you’ve been involved in so many high-stakes deals, representing both Hollywood stars and then huge media organizations. So what’s the key to achieving a successful outcome?
Aug 9, 2024 · Home. Business. Digital. The Most Powerful People in Podcasting in 2024. From true crime masters to comedy titans, here are the on-air talent and behind-the-scenes dealmakers (increasingly the...
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WILL ARNETT, JASON BATEMAN, SEAN HAYES — SmartLess
Introduced at the height of the pandemic, SmartLess provided much-needed laughs thanks to the chop-busting banter of its hosts. The trio of famous funnymen had no trouble enlisting their equally famous friends to stop by, everyone from Will Ferrell to Paul McCartney to Jennifer Aniston. By June 2021, Amazon and Wondery bought SmartLessfor $80 million. A live, six-city tour kicked off two months after that, and a slate of spinoffs is in the works.
MICHAEL BARBARO, SABRINA TAVERNISE — The Daily
The essential New York Times news program continues its multiyear streak as one of the top-charting podcasts in the space. This year, host Barbaro added a co-host, veteran reporter Tavernise. PODCASTING IS THE IDEAL MEDIUM FOR … TAVERNISE “Really bringing people into the upside-down nature of a place in war. It captures the fear, and sometimes funniness, the strange, unbelievable situations middle class people find themselves suddenly in, and brings the listener right there to hear them tryin...
JAKE BRENNAN — Disgraceland
Drawing on Brennan’s lifelong love of music (he wrote the show’s theme song), Disgraceland weaves together pop history and true crime for an addictive 30-minute pod about musicians doing — or undergoing — very bad things. THE PODCAST I WISH I’D CREATED? “Whatever podcast Martin Scorsese decides to eventually be a part of.” PODCASTING IS THE IDEAL MEDIUM FOR …“Anyone alive in 2022.”
ACAST — Oskar Serrander, Veronika Taylor, Georgina Holt, Tiffany Ashitey
Primarily a hosting and monetization platform, Acast has attracted talent like Anna Faris and Brett Goldstein. Earlier this year, the company’s podcast team scored a coup by bringing O.G. podcaster Marc Maron over to the Acast network from SiriusXM and Stitcher. THE PODCAST I WISH I’D SIGNED? SERRANDER “SmartLess is the podcast that got away.” THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE TO DEVELOPING A GOOD PODCAST? TAYLOR “Thinking through the why. Like any medium, audiences will only find and stick to listening...
AUDACY — J.D. Crowley
Crowley oversees Audacy’s podcast subsidiaries Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Studios. Last summer, he led an overarching deal with Major League Baseball for audio content, making Audacy the official podcast and audio partner for the organization. PODCASTING IS THE IDEAL MEDIUM FOR … “KIDS! Podcast > Screen Time.” LISTENING SPEED? “Normally 1.5X unless it’s a beautifully spun narrative, in which case it’s just wrong not to enjoy the way the creator intended.”
AUDIBLE — Rachel Ghiazza, Zola Mashariki
The Amazon-owned audio company has been on a dealmaking spree of late, securing content partnerships with top talent like Kerry Washington, Issa Rae, George Clooney, LeBron James, Kevin Hart and Charlamagne tha God. And, oh yeah, the Obamas. THE FIRST PODCAST THAT HOOKED ME? GHIAZZA “The first season of Slow Burn. It took a story from history and made it feel like it was happening in real time.” MASHARIKI “Serial. Does everybody say that?! It was such a seminal and thrilling podcast that real...
OREN ROSENBAUM
UTA’s head of audio, Rosenbaum has helped major Hollywood players including Will Ferrell pivot into podcasting, and is behind Alex Cooper’s $60 million Spotify deal and the $100 million My Favorite Murder deal with Wondery. THE FIRST PODCAST THAT HOOKED ME? “Serial” THE LAST PODCAST THAT HOOKED ME? “Huberman Lab“ THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION ABOUT MY JOB? “That I spend all day listening to podcasts.” LISTENING SPEED? “1x – anything else is blasphemous.”
JOSH LINDGREN + CAROLINE EDWARDS
As CAA’s head of podcasts, Lindgren reps leading voices like NPR’s Ari Shapiro, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal, and SmartLess, for which he did the Amazon/Wondery deal. Edwards, who joined CAA following its acquisition of ICM, has brokered deals for clients including John Stamos, Alan Cumming and Tig Notaro, and represents hot titles like Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers’ Pantsuit Politics. THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION ABOUT MY JOB? LINDGREN “The idea that agents are motivated by money above...
BEN DAVIS + MARISSA HURWITZ
Davis and Hurwitz represent leading podcasts and hosts such as Dax Shepard, Brené Brown, Glennon Doyle and Rob Lowe, while Hurwitz did Morbid‘s deal with Amazon/Wondery. The agents have helped reinvent IP for the podcast space (specifically with Spotify’s Batman Unburied) and helped expand the empires of brands such as Crooked Media. LISTENING SPEED? DAVIS “1.5x.” Written by Seth Abramovitch, Gary Baum, J. Clara Chan, Evan Nicole Brown, Mia Galuppo, James Hibberd, Caitlin Huston, Mikey O’Conn...
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Joe Valley sits down with EXITpreneur Dan Smith in a two-part discussion about leaving a career as a Hollywood executive to bootstrapping his own business.
Aug 16, 2023 · In this podcast episode, Ari Emanuel, a Hollywood executive and co-CEO of Endeavor, shares his journey to success and the lessons he has learned along the way.
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