![]() There are already more than 550,000 podcasts globally on the Apple Podcast app, one of the most popular outlets for podcasts. Podcasts are expected to take in $514.5 million in ad dollars this year, up 28% from 2018, according to Interactive Advertising Bureau and PwC. ![]() In sign of the guild’s growing interest in the medium, the WGA East is launching its own podcast series this week that features commentary from people who worked on such popular series as “Homecoming” and “Limetown.” More bargaining sessions are set for December with talks expected to go into the new year. “We hope to strengthen our already amazing workplace culture and ensure that everyone who works at The Ringer, from video to editorial, from senior staffers to entry-level hires, receives necessary support, protection, and fair compensation,” said The Ringer Union an August statement.Īt the end of October, the bargaining committee celebrated the wrap of its first session tweeting a photo of the group. The businesses are related because The Ringer’s site is hosted on Vox Media’s content management system. ![]() we’re going to work toward a contract that includes equitable salary bands, rules around contractor employment, concrete diversity initiatives, protection of our IP, and more.”Ī spokesman for The WGA East said it organized The Ringer after a similar successful effort this summer at Vox Media Inc., which owns The Verge, Recode and other digital media outlets. The Gimlet Union, which formally emerged about a month after Sweden-based Spotify announced a takeover of the 5-year-old podcast company, said in a tweet that their members have helped the company grow from a “small, scrappy operation into a company worth $230 million. The guild scored a coup in March when Brooklyn-based Gimlet Media, one of the early pioneers of podcasting with such popular shows as “Reply All,” became the first podcast company to join the guild. “There is very much the sense that unions are more essential than ever.” “We see how the media landscape is changing, and our goal is to keep pace with it,” Peterson said. One person close to the company, who asked not to be identified, said the office environment had become more tense after the scrutiny of certain perks, such as working from home.Ī spokesperson for The Ringer said Simmons and Crichton declined to comment. The rap prompted a swift backlash on social media, with some Ringer fans suggesting the company was “anti-union.”įour long-serving contributors have left the site since September. Last month, Simmons’s nephew Kyle Crichton, a producer at The Ringer who appears on Simmons’ popular podcast, posted a rap to his Soundcloud page called “State of the Union,” rhyming about not wanting a handout and a lockout. This summer they formed a 66-member union with the Writers Guild of America East and management moved quickly to recognize it.īut the process has not been seamless. site grew, however, so did the demands of his employees. When Bill Simmons, the popular former ESPN sports columnist set up The Ringer in 2016, he drew legions of fans to his irreverent sports podcasts.
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