Month: May 2020

iHeartMedia and Aaron Mahnke Sign Multi-Year Partnership Extension

~ jen

iHeartMedia announced a multi-year extension to the iHeartPodcast Network’s exclusive partnership with esteemed author and podcast creator, Aaron Mahnke.

The deal includes two more years of new content for the popular Cabinet of Curiosities, two new seasons of Unobscured, as well an executive producer role for the newly launched Strange Arrivals, additional seasons of Noble Blood and a new scripted series set to launch this fall.

Additionally, the partnership will add a slate of five new podcasts to feature groundbreaking talent including Rabia Chaudry – attorney, advocate and author of the New York Times bestselling book “Adnan’s Story.”

A pioneer of the podcasting medium, Mahnke rose to fame several years ago with his megahit show Lore, which is still one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world and was spun off into a TV show, book series and live tour. In 2018, iHeartMedia and Mahnke entered into an exclusive partnership to create an original slate of podcasts.

This resulted in new, huge hits like Unobscured and Cabinet of Curiosities. As part of this deal, Mahnke also began to executive produce new shows including Noble Blood, which reached the top of podcast charts everywhere when it launched last year.

In addition to being available on digital, full episodes and vignettes of the extended content slate will air on broadcast radio, bringing this exceptional storytelling to iHeartMedia’s more than a quarter of a billion monthly broadcast listeners.

Podfund Will Release Original Podcast in Spring and Summer of 2020

~ jen

Podfund announced some upcoming releases from storytellers from the Podfund portfolio. Here are a few to look forward to:

Against The Rules – Season 2 premieres May 5

Against The Rules is best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis’s searing look at fairness in every aspect of American life – financial markets, newsrooms, sports arenas, courts of law and more. In Season 2, he examines the role of coaches in society. It seems like there’s a coach for everything and, in most cases, they are revered. But who has access to these coaches and who doesn’t? And what does that mean for all of us?

The Last Archive – Premieres May 14

Who killed the truth? In The Last Archive, acclaimed historian Jill Lepore is hot on the trail of the “murderer,” dodging fake news and alternative facts as she examines ten events across the 20th century – from a brutal death in Vermont, to the invention of the lie detector, to the first use of data in a presidential election. Each story is a clue in her case. Listeners accompany her on literal and figurative journeys as she reanimates the past with rich archival audio, lively field investigations, and radio drama-style reenactments. The Last Archive unfurls like a classic 1930s radio drama but takes on the big issues of today.

Revisionist History – Season 5 Premieres June 18

Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past – an event, a person an idea, even a song – and asks whether we got it right the first time. It has been singled out as a top history podcast by Time, Oprah, and Good Housekeeping, to name a few, and is a mainstay of top podcast charts. Gladwell is a best-selling author, New Yorker writer, and podcast pioneer. Revisionist History’s fifth season will explore how we memorialize war, why museums are hoarders, and whether lotteries would yield better results than elections.