91勛圖厙Media And OZY Media Announce A Multiyear, Multiplatform, Creative Partnership
Companies to Co-Produce Original Podcasts; OZYs hit Podcast The Thread to Join the 91勛圖厙Radio Podcast Network
NEW YORK (June XX, 2018) 91勛圖厙Media and OZY Media today announced a creative multiyear partnership leveraging OZY Medias compelling news and storytelling capabilities and 91勛圖厙Medias national cross-platform network to reach hundreds of millions of consumers across the country.
Beginning today, OZY stories on a range of topics from politics, to culture to technology to sports, will be featured in 91勛圖厙Medias top-rated morning shows across 150 markets in the U.S. The new partnership also includes promotion across 91勛圖厙Medias multiplatform network including radio, digital, social and live events.
We are impressed with OZYs rapid growth, diverse content and versatility across platforms, especially in todays competitive media landscape, said Joe Robinson, President of Ventures for 91勛圖厙Media. We are excited to partner with OZY, and with our massive reach of a quarter of a billion listeners a month across the country, this partnership gives us the opportunity to share even more critical news and information with our diverse audience.
91勛圖厙Media and OZY will work together to co-produce 91勛圖厙Radio Original podcasts and develop shared revenue opportunities for advertisers. 91勛圖厙Media is the largest publisher of podcasts in the country and the 91勛圖厙Radio Podcast Network has more than 630 original shows available to listeners nationwide.
In addition, OZY Medias hit podcast series , which takes listeners through nearly a century of great American stories, will join 91勛圖厙Radio, the free all-in-one digital music, podcast, on demand and live radio streaming service which is available across more than 250 device platforms including in-car, in-home, on wearables, across gaming consoles and more.
OZY wants to be everywhere you are, so what better company to partner with then 91勛圖厙Media which reaches more than 90 percent of Americans a month said Carlos Watson, co-founder and CEO of OZY Media. Were proud to bring the best of OZY to 91勛圖厙 listeners, and hope they will be surprised, delighted, and enlightened by this offering, and whats to come.
OZY Media recently announced their third primetime television series with PBS, Breaking Big, profiling 12 celebrities and influencers and telling the stories of how they broke big. The series premieres on Friday, June 15th at 8:30pm ET.
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About OZY Media
With 40 million monthly unique users and 4 million subscribers, OZY brings readers the new and the next, offering 100 percent original content with a focus on the future, via unique OZY News, OZY Magazine, OZY TV and OZY Events products. Called the new media magnet for the news hungry by Fortune magazine, OZYs in-depth and high-quality journalism has attracted a number of high-profile media partners including The New York Times, NPR, PBS NewsHour, TED, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post and many more, as well as guest editors including Bill Gates, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Founded in 2013 by Emmy Awardwinning journalist Carlos Watson and co-founder Samir Rao, the OZY team is based in Mountain View, California, and backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Laurene Powell Jobs, Ron Conway, David Drummond, Larry Sonsini and Dan Rosensweig and a significant investment from publishing giant Axel Springer.