Fatherly and iHeartMedia Launch New Podcast Now Available on iHeartRadio

The Fatherly Podcast is Hosted by Joshua David Stein and Features Actionable Parenting Tips Alongside Personal Insights From Famous Fathers

New York, NY - October 24, 2017 – Fatherly, the leading digital lifestyle guide for millennial parents, has partnered with iHeartMedia, the leading audio company with the largest reach of any radio or television outlet in America, to launch The Fatherly Podcast on iHeartRadio. Hosted by veteran journalist, children’s book author, and father of two, Joshua David Stein, The Fatherly Podcast is a weekly show about raising children and the lives of men who take on that responsibility. Each episode is built around a wide-ranging interview with a notable father. Interviewees at launch include Emmy Award-winner Sterling K. Brown, preeminent documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan, discussing how they’ve balanced their own ambitions and needs with their family and work lives. By providing influential guests with a comfortable forum to speak about themselves as three-dimensional human beings, Fatherly seeks to provide listeners with a model for how to discuss their own successes and struggles as they navigate this next phase.

“Our goal is to create a podcast that makes fathers feel more empowered,” said Andrew Burmon, Editor-in-Chief, Fatherly. “It’s in Joshua’s nature to ask substantive, probing questions and to be forthcoming and honest about his own experiences. This is about bringing private sentiment into the public square and we do that well.”

Each week Joshua will solicit advice from Fatherly Science Editor Josh Krisch, who surfaces the latest research, data, and advice from leading scholars and academics. As a twist, the podcast also features brief conversations with children from around the country about what matters to them right now. In keeping with what readers have come to expect from Fatherly, Joshua will also provide personal product and entertainment recommendations that parents can apply in their busy day-to-day lives.

“Fatherly has built a strong community of readers and marketing partners alike. Through The Fatherly Podcast, we’re creating a new platform where we can offer both engaging content for our audience and new cross-platform opportunities for marketing partners looking to immerse themselves into deeply meaningful conversations among parents,” said Mike Rothman, CEO, Fatherly. “By partnering with iHeartMedia, we’re reaching a massive national audience of dads and moms that map neatly to our audience. The Fatherly Podcast represents the first step in our audio strategy and we’re fired up about the potential for the platform.”  

“Fatherly has done a tremendous job building their brand and creating great content that we know iHeartRadio listeners will enjoy,” said Chris Peterson, Senior Vice President of Podcasting for iHeartMedia. “We are excited to help Fatherly bring their audio strategy to life with the launch of ‘The Fatherly Podcast’ on iHeartRadio. As a new dad myself, it's a thrill to share their meaningful content with the podcast world and to bring further awareness to Fatherly across our millions of listeners.”  

iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s free all-in-one streaming music radio service with more than 1.4 billion downloads and 100 million registered users, is dedicated to providing an all-in-one listening experience that helps users discover new podcasts alongside their favorite live radio stations, personalities and on-demand music.  With iHeartRadio, listeners can enjoy their music and podcasts across more than 100 unique device platforms including in-car, in-home, on wearables, across gaming consoles and more – making their favorite audio content available everywhere they are, on the devices they use most. Visit iHeart.com/apps to download and listen to The Fatherly Podcast on your favorite device now.

The Fatherly Podcast is sponsored exclusively by Hum by Verizon, TLC, and ADT Home Security. The podcast will also be available for download on Apple Podcasts and Google Play.

ABOUT FATHERLY
Fatherly is the leading digital lifestyle guide for millennial parents. By focusing on dads as well as young moms, Fatherly’s able to capture both sides of the parenting market, provide a differentiated content offering in a space oversaturated with “Mom” content, and hone in on a key insight that today’s parents increasingly share parenting responsibilities and purchasing decisions. Fatherly focuses on expert-driven, evidence-based advice and honest stories told by a diverse group of contributors, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala and her dad, NASA educators and humanitarian, Melinda Gates.

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SpokenEditions Now Available on iHeartRadio

New SpokenEditions from The Huffington Post, Wired, IGN, Slate, and More Join iHeartRadio’s Podcast Lineup, powered by SpokenLayer

April 20, 2017 - New York City - SpokenLayer and iHeartRadio today announced the release of nearly forty SpokenEditions onto iHeartMedia’s all-in-one digital music, podcasting and live streaming radio service. SpokenEditions are human-read versions of written content from premium publishers. The collaboration will bring the audio version of hundreds of news stories to iHeartRadio listeners each week. 

SpokenEditions provides access to audio versions of some of the top written publications across a number of subjects allowing users to stay up to date on world affairs, tech, politics, gaming, science, and lifestyle news from premium publishers including:
 

​Bustle ​Fusion ​Gizmodo ​Huffington Post
​IGN

​The Intercept

​Jezebel ​Lifehacker
​Mashable ​OZY ​Playboy ​Reuters
​Skift ​Slate ​TechCrunch ​Time
​Wired

  
Listenership for podcasts is at an all time high, according to Edison research. 112 million people reported having listened to a podcast. Whether it’s at home, on their commute, as they work, or at the gym, podcast listeners are consuming an average of 5 episodes per week. As people start to experience “screen fatigue” at work and at home, listening to news stories has become a welcome alternative to reading. 

“We’re excited to offer SpokenEditions to our millions of iHeartRadio listeners,” said Chris Peterson, Senior Vice President of Podcasting for iHeartRadio. “We are committed to providing a robust all-in-one listening experience for our users and by teaming up with SpokenLayer, it allows us to bring innovative new content to iHeartRadio that we know our users will love.”

“No other partner offers the massive and multi-channel reach of iHeartRadio. Adding our SpokenEditions to iHeartRadio gives their 100 million registered users access to unique news content from top sources every day unlike traditional weekly podcast content. The deal is a major win for all of our content publishing partners and most of all for listeners,” said Will Mayo, CEO of SpokenLayer.

About SpokenLayer
SpokenLayer is building an audio version of the web, one story at a time. Headquartered in NYC, the company’s turnkey platform transforms written content from publishers into human-read SpokenEditions that can be distributed and monetized. The company works with publishers, advertisers, and distribution platforms to create an addictive audio experience for users and a new ad-based revenue stream for publishers that’s easy to implement.

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iHeartMedia and AdAge Launch Tagline, an Original Podcast with Bulleit Frontier Whiskey, Where Storytellers and Creators Gather Over Cocktails to Discuss Culture and Creativity

iHeartMedia and AdAge Launch Tagline, an Original Podcast with Bulleit Frontier Whiskey, Where Storytellers and Creators Gather Over Cocktails to Discuss Culture and Creativity

Premier episode to feature guests Wendy Clark, President and CEO of DDB North America and Rob Reilly, Global Creative Chairman of McCann Worldgroup; as well as host Rob Norman, Chairman of GroupM North America on whether marketers are making or chasing culture today

WHAT: Advertising Age and iHeartMedia come together with Bulleit Frontier Whiskey to create Tagline, the new definitive podcast for creators and consumers to listen, learn and laugh over cocktails as some of the most successful people in and around culture today discuss their craft.

As the presenting sponsor of Tagline season one, Bulleit Frontier Whiskey will work with AdAge and iHeartMedia to craft stories and experiences centered around the cultural frontier. Bulleit and its family of high-rye, award-wining variants will provide inspired cocktails to Tagline guests throughout the season, and will work with award-winning mixologists to curate cocktails based on each episode’s discussion topic. The premier episode features Jeff Bell, 2013 World Class American Bartender of the Year.

Tagline will be one of the first podcasts to benefit from iHeartMedia’s recently announced partnership with ART19 to provide first-of-its-kind listening data about when users start, stop, and skip during an episode, as well as listener demographics.

WHO: Hosted by Rob Norman, Chairman of GroupM North America, the premier episode of Tagline will also feature C-level executives in advertising: Rob Reilly, Global Creative Chairman of McCann Worldgroup; and Wendy Clark, President & CEO of DDB North America.

WHEN: Monday, February 6, 2017

WHERE: Tagline will air twice monthly on iHeartRadio and AdAge.com

About Advertising Age
Advertising Age is the leading global source of news, intelligence and conversation for the marketing and media community. Ad Age connects today’s top marketers and brands online, in print and in person with analysis and insights, events including the Ad Age Brand Summit and Ad Age A-List & Creativity Awards, and industry data including the Agency Report and Leading National Advertisers.

About Bulleit® Frontier Whiskey
The Bulleit Distilling Co. was founded in 1987 by Tom Bulleit, whose Bulleit Bourbon is inspired by a family tradition. Bulleit Rye, a straight rye whiskey, was added to the portfolio in 2011 to critical acclaim, and the brand's third variant, Bulleit Bourbon 10-Years Old, was introduced in 2013. Bulleit whiskeys use a large amount of rye grain, which gives them their distinctive bold, spicy taste. Bulleit ranks as one of the fastest-growing whiskeys in America, which Tom largely credits to word of mouth recommendations. In 2014, Bulleit broke ground on a new $115 million distillery located in Shelby County, Ky., anticipated to be operational by early 2017. Guests are invited to learn more about the past, present and future of Bulleit by visiting the Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Experience at Stitzel-Weller in Louisville, Ky., a member of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® tour. For more information, visit www.bulleit.com.

About Diageo
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Diageo is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (DGE) and our products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world. For more information about Diageo, our people, our brands, and performance, visit us at www.diageo.com. Visit Diageo's global responsible drinking resource, www.DRINKiQ.com, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practice. Follow us on Twitter for news and information about Diageo North America: @Diageo_NA. Celebrating life, every day, everywhere.

Please enjoy Bulleit Frontier Whiskey responsibly. The producers of Bulleit Bourbon and The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (FAAR) support responsible decision-making.

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