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Good morning! Paramount and Trump yet to arrive at CBS News News in Northrop Grumman Invested in Rocket Developer in the US You want real crime – even if you haven’t listened.
– Listen. In an average week during the first three months of this year, 6.4 million Americans listen Crime Junkie. That’s true crime hosted by ashley flowers, which last seven years have established an Indiana-based empire-and now there are ambitions to be a real media empire.
Crime JunkieThe hearers make it to the stats of No. 2 Podcasts of the US-and make flowers to the country’s main female podcaster. (Alex Cooper’s Call his Dad The No. 4.) “I’ll take Joe Rogan one day,” The flowers joke when I talked to his backstage with one of his living Seattle performances last month. Thousands of fans drive hours to see the flowers of man, where he tells the story of an unresolved 1987 Colorado killing and the wrong conviction. He further moved his audience to do the action, encouraged them to contact the General of State State.
Flowers are the creation force behind his performance, but 36-year-olds also balances a second job as CEO of Parent AudioChuck company, with 70 employees and 20 podcasts. “I’m not from a media background,” as the flowers, that before the launch Crime Junkie There is a business development for a software company. “I was just scrapping and dressed in a lot of hats.” He usually comes to the office at 4:30 am to fulfill dual roles. The hard work of Audiochuck has earned $ 45 million income last year, According to Bloomberg (Credit flowers under the overhead cost of Indiana for approval of that number), and a valuation of $ 250 million. The flowers print two mystery novels (the second, In the past this month) And have its own canals in SiriusXM, too, in charge of advertising for the AudioChuck podcast network.
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She is in accordance with the real crime and say she remembers the facts in every case she works in the first hundredth podcast periods. “It’s a human nature we want to understand things that don’t understand,” he said. “Troubleshoot puzzles – your brain tries to get along the pieces together.”
The flowers now carry a new CEO, wealth the first reported. Matthew Starker came from enduave streaming, where he was the principal business officer. He joined Audiochuck after a $ 40 million investment From the Chanin group in February-and was intended to bring flowers of flowers in life that the audience for real crime is greater than 6.4 million listening Crime Junkie. Starker says the overall address market for real crime fans around 230 million. “If you enjoy someone who tells you a strange story with blade twists and turns, you want Crime Junkie“Starker said.
Audiochuck aims to switch to film and television – which prompts flowers to bring outside investment to help him navigate to new industries. “Taking possessions and IPs they build and extend that in video and television, there is a lot of potential,” says Starker. Some of them can be true crime – a TV change in Crime Junkie can look something like a modern Datugo-This will continue to script content in mystery and thrillers genre. (Under what name-audiochuck? Crime Junkie? Himself? -Is still tbd.) “What bloushouse is for terror, I want Audiochuck to be for mystery and thriller,” Thriller said.
Emma Hinchliffe
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