Movie star athlete couple Sue Chicken and Megan Rapinoe are teaming with Vox Media to relaunch and increase their podcast “A Contact Extra Dwell” and sports activities and pop-culture podcast.
New episodes of “A Contact Extra Dwell,” which Chicken and Rapinoe began as an Instagram Dwell collection through the COVID pandemic, will premiere later this summer season (with a launch date TBA). Chicken and Rapinoe will supply scorching takes on the most recent sports activities information and tales, in addition to host particular friends.
Chicken and Rapinoe’s “A Contact Extra Dwell” shall be produced by Vox Media in partnership with their A Contact Extra manufacturing firm and Togethxr, the media and commerce firm co-founded by Chicken and athletes Alex Morgan, Chloe Kim and Simone Manuel. Vox Media will head up gross sales, advertising and marketing and distribution for “A Contact Extra Dwell,” and the corporate will work with Chicken and Rapinoe to “discover further franchise enlargement alternatives resembling stay occasion activations.”
In partnership with Vox Media, the “A Contact Extra Dwell” podcast will publish audio and video episodes weekly throughout platforms together with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. The video model of the podcast shall be co-distributed by Togethxr.
“We’re thrilled to have A Contact Extra associate with Vox Media to increase ‘A Contact Extra Dwell’ right into a dynamic podcast that explores the intersection of sports activities and popular culture,” Chicken and Rapinoe in an announcement. “Producing the present through the pandemic sparked our bigger curiosity in manufacturing which ultimately led to us launching our firm, A Contact Extra, so this present holds a particular place in our hearts. We’re excited for ‘A Contact Extra Dwell’ to be a spot for thrilling, sincere conversations with compelling friends.”
Ray Chao, Vox Media’s SVP and common supervisor for audio and video, commented, “Megan and Sue are singular voices who’re utilizing their platforms as world champion athletes to inform tales and make clear essential points impacting our society at present.”
Chicken, throughout a basketball profession spanning three a long time, is certainly one of solely seven girls to win an Olympic gold medal, a FIBA Ladies’s Basketball World Cup gold medal, an NCAA championship and a WNBA championship. Soccer begin Rapinoe is a two-time FIFA Ladies’s World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist.
Vox Media’s podcast lineup consists of exhibits from analysis professor Brené Brown, former U.S. Legal professional Preet Bharara, tech reviewer Marques Brownlee, psychotherapist Esther Perel, and journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Stern advertising and marketing professor Scott Galloway. “A Contact Extra Dwell” will be part of the corporate’s slate of sports activities franchises which together with SB Nation’s narrative collection “Secret Base” (hosted by Jon Bois), “Level Ahead” (hosted by former NBA gamers Andre Iguodala and Evan Turner) and “The MMA Hour” (hosted by sports activities journalist Ariel Helwani).
Penske Media Corp., proprietor of Selection, turned Vox Media’s largest single shareholder final yr after PMC acquired a minority stake within the firm.