SiriusXM Buys Team Coco; Conan O’Brien To Remain Host Of Flagship Podcast, Launch New Comedy Channel In Multi-Year Deal

SiriusXM has obtained Workforce Coco, Conan O’Brien’s podcast community and digital media business enterprise, including his well-known podcast Conan O’Brien Demands a Friend. Staff Coco’s team will proceed to generate the network’s slate of podcasts and collaborate on new articles for SiriusXM.

The deal contains a five-year talent settlement for O’Brien to remain host of his namesake podcast, which will continue on to be out there extensively.

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He’ll also collaborate with SiriusXM to build and exec produce a new total-time, unique Crew Coco comedy channel for SiriusXM subscribers.

The arrangement also features distribution of pick out movie from Conan’s podcast as well as from the archives of his extended-functioning late-night time present on TBS, reside gatherings and products from the Workforce Coco models.

Crew Coco introduced a decade back and has garnered more than 1 billion once-a-year movie views throughout YouTube and Facebook. It averages 180 million once-a-year podcast downloads and reaches 17 million enthusiasts across social media. Its flagship podcast, Conan O’Brien Wants a Good friend, which was made with Stitcher’s Earwolf, ranks as one particular of the five most searched-for podcasts and not too long ago received two Webby Awards. The offer lends Team Coco the promotional energy of SiriusXM, Pandora and Stitcher listening platforms – “amplifying the network’s voices and extending the Workforce Coco brand name to new audiences,” the announcement explained.

“When I started out in television, my ultimate purpose was to perform my way up to radio,” the comic said. “This new deal with SiriusXM builds on the terrific romantic relationship that began numerous decades ago with a group that is the standout in their subject.”

Said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM information chief: “Conan has crafted an awesome manufacturer and business at Workforce Coco, with a confirmed track history of discovering and launching powerful and addictive podcasts. We appear forward to continuing to develop the Group Coco brand.”

As section of the acquisition, SXM Media, the mixed advertising profits firm of SiriusXM, expands its special global ad illustration further than Workforce Coco podcasts these kinds of as Nicole Byer’s Why Won’t You Day Me? and JB Smoove’s May I Elaborate?, along with its Stitcher co-productions Scam Goddess with Laci Mosley, Practically! with Rob Lowe, The Three Thoughts with Andy Richter and Parks and Recollection to consist of digital movie, social media and dwell functions involved with Crew Coco’s houses.

Group Coco podcasts will proceed to be out there on Stitcher, the SXM App, Pandora and significant podcast listening platforms.

Financial facts weren’t discovered, but the WSJ said insiders pegged the deal at about $150 million.

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