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The Ringer (website)

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The Ringer
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Type of site
Sports, popular culture
OwnerSpotify
URLtheringer.com
CommercialYes
LaunchedMarch 14, 2016; 6 years ago (2016-03-14)

The Ringer is a sports and pop culture website and podcast network, founded by sportswriter Bill Simmons in 2016 and owned by Spotify since 2020.[1][2][3]

History

The Ringer was launched in March 2016 by Bill Simmons, who brought along several editors who had previously worked with him on Grantland, an ESPN-owned blog he operated from 2011 to 2015.[2] At launch, the Ringer had a staff of 43 and focused primarily on sports and pop culture as content areas, with a few writers also working on technology and politics.[2] HBO, the network on which Simmons hosted his weekly television program Any Given Wednesday one season in 2016, was an initial investor in the website.[2]

The website was previously published on the Medium platform.[4] In May 2017, The Ringer entered into an advertising and technology partnership with Vox Media (owner of SB Nation), under which Vox would handle advertising sales, and give the site access to its in-house publishing platform.[5]

Former Grantland writers who have since written for or worked for The Ringer include Mark Titus, Shea Serrano, Ben Lindbergh, Robert Mays, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, Mallory Rubin, Juliet Litman, Craig Gaines, Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker, Ryan O'Hanlon, Danny Chau, Jason Concepcion, Riley McAtee, Joe Fuentes, and Tate Frazier.[6]

In May 2018, The Ringer published a story by Ben Detrick about Bryan Colangelo,[7] then the GM of the Philadelphia 76ers, and his apparent use of various Twitter accounts to criticize players and defend himself. This led to Colangelo's resignation on June 7, 2018.[8]

In August 2019, The Ringer's editorial staff voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East. The union was voluntarily recognized by the Ringer's management four days later.[9]

On February 5, 2020, subscription music streaming service Spotify announced it was acquiring The Ringer for an estimated $195 million and an additional $50 million in performance-driven incentives.[10] Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff stated that Simmons was "one of the brightest minds in the game and he has successfully innovated as a writer and content creator across mediums and platforms."[3][11]

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ESPN

ESPN

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HBO

HBO

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Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons

Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons

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Medium (website)

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SB Nation

SB Nation

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Mark Titus

Mark Titus

Mark Titus is an author, podcast host, and former walk-on basketball player at Ohio State.

Shea Serrano

Shea Serrano

Shea Serrano is an American author, journalist, and former teacher. He is best known for his work with the sports and pop culture websites, The Ringer and Grantland, as well as his books, including The Rap Year Book, Basketball and Movies , all of which were The New York Times #1 best-sellers. Writing about Serrano for GQ, Chris Gayomali said: "If you were to draw a triple Venn diagram of hoops, trunk bangers, and jokes made at the expense of J. Cole, Grantland writer Shea Serrano would be smack-dab in the center, probably wearing a Tim Duncan jersey." Serrano's activity and humor on Twitter have earned a devoted following, nicknamed the FOH Army.

Juliet Litman

Juliet Litman

Juliet Elinor Litman is an American journalist, editor, and American media personality. As of 2017, she is the Head of Production at The Ringer, Bill Simmons' latest online enterprise. Litman is the former host of the Right Reasons and NBA After Dark podcasts and was also formerly the Special Projects Editor at Grantland.

Bryan Colangelo

Bryan Colangelo

Bryan Paul Colangelo is an American basketball executive who was the former general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors and Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also served as president of basketball operations for Philadelphia and Toronto. He is the son of Phoenix sports mogul Jerry Colangelo. He graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business management and applied economics. He was the 2005 and 2007 recipient of the NBA Executive of the Year Award.

Philadelphia 76ers

Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers, colloquially known as the Sixers, are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division and play at the Wells Fargo Center located in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA and one of only eight to survive the league's first decade.

Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 489 million monthly active users, including 205 million paying subscribers, as of December 2022. Spotify is listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts.

Content

Like the content on the website, the Ringer's podcast network covers both sports and pop culture.[12] The flagship podcast, The Bill Simmons Podcast, is an interview show hosted by Simmons, featuring other Ringer writers and podcast hosts as well as athletes, filmmakers, comedians, and pop culture figures. Popular podcast hosts include former Daily Show correspondent Larry Wilmore (host of Black on the Air) and James Beard Award-winning chef David Chang (The Dave Chang Show).[12]

Former podcasts include Keepin' it 1600, a politics podcast featuring former Obama speechwriters Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, and others. After leaving the Ringer, the hosts of Keepin' it 1600 created a new podcast called Pod Save America as part of their own new media company, Crooked Media.[13]

In 2017, The Ringer began the video podcast series Talk the Thrones, an aftershow for Game of Thrones hosted by Ringer staff writers and live-streamed on Twitter.[14] Talk the Thrones is a continuation of After the Thrones, which aired on HBO.[15]

The Ringer premiered Binge Mode in 2017, a podcast that has recapped every episode of Game of Thrones and every book in the Harry Potter series.[16]

As of April 30, 2018, The Ringer's world-wide Alexa ranking is 2,077 with over 15 million views per month. Of those, 6,150,000 are unique visitors.[17]

Podcasts

The list of podcasts offered as of August 2021.[18] The Ringer podcast network features a slate of more than 30 podcasts. Since being acquired by Spotify in February 2020, The Ringer has continued to publish its podcasts across platforms while promoting additional shows that are exclusive to Spotify.

  • The Bill Simmons Podcast
  • The Ryen Russillo Podcast
  • The Rewatchables
  • Higher Learning
  • The Ringer NBA Show
  • The Ringer-Verse
  • Book of Basketball 2.0
  • The Ringer NFL Show
  • The Ringer Fantasy Football Show
  • 10 Questions With Kyle Brandt
  • New York, New York
  • The Mismatch
  • Binge Mode
  • The Hottest Take
  • The Big Picture
  • The Watch
  • Flying Coach
  • No Skips With Jinx and Shea
  • 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
  • Gene and Roger
  • The Ringer Guide to the Summer Games
  • What If? The Len Bias Story
  • Black Girl Songbook
  • Every Single Album: Taylor Swift
  • The Ringer Music Show
  • Bachelor Party
  • Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
  • R2C2
  • The Bakari Sellers Podcast
  • Wrighty's House
  • The Dave Chang Show
  • Stadio
  • The Press Box
  • Sports Cards Nonsense
  • Baseball BBQ
  • The Ringer MLB Show
  • TV Concierge
  • 'The Wire': Way Down in the Hole
  • Sound Only
  • Boom/Bust: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia
  • Gamblers
  • The Cam Chronicles
  • The Rugby Pod
  • The Masked Man Show
  • Jam Session
  • Tea Time
  • Fairway Rollin'
  • Recipe Club
  • Sonic Boom

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David Chang

David Chang

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Jon Favreau (speechwriter)

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Pod Save America

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Crooked Media

Crooked Media

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. The show was shot in the United Kingdom, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, and Spain. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons.

After the Thrones

After the Thrones

After the Thrones is an American live television aftershow that premiered on April 25, 2016, and ended on June 28, 2016. It was hosted by Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan who discussed episodes of the HBO television series Game of Thrones. The talk show was executive produced by Bill Simmons and Eric Weinberger. Greenwald and Ryan previously hosted a podcast version of the show titled Watch the Thrones on Simmons' Grantland website. A similar talk show called Thronecast aired on British channel Sky Atlantic, which also discussed episodes of Game of Thrones.

Binge Mode

Binge Mode

Binge Mode is a pop culture podcast produced by The Ringer. It is hosted by the website's editor-in-chief, Mallory Rubin, and former senior creative, Jason Concepcion. The first episode premiered on June 5, 2017. Binge Mode has been named to "best podcast" lists by Time, USA Today, and Adweek.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic and subjugate all wizards and Muggles.

Source: "The Ringer (website)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, October 29th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ringer_(website).

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Bill Simmons

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Dawn Ostroff

Sal Iacono

Grantland

After the Thrones

Keepin' It 1600

Tommy Vietor

Pod Save America

Binge Mode
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