Intermediaries · media company
Crooked Media
Political podcast network · Los Angeles
- Founded
- 2017
- Entered
- 2017
- Status 2026
- Active
- Metro
- Los Angeles
- Embeddedness
- 2 connections
- Confidence
- verified · strongest source primary or company
Method
Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor, former Obama staffers, launch Crooked Media in Los Angeles in January 2017 with Pod Save America, funded by advertising, live tours and merchandise. By 2022 it runs more than two dozen podcasts with about 88 staff, signs a multi year deal in March 2022 giving SiriusXM exclusive global ad sales, takes investment from Soros Fund Management and hires Lucinda Treat, formerly of Vice, as its first chief executive.
People: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor
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The path: money and goods moving
- licensed fromSiriusXMSiriusXM takes exclusive global ad sales for Crooked Media's podcasts under a multi year deal signed in March 2022.2022 to present
- came out ofVice MediaVice's former chief legal officer Lucinda Treat becomes Crooked Media's first chief executive in 2022.2022
Sources (primary or company): variety.com · insideradio.com