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Today, Vox Media announced that the podcast The Pitch, hosted by Josh Muccio, is joining the Vox Media Podcast Network. The Pitch will remain independently owned, with Vox Media taking on sales, marketing, and distribution for the show, and working with the team to explore new opportunities for growth and expansion. The show, which features a curated lineup of start-up founders pitching their businesses to real investors, will join a robust slate of business-minded podcasts at Vox Media, which include On with Kara Swisher, Pivot, Decoder with Nilay Patel, Land of the Giants, The Prof G Pod, The Vergecast, Recode Media, and more. It will release its first season with Vox Media in February 2023. A special preview episode will also be released later this month, giving listeners an inside look at the making of the show.
“Vox Media is home to so many great shows, and their business programming is unrivaled,” says Muccio. “It truly couldn’t be a better fit for The Pitch. I can’t wait to see what we’re able to accomplish together.”
The Pitch joins Vox Media after recently spinning out from Spotify’s Gimlet Media as an independent company. The show was created by Muccio and his wife, Lisa, in 2015, who, after years running their own e-commerce company, decided to leave it all behind to launch a podcast bringing listeners inside the world of fundraising. With accolades in outlets including CNN, Forbes, Inc., Insider, and more, the show reaches an audience of hundreds of thousands of listeners including entrepreneurs and business leaders, and has made a name for itself for digging deeply into founders’ stories, and following up with featured start-ups even after they’ve secured funding.
“We have long been fans of The Pitch, which peels back the curtain on the investing process, and puts a spotlight on the stories of entrepreneurs as they look to fund and grow their companies,” says Vox Media’s general manager for audio and digital video Ray Chao. “We are thrilled to be able to bring our audience at the Vox Media Podcast Network more of the content they crave, and to round out our slate with a show that brings such a fresh and original approach to covering this world.”
At Vox Media, The Pitch joins a network that is a market leader in business content in both scale and influence, with awards in business including “Best Thought Leadership Podcast” from Adweek (Pivot), “Best Tech Podcast” from the Webbys (The Vergecast), and more. The show will also be exposed to editorial networks at Vox Media that have significant reach among business-minded audiences, including The Verge, Recode by Vox, and Intelligencer. It comes on the heels of a period of growth for the Vox Media Podcast Network, which recently launched new podcasts from Kara Swisher (On with Kara Swisher) and Sam Sanders (Into It).
About the Vox Media Podcast Network:
Home to award-winning shows like Today, Explained, Criminal, Pivot, and Stay Tuned with Preet, the Vox Media Podcast Network features industry-leading voices and storytellers from Vox Media’s editorial networks and beyond. From daily news and tech to culture and sports, and talk and interview shows to news and rich narrative storytelling, the Vox Media Podcast Network is one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most topically diverse collections of premium podcasts. Learn more about the Vox Media Podcast Network here.
