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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It seems like there are countless streamers these days – there's Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, Max, Peacock, Roku, just to name a few. Still, success and profit remain elusive to even some of the biggest in the biz. However there is one smaller streamer that seems to have found a path to prosperity: Dropout. In this encore episode, IBAM host Brittany Luse sat down with Dropout CEO Sam Reich earlier this year to find out how his company is forging a path to success in a successful market, all while revamping the gameshow format. The pair also play a little gameshow game.

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0:00.0	Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.
0:07.0	If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.
0:12.0	I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American
0:16.0	I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public
0:21.2	Radio, part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	Hello, hello, I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to
0:30.0	It's been a minute from NPR.
0:32.0	A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:37.0	It seems like there are a bajillion streamers these days. You've got your Netflix,
0:48.1	you've got your Hulu, Disney Plus, Max, Paramount, Roku, everyone once in on streaming.
0:55.0	And they're all kind of doing the same thing,
0:57.2	trying to find the next big game of Thrones or Stranger Things,
1:00.6	a premium show that will blow up and suddenly make them all rich.
1:04.8	Today I'm going to put yet another streamer on your radar.
1:08.0	I know there are already so many, but trust me, this streamer, Drop Out, is doing things a little differently.
1:14.8	Rather than trying to compete with Netflix or Amazon or Hulu or anyone out there making
1:19.7	really high quality premium scripted programming.
1:22.7	We should instead try to be good at our own thing.
1:26.2	That's Sam Reich, CEO of Dropout, which used to be college humor.
1:31.3	And with subscribers numbering in the mid hundreds of thousands
1:33.7	dropout is small potatoes compared to the millions that the big streamers have. But
1:39.4	they found their niche, which is unscripted comedy. One of their most popular shows is a Dungeons and Dragons show but the
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