The big business of small streamers

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dropout is a smaller streaming platform where improv comedy is king. It might be the blueprint for the future of streaming. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Further reading: It feels like 2009 on Dropout. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Sam Reich, CEO of Dropout. Photo by Mireya Acierto/FilmMagic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's your favorite streaming service and would you voluntarily pay more for it?
0:04.5	Of course not.
0:05.5	Who'd want to give more money to Warner Brothers or the House of Mouse?
0:09.2	But Dropout's a different story and Dropout is having a moment.
0:12.6	Early this year, one of their shows, Dimension 20, hit the road and sold out Madison Square Garden.
0:17.8	20,000 fans.
0:19.6	If you've ever woken up on another planet or in another dimension, that is truly what it felt
0:24.6	like to be at Madison Square Garden watching Dimension 20 and having no idea what is going on.
0:29.6	Six intrepid heroes, one game master.
0:32.6	With references you have never heard of.
0:34.6	I mean, some people have heard of them.
0:36.6	And it's an extremely young audience, a queer audience, lots of people dressed up, and just
0:42.6	a bunch of really earnest people, very genuinely excited to cheer these people, no matter
0:48.3	what they did, just playing a game on the floor, Manus Square Garden.
0:53.0	Gauntlet at the Garden.
0:55.1	The big business of small streamers
0:56.9	on Today Explained.
1:00.5	Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer
1:05.4	of renewable energy.
1:07.7	Feeling full and more of our energy
1:10.1	comes from windform like this one.
1:14.3	Guys, what happened to recording that a solar bomb?
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