The Year of Peacock?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by the president of Peacock, Kelly Campbell, to discuss Peacock’s unique place in the streaming universe, how live sports supercharged its growth, and how it plans to improve its coverage of the Olympics as their exclusive digital home. They also discuss how gaining NBA rights could affect Peacock’s content output and whether a joint venture with Paramount Plus or Max could ever work. Matt finishes the show with a prediction about ESPN’s over-the-top service after Disney’s latest earnings call. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click this link: puck.news/thetown Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Kelly Campbell Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.0	slash marketers. It is Wednesday, May 8th. There's a lot of reasons why Peacock has never really been taken as seriously as some of the others in the streaming wars.
1:31.2	The content offering wasn't great when it launched in 2020. Its owner NBC Universal has a parent company in Comcast that is very invested in the cable bundle.
1:41.4	It's US only, and it really had trouble generating an audience for much of
1:45.1	anything for years. But slowly, the Peacock offering has gotten a lot better, and the financial
1:50.6	metrics are catching up. Comcast recently revealed they're now at 34 million paying subscribers.
1:56.4	That's way up over the last year, and a gain of three million subs last quarter, thanks in part to that
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