Multi award-winning premium podcast production company Novel has closed its Series A round, securing a £5 million investment from growth capital investor Vgc Partners.
Founded in 2019 by Sean Glynn and co-owned with Max O'Brien (Chief Content Officer) and Matt O'Mara (Managing Director), Novel has grown rapidly to become the biggest independent podcast company in Europe.
Specialising in cinematic longform narrative series and investigative journalism, Novel has strategically positioned itself to capitalise on the global boom in podcasting. The number of podcast listeners worldwide has rocketed from 274.8 million when the company launched in 2019, and is predicted to nearly double to 504.9 million by the end of 2024 (eMarketer 2021). All indications point to the continuation of this prodigious growth.
Novel stands out as the clear industry leader in audio, having struck UK-first deals with the world’s leading podcasting networks including iHeartRadio, Wondery and Gimlet, while also producing series for the BBC, The Financial Times,...
Founded in 2019 by Sean Glynn and co-owned with Max O'Brien (Chief Content Officer) and Matt O'Mara (Managing Director), Novel has grown rapidly to become the biggest independent podcast company in Europe.
Specialising in cinematic longform narrative series and investigative journalism, Novel has strategically positioned itself to capitalise on the global boom in podcasting. The number of podcast listeners worldwide has rocketed from 274.8 million when the company launched in 2019, and is predicted to nearly double to 504.9 million by the end of 2024 (eMarketer 2021). All indications point to the continuation of this prodigious growth.
Novel stands out as the clear industry leader in audio, having struck UK-first deals with the world’s leading podcasting networks including iHeartRadio, Wondery and Gimlet, while also producing series for the BBC, The Financial Times,...
- 2/1/2023
- Podnews.net
Novel, the UK-based studio that has become Europe’s largest independent podcast producer on the back of a host of acclaimed, award-winning and globally chart-topping podcasts made for partners including Wondery, iHeart, Spotify, Amazon, the BBC and more, announces the hiring of Neil Krishnan as their new Head of TV and Film. Krishnan joins from his role as Director of Creative Acquisitions for Universal Studio Group, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies.
Krishnan brings a keen eye for exceptional stories and the creative vision necessary to shepherd the company’s slate of audio projects into the Hollywood landscape. As Director of Creative Acquisitions for Universal Studio Group, he was instrumental in finding and landing undeniable IP across NBCUniversal’s four television studios and approximately 200 talent deals, and was a key player in closing several competitive IP projects across books, graphic novels and podcasts.
Previously, Krishnan worked...
Krishnan brings a keen eye for exceptional stories and the creative vision necessary to shepherd the company’s slate of audio projects into the Hollywood landscape. As Director of Creative Acquisitions for Universal Studio Group, he was instrumental in finding and landing undeniable IP across NBCUniversal’s four television studios and approximately 200 talent deals, and was a key player in closing several competitive IP projects across books, graphic novels and podcasts.
Previously, Krishnan worked...
- 10/5/2022
- Podnews.net
Lucy Mangan on the people hitting the headlines in the past seven days
Taking liberties
Tony Blair
Turns out the attorney general warned him that going to war with Iraq would be illegal. Several times. But really – what do lawyers know? He lived with one, he was one – he knows what they're like. Anyway, things change. Not facts or anything but ... things. And eventually Lord Goldsmith came round to his way of thinking – sort of – and popped a more helpful note through the door of No 10 suggesting that what Mr B wanted and had just promised George W would be Ok after all.
And that was surely right. Why else would our Tone have received this week the 2010 Liberty Award (lovely medal, plus 70 grand to stick in the account) in the Us for "significantly furthering the expansion of freedom, self-governance, equality and peaceful coexistence" in the world. Really, it's enough to move you to tears,...
Taking liberties
Tony Blair
Turns out the attorney general warned him that going to war with Iraq would be illegal. Several times. But really – what do lawyers know? He lived with one, he was one – he knows what they're like. Anyway, things change. Not facts or anything but ... things. And eventually Lord Goldsmith came round to his way of thinking – sort of – and popped a more helpful note through the door of No 10 suggesting that what Mr B wanted and had just promised George W would be Ok after all.
And that was surely right. Why else would our Tone have received this week the 2010 Liberty Award (lovely medal, plus 70 grand to stick in the account) in the Us for "significantly furthering the expansion of freedom, self-governance, equality and peaceful coexistence" in the world. Really, it's enough to move you to tears,...
- 7/2/2010
- by Lucy Mangan
- The Guardian - Film News
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