Now Hear This Podcast Festival

Now Hear This Podcast Festival

Midroll Media, organizer of the pioneering Now Hear This podcast festival, presented the second annual festival this year (2017). The hosts of many of today’s most popular podcasts took to the stage for live performances and mingle with fans in meet-and-greet gatherings. Featured shows included “NPR’s Planet Money,” “Lore,” “Larry Wilmore: Black on Air,” “Mortified” and “Terrible, Thanks For Asking.” After successfully launching the event in 2016 in in Anaheim, California, festival organizers moved Now Hear This to Manhattan’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The festival took place Sept. 8-10.

Midroll Media is a leading podcast content company, advertising network and distribution platform that is changing the face of digital audio. It is the parent company of the Earwolf network and its top-ranked comedy podcasts; popular podcast listening platform and content network Stitcher and its premium subscription service; and the Midroll advertising network, representing over 300 of the world’s largest podcasts. With offices in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco, Midroll was founded in 2010 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP).