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It’s historic! Since 1 June, The Breakfast Club, iHeartMedia WWPR-FM Power 105.1’s hip-hop morning show, has been broadcast live and simultaneously on Netflix worldwide, every weekday morning for almost three hours. It is the first live daily broadcast in the platform’s history.
The story began in January 2026: the full video replay episodes of The Breakfast Club left YouTube to become a Netflix exclusive, as part of a global agreement between iHeartMedia and the platform. A huge success! The podcast alone accounted for 40% of all podcast views on Netflix, with 3 times more viewers than the second title in the catalogue.
Radio is keeping its commercial breaks and music. Meanwhile, Netflix replaces them with a studio video with background music. iHeartMedia retains audio distribution and audio syndication in the 90 US markets also continues.
Netflix, which is being pushed around by YouTube, TikTok and other platforms, wants to establish a daily viewing habit on a platform designed for binge watching.
It’s on Netflix every day at midday GMT.
Jarvis Cocker, frontman of Pulp, is about to lull listeners to sleep with a special episode of The Sleeping Forecast, a wordplay on the BBC’s iconic Shipping Forecast. The programme will air on BBC Radio 6 Music on 26 October and is already available on BBC Sounds. A poetic twist on the legendary marine weather…
TikTok and iHeartMedia have just announced a major multi-platform partnership. Together, the two companies will launch a complete ecosystem combining filmed podcasts, radio, video studios and live events. The agreement marks a strategic turning point: TikTok creators will become voices and storytellers at events, on radio and in podcasts. The “TikTok Podcast Network”: 25 new…
Long perceived as the soft-spoken voice of the British establishment, BBC Radio 4 has been quietly but deliberately shifting its strategy over the past few years. Across Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and, more recently, TikTok, the station is now multiplying short formats, humorous clips and debate extracts to reach a younger, more mobile audience. Within the…
In the latest Social Radio newsletter , which analyses the best-performing content from 32 European radio stations, RTL and France Inter broke records for the most views with content that’s very simple to create: clipping their interviews. I explain why you absolutely must do this to maximise the visibility of your station and show off…
As they do every Christmas, radio stations are adapting their schedules to reflect the season: gastronomy, gift ideas, music, special guests, etc. This year, for example, french radio RTL offered daily 30-minute programmes to Mika and Louane. For its part, France Inter has chosen to entrust a daily Music & Co segment to Clara Luciani,…
Faced with TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, the streaming giant is redesigning its mobile application with vertical videos and video podcasts to encourage daily engagement. At its quarterly results presentation on Tuesday, the company announced a major overhaul of its mobile application, which will borrow heavily from the codes of social networks to appeal to users…