Realm has 25 employees based in New York and L.A. In addition, Realm has several projects in development for film and TV.īarton, a former Penguin Random House executive, said the company’s primary competitors are Amazon’s Wondery, Spotify’s Gimlet and QCode. While most of Realm’s audio series will continue to be originals, this year the company will expand its array of partners to enter into co-productions, Barton said. Navy officer tries to uncover the truth behind why his former ship vanished in the Bermuda Triangle, created and written by Dan Koboldt.įor now, Realm is using the ad inventory in the shows distributed as free podcasts to cross-promote its other shows. “Machina,” about two rival tech companies competing for the chance to bring AI to Mars, created and written by Fran Wilde and “Ctrl-Alt-Destroy,” in which a video game designer discovers that the game she created has been stolen as part of a top-secret project, narrated by “Firefly” star Summer Glau “Gods & Lies,” a fantasy murder-mystery created and written by Elizabeth Vail “Memory Lane,” a sci-fi drama written by Sara Shepard (“Pretty Little Liars”) “Beatrix Greene,” a horror series set in Victorian England written by writer Rachel Hawkins “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter,” written by Malka Older, which picks up the Clone Club story eight years after the end of the TV series Subscribers are promised ad-free, early access to Realm originals, bonus content, and access to the company’s Flow Reader (which provides text synced up with audio). The company is now selling an “unlimited” subscription ($3.99 per month or $29.99 per year) to listen to its originals on the web (at realm.fm) and the Realm apps. Realm will continue to collaborate with name-brand writers and voice talent, including George Takei, William Jackson Harper, John Carpenter and Tatiana Maslany, who narrates “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter,” a continuation of the storyline from the TV show she starred in - and which is one of the first audio series the company is distributing for free. With the expansion to free podcasts, Barton hopes to attract more fans to Realm’s programming lineup. To date, Serial Box has had 1.3 million listeners worldwide for its 1,000-plus hours of wholly owned premium audio content across more than 60 series. “We are coming to the podcast ecosystem with some unique advantages.” “It’s a major change in the revenue model,” Molly Barton, co-founder and CEO, said in an interview.
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