New thread for The Karl Stefanovic Show podcast.
âHeâs a machineâ: Karl Stefanovic Show co-founder on scaling and making money
One of the challenges facing Stefanovic and his podcast co-founder Keshnee Kemp has been how to maintain and then build on the initial momentum.
The more than 250 videos released so far (50 full-length episodes plus an average of five short cut-downs promoting each episode) delivered 1,383,000 views on Youtube in April. The audio numbers for the month from Spotify were 859,000.
Going global is one of the ways podcasters are growing audiences and Stefanovic and Kemp are exploring that too. The founders visited Los Angeles earlier this year for a number of interviews.
Kemp visited London last week where she scoped out possible interviews for the show when it visits London later in the year. Stefanovic will take leave from Nineâs Today Show for the trip.
What is the business set up for the show?
The podcast is just Karl and me, and itâs independent of my agency.
We plug in great talent to help us produce it, but he and I are full time working as many hours as we can put into it.
We do a lot of the work ourselves, but weâve got a cameraman we hire whoâs meant to be freelance, but weâre shooting so often itâs pretty much full time for him.
We get a little bit of help editing. I edit a lot of the stuff myself as well, because we have a vision of what we want it to be, so it makes sense to keep it fairly close. We will continue like that until we canât do that anymore, which is getting close to be honest.
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NEC are skating on thin ice if they take action against Karl for posting his Tommy Robinson video on YouTube:
YouTube de-platformed the interview but Pauline resurrected it.
Pandering to the vocal left will just lead NEC to the same fate that awaits the ABC. Even if you donât agree with the views expressed in the interview, de-platforming is just another attack on Australiaâs poor free speech environment.
Very few of NECâs advertisers will be radical left people if NEC want to poke the bear.
Do you know who this man is? More than the left or radical left are against this Nazi criminal. When 9 hopefully sacks him Stefanovic can join his brother on Sky.
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I saw someone suggest recently that Karl is using the podcast to force Nine to release him from his contract. I didnât think much of it at the time, but maybe there is something to it.
That said, Iâm not sure we need to give Tommy Robinson any platform
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Shame Nine doesnât own 2GB anymore, could have easily moved him onto that network and he couldâve been John Laws-liteâŚwouldnât have to change his views one bit. 
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NECâs management of Nine Radio has yet again showed that being good at TV doesnât automatically make you good at radio. It will be interesting to see how Karl goes at ARN too.
They donât like competition, so I doubt it.
Heâll be well aware that podcasting gives him freedom that being on âregulatedâ airwaves (radio and/or TV) wont give him. If he sticks around at Nine, it will be interesting to see if he develops an alternate persona, TV Karl vs Podcast Karl.
From what Iâve heard of it so far, heâs at best riding shotgun to Eddie.
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Well this comes as no surprise
What do you get for the woman who has everything, like the nationâs richest person, Gina Rinehart? Why, youâre very own Karl Stefanovic Show, of course.
Diary can reveal the iron ore queen has almost certainly been helping fund Stefanovicâs indy, online podcast for months after bonding over their shared love of flame-haired firebrand Pauline Hanson, her top of the pops party, One Nation, and cowboy hats.
Disappointingly, the multi-billionaire politely declined to comment when we hit her about it last week and asked whether she would like to discuss her ongoing financial arrangements with King Karlos. Still, our sources insist she is definitely involved (though to what extent remains unclear).
I feel like this does not deserve a thread.
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What do you get a newspaper journalist and editor who doesnât know youâre means you are.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DaPFnKdoMys/
Credit to The Daily Telegraphâs IG page
Oh dear god. Their giant ego powered heads wonât fit in the same room together.
Apparently unencumbered by a traditional gag order, a tearaway Karl Stefanovic has â not for the first time this week â embarrassed Nine media bosses who in 2019 reversed a decision to sack him from the Today show before gormlessly enticing him back with $20 million in contracts. Not for the first time, Stefanovic has bitten the hand that feeds him.
McGuire, who had teased his forthcoming chat with the dumped breakfast show host on the newly launched ARN radio show, was also thrown under the bus by the actions of his so-called âclosest (industry) mateâ. Just days earlier McGuire had promoted his interview with Stefanovic saying: âNext week (Karl) will speak to me exclusively on The Long Weekend about the most tumultuous few days of his career.â Instead Stefanovic turned to international human headline (Piers) Morgan, snubbing McGuire.
The decision to reinstate him in 2020 after sacking him a year earlier has been an expensive one and has delayed the breakfast show appointing and grooming a new anchor who might have helped the program turn the ratings tide on top-rating TV breakfast show Sunrise following the retirement of its popular longtime host David Koch in 2023.
Hmmm,James Ashby might get along with Karl very well, if so the commercial sensibilities are obvious.
Why is this person being given publicity on here. I made a tongue in cheek comment about him and Kyle which someone apparently found offensive and it was removed. IMO this whole thread needs to go!
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Here we go