Netflix has hired Steve Wilson to head its podcast expansion, Variety has confirmed.
\n\nWilson will lead the company’s podcast content acquisitions on a contract basis. Before heading to Netflix, Wilson spent 15 years at Apple, where he most recently headed marketing for Apple Podcasts and partnered with podcasters and networks. He left Apple in December 2020, and spent nearly six years at podcast studio QCode as chief strategy officer before joining Daylight Media in the same position.
\n\nAs reported in September, Netflix now offers more than 60 video podcasts on its service, and has continued to lean into expanding its catalog. The streamer’s original lineup of video podcasts currently includes true-crime show “Murder With My Husband”; talk show “The Pete Davidson Show” hosted by the “Saturday Night Live” alum; pop-culture interview show “Shut Up Evan” hosted by Evan Ross Katz; “The Puzzle Room With David Kwong”; and “Allegedly,” a true-crime podcast from NBC News correspondent Ellison Barber.
\n\nWilson joins Netflix at a tumultuous time, two weeks after the company announced layoffs of 6% of employees, equating to about 1,000 jobs. The cut was the biggest to date, and primarily affected workers in Netflix’s product, technology, legal and HR teams, according…
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