TORONTO – SiriusXM and Marvel Entertainment today announced a multi-year agreement where Marvel will create “a substantial amount” of exclusive podcasts for both SiriusXM and its streaming brand Pandora.
The new venture will include both scripted and unscripted series, themed live events, and so on, premiering in 2020. SiriusXM and Pandora (the latter is not available in Canada) will also debut many of Marvel's most popular podcasts before they can be heard anywhere else, says the companies’ press release.
"Powerful stories are read, seen, and heard – and we believe audio is the next natural step to bring the Marvel Universe to fans around the world," said Dan Buckley, president of Marvel Entertainment, in the release.
“We chose Marvel for our first major foray into creating original podcasts, and are thrilled to have Marvel create new audio programming and curate top quality podcasts for SiriusXM and Pandora,” said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's president and chief content officer, in the release. “Under our new creative collaboration with Marvel, we'll now provide our subscribers and listeners and Marvel fans a breadth and depth of podcasts that will be an immersive adventure into the iconic Marvel universe.”
SiriusXM and Marvel launched their first joint initiative in August with an all-new exclusive music station and channel "Marvel's 80th: The Road to Marvel Comics #1000," which was available on SiriusXM for a limited run, as well as through its
