Polymarket launched the company’s first podcast on Friday. The weekly show is called “What Are the Odds?” and will look at pop culture broadly—from celebrity news to award shows and movies—informed by how people are betting on all of them through prediction markets. The show is being positioned as something that will highlight what’s called the “information market” from the perspective of entertainment in a fresh way, aiming to differentiate itself from the more staid and traditional financial media landscape. The show will feature rotating hosts, according to Variety, including Jackie Oshry from “The Toast”, Taylor Strecker from “Taste of Taylor”, Amanda Hirsch from “Not Skinny But Not Fat,” and Heather McMahan from “Absolutely Not.” All of those shows are currently distributed by Dear Media, which is Polymarket’s partner in “What Are the Odds?”
Josh Tucker, Polymarket’s head of creative marketing, told Variety, “As the world’s largest information market, Polymarket reveals what the world thinks will happen next and ‘What Are the Odds?’ turns that real-time read into conversations led by some of the most beloved voices in podcasting. Our partnership with Dear Media marks a new chapter in how prediction markets capture the pulse of culture around the world.”
