The Pivot, the popular interview show hosted by former NFL athletes Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor, is taking its talents to Netflix.
The two sides struck a multi-year partnership that will bring video episodes of the show to the platform starting Sept. 8, according to Boardroom. New episodes will stream exclusively on Netflix every Tuesday and Friday, and the show’s back catalog will also live there, while continuing to run on YouTube as it always has.
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Netflix is also getting first-look rights on new content from Pivot25 Productions, the company Ryan Clark co-founded with Alicia Zubikowski, and Pivot25 will produce Netflix-exclusive bonus episodes as part of the arrangement.
“I’ve gained a new perspective: passion over platform, and people over perception,” Clark, who was laid off by ESPN earlier this summer, said in a statement. “I’m grateful and excited to take [The Pivot] to Netflix. This is the beginning of a beautiful new chapter … The story is far from finished.”
The Pivot has been an independent production since January 2025, when it parted ways with Fanatics less than a year into what Clark had called a “multiyear, exclusive partnership.” Front Office Sports reported at the time that the split was mutual, with both sides deciding The Pivot would be better off as an independent platform. Zubikowski, the show’s executive producer and Clark’s Pivot25 co-founder, said afterward the two sides had “some good moments” but that The Pivot was looking forward to “continuing doing what has made Pivot the impactful platform it is today.”
This is Netflix’s latest addition to a video podcast library that’s grown quickly over the past year but hasn’t necessarily grown in influence. Netflix struck deals with Spotify Studios and The Ringer in October to carry video versions of shows like The Bill Simmons Podcast and The Zach Lowe Show, followed by an eight-figure annual deal with Barstool Sports in December for Pardon My Take, Spittin’ Chiclets, and The Ryen Russillo Show, along with a separate arrangement with iHeartMedia. Despite the expansion, Puck’s Matthew Belloni reported in June that no video podcast has cracked Nielsen’s weekly top 10, a chart Netflix otherwise tends to dominate, and that engagement numbers for the category “are low” according to multiple sources inside the company.
Pardon My Take’s Dan “Big Cat” Katz spoke to that uncertainty back in April, when PMT was still among the first shows testing out Netflix’s podcast push.
“We were kind of the tip of the spear for them. Which, that’s a little scary,” Katz said. “Because there’s a little bit of tension where people are like, ‘Well, I’m not going to watch podcasts on Netflix.’ I get it. I think where we’re going to end up in a couple of years, it’s going to be very commonplace for people to consume their podcasts on Netflix.”
The Pivot is now the latest sports podcast betting that Netflix’s audience will eventually catch up to its ambitions.
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