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‘The Pivot’ Takes Its Talents to Netflix in Multi-Year Deal Weeks After Ryan Clark’s ESPN Exit
Ryan Clark did not stay down for long. On August 31, Netflix and The Pivot announced a multi-year partnership that brings the hit sports and culture podcast to the streamer, capping a whirlwind summer for the former NFL safety, who was let go by ESPN in July after 11 years at the network.
Under the deal, new video episodes of The Pivot will stream exclusively on Netflix every Tuesday and Friday beginning September 8, while the show’s library of episodes also lands on the platform. The back catalog will remain on YouTube, where Clark, Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor have built one of the biggest audiences in sports media since launching the show in 2022 — more than 500 episodes and nearly a billion views across YouTube and social platforms.
The agreement reaches beyond the podcast itself. Netflix secured first-negotiation rights on new projects from Pivot25 Productions, the company Clark co-founded with Alicia Zubikowski, and Pivot25 will produce bonus episodes exclusively for the streamer. It is the latest in a string of podcast licensing moves by Netflix, which has also cut deals with Barstool Sports, The Ringer and iHeartMedia this year.
For Clark, the announcement carried a clear message about how he is processing the ESPN chapter. “I’ve gained a new perspective: passion over platform, and people over perception,” he said. “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 momentum has not slowed since the announcement. Pivot25 has since launched “The Pivot Sports,” a live show that debuted September 14, and the company added Starbucks founder Howard Schultz as an investor — signs that Clark is building a media company, not just a podcast, on the other side of his ESPN exit.
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A new monthly conversation series is making room for the stories people are rarely asked to tell in full. “This Is Our Story,” hosted by Seth Pinnock — founder of the UK charity Symphony Co. — launched October 20 from Symphony Co. and In Details Studios, exploring culture, faith, sexuality, identity and the life-shaping stories in between.
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Porter’s reflections anchor the episode. “Forgiveness is for me,” he says in the conversation. “It’s not forgive and forget. It’s forgive and move forward.” It is the kind of unguarded exchange the series is built to hold — personal history examined without spectacle, by a host whose own work through Symphony Co. centers community and young people’s stories.
As a monthly series, “This Is Our Story” is positioned as a slow conversation in a fast medium: one guest, one story, and the space to tell it properly. With Porter as its first voice, it opens with a story that moves from the church pews of Pittsburgh to the highest stages in entertainment — and finds healing, not bitterness, at the center of it.
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