FOX ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES INNOVATIVE AUDIO DRAMA STORYTELLER “MEET CUTE”
POPULAR SCRIPTED PODCAST PLATFORM EXPANDS
FOX’S MULTI-PLATFORM CONTENT STRATEGY, WHILE DEEPENING
CREATOR INCUBATOR ECOSYSTEM AND CONSUMER REACH
Acquisition to Support Content Pipeline for FOX’s Recent Holywater
Vertical Video Investment and HarperCollins Reciprocal First-Look Deal
Los Angeles, CA – November 4, 2025 – FOX Entertainment today announced the acquisition of Meet Cute, the popular audio drama platform. The move further accelerates FOX Entertainment’s long-term, platform-agnostic content strategy and expands its creator-driven entertainment ecosystem, combining technology, storytelling, and innovation to reach audiences wherever they are.
“Innovation in digital storytelling is shaping the future of entertainment, and with Meet Cute, we’re building a space where creators can move fast, take risks, and shape what’s next,” said Hannah Pillemer, Head of Scripted at FOX Entertainment Studios, who oversees Meet Cute. “It’s a creative lab for storytelling – developing and testing new voices and IP in real time and connecting bold emotionally resonant stories to audiences everywhere.”
Known for its quick-to-market, trend-driven approach, Meet Cute’s cinematic audio storytelling style has resonated with a growing audience of podcast fans everywhere. The platform’s agile, cost-efficient production model makes it a valuable collaboration tool for FOX Entertainment Studios as it widens its storytelling reach, including recent announcements such as its innovative reciprocal first-look deal with HarperCollins Publishers and its investment in Holywater, a global leader in the exploding vertical video market. This creates a three-pronged ecosystem where IP can originate from any format – books, audio, or digital – and evolve seamlessly across media, while shortening traditional development cycles and allowing the studio to make data-informed decisions on what to scale into series, films, or multi-platform franchises.
The Meet Cute acquisition is another step in advancing FOX Entertainment’s broader, long-term tech growth strategy and shaping its forward-looking model as a modern, next-gen entertainment studio. By embracing proven digital entertainment innovators who are successfully harnessing the power of technological advancement and AI, the studio boosts its ability to develop content on the viewer’s terms – globally, platform-agnostic, and talent-first.
Founded in 2019 by Naomi Shah with investment from Union Square Ventures and Lerer Hippeau, Meet Cute quickly became a leading destination for high-quality, bite-sized scripted audio storytelling. The platform has released more than 200 hours of original programming, reaching over 2.5 million listeners globally. As part of FOX Entertainment, it will serve as a rapid-development content incubator, producing premium scripted and soon-to-launch unscripted series. Shah has joined FOX Entertainment as Senior Vice President, Operations & Strategy, where she will focus on AI innovation, entertainment technology, and IP expansion.
“From day one, Meet Cute’s mission was to build stories at the speed of culture,” said Shah. “Joining FOX Entertainment allows us to scale that vision – giving creators a faster path from idea to audience, integrating real-time audience feedback, and bringing new voices and formats to life across FOX’s global platforms.”
About FOX Entertainment
With a legacy spanning nearly 40 years, FOX Entertainment is one of the world’s most recognizable media brands and a prolific content producer across its iconic broadcast network and both owned and third-party platforms worldwide. Known for its independent, innovative spirit and provocative, groundbreaking storytelling, the company includes three key business units: FOX Television Network, FOX Entertainment Studios and worldwide content sales and licensing unit FOX Entertainment Global.
While maintaining its leadership in linear television with an exceptional slate of original series – including Doc, Extracted, Memory of a Killer, The Masked Singer, The Floor, The Simpsons, Animal Control, Going Dutch, Murder in a Small Town, Hell’s Kitchen and LEGO Masters – FOX Entertainment is growing its portfolio of studio engines, business operations and library of owned original content.
To date, the FOX Entertainment Studios division includes its in-house unscripted studio with hits The Masked Singer, I Can See Your Voice and Name That Tune, and scripted content studio featuring comedies Animal Control and Going Dutch and signature drama series Best Medicine, The Faithful, The Way Home and The Chicken Sisters. The unit also oversees the award-winning animation studio Bento Box Entertainment with animated comedies including Krapopolis, Grimsburg, Hazbin Hotel and Universal Basic Guys; entertainment platform TMZ with its tentpole primetime series TMZ Investigates; its new independent film label Tideline Entertainment with inaugural releases including First Time Female Director, Ponyboi and Slanted; and the culinary and lifestyle content venture Studio Ramsay Global in partnership with iconic chef Gordon Ramsay, featuring food-themed original series on FOX such as Next Level Chef, Kitchen Nightmares and Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service, as well as the new next-gen global food brand and entertainment platform Bite, No Taste Like Home on Disney+, Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars coming this fall on Apple+ and a new untitled Gordon Ramsay documentary series on Netflix in early 2026.
As a global content creator and production partner, FOX Entertainment Studios collaborates with studios and platforms worldwide, including Disney, Hulu, Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony Pictures Television, Prime Video, Netflix, Apple+, Hallmark, Lifetime, TelevisaUnivision, UK’s Channel 4, France’s TF1, German’s ProSieben, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia’s Foxtel and FOX-owned streamer Tubi, among others.
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