{"id":2467162,"date":"2026-06-19T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2467162"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:07:03","slug":"polymarket-launches-its-first-entertainment-podcast-what-are-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/polymarket-launches-its-first-entertainment-podcast-what-are-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket Launches Its First Entertainment Podcast: ‘What Are the Odds?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Polymarket launched the company\u2019s first podcast on Friday. The weekly show is called \u201cWhat Are the Odds?\u201d and will look at pop culture broadly\u2014from celebrity news to award shows and movies\u2014informed by how people are betting on all of them through prediction markets.<\/p>\n

The show is being positioned as something that will highlight what\u2019s called the \u201cinformation market\u201d from the perspective of entertainment in a fresh way, aiming to differentiate itself from the more staid and traditional financial media landscape.<\/p>\n

The show will feature rotating hosts, according to Variety<\/a>, including Jackie Oshry from \u201cThe Toast<\/a>\u201d, Taylor Strecker from \u201cTaste of Taylor<\/a>\u201d, Amanda Hirsch from \u201cNot Skinny But Not Fat<\/a>,\u201d and Heather McMahan from \u201cAbsolutely Not<\/a>.\u201d All of those shows are currently distributed by Dear Media, which is Polymarket\u2019s partner in \u201cWhat Are the Odds?\u201d<\/p>\n

Josh Tucker, Polymarket\u2019s head of creative marketing, told Variety, \u201cAs the world\u2019s largest information market, Polymarket reveals what the world thinks will happen next and \u2018What Are the Odds?\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

It makes a lot of sense for prediction markets to seek to expand interest in celebrity news and bets. Contracts on both Kalshi and Polymarket have been dominated by other topics over the past year, according to Pew Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Far and away the most popular topic is sports, which makes up 80% of trading volume on Kalshi and 39% on Polymarket since July 2024, per Pew\u2019s analysis. Cryptocurrency bets also rank highly, with 7% of total volume on Kalshi and 20% of total volume on Polymarket, Pew reports. Politics has made up 4% of volume on Kalshi in the past year and 32% on Polymarket.<\/p>\n

If you do some quick math, that means 91% of Polymarket\u2019s volume has involved bets on sports, crypto, and politics. And while we don\u2019t have the data for exactly what the other 9% might be covering, it would make sense for the company to try and grow the pop culture segment of its business, especially given the crowded field in sports gambling and growing regulatory scrutiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hosts don\u2019t just cover pop culture\u2014they help shape it,\u201d Dear Media founder and CEO Michael Bosstick told Variety.<\/p>\n

\u201cPop culture moves fast, and partnering with Polymarket gives our hosts a new way to engage with the stories and conversations capturing people\u2019s attention. \u2018What Are the Odds?\u2019 leverages the platform in a way that\u2019s uniquely Dear Media, with hosts reacting in real time to what people are predicting and sharing their unfiltered takes along the way. The show creates a compelling new way to engage audiences, bringing a fresh perspective to the stories people can\u2019t stop talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source gizmodo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polymarket launched the company\u2019s first podcast on Friday. The weekly show is called \u201cWhat Are the Odds?\u201d and will look at pop culture broadly\u2014from celebrity news to award shows and movies\u2014informed by how people are betting on all of them through prediction markets. The show is being positioned as something that will highlight what\u2019s called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2467163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[35206,385265,441305],"class_list":["post-2467162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-gambling","tag-kalshi","tag-polymarket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Polymarket-Launches-Its-First-Entertainment-Podcast-What-Are-the-Odds.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467164,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467162\/revisions\/2467164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}