Netflix Is Reportedly Going Big On Video Podcasts For 2026

2026 is seemingly going to beryllium nan twelvemonth that Netflix gets fierce pinch podcasting. We already knew that nan streamer will start licensing video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer successful nan caller year, and according to a caller report, agents astatine starring talent agencies are being sounded retired up of a Q1 push.

Sources person told The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix has sent “dozens of requests" to agents astatine WME, UTA and CAA arsenic it looks to adhd much video podcasts to nan platform. The scheme is that nan institution launches its video podcast offering successful early 2026, by which clip it wants to person a room of shows pinch existing audiences.

This comes aft Bloomberg reported this week that Netflix is besides successful licensing talks pinch iHeartMedia, which is 1 of nan largest podcasts publishers successful nan world and makes shows for illustration Stuff You Should Know and The Breakfast Club. According to Bloomberg’s sources, Netflix wants an exclusivity woody that would mean featured shows would nary longer beryllium uploaded to YouTube. The second is Spotify’s biggest rival successful nan space, and passed one billion monthly progressive podcast viewers astatine nan commencement of 2025.

The Spotify woody Netflix penned past period includes 9 sports podcasts astatine launch, among them The Bill Simmons Podcast and The Zach Lowe Show. Other video podcasts coming to nan streaming work see Serial Killers and The Ringer’s The Rewatchables.