Ashley Carman

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Little scoop for the Ringer fans: Bill Simmons ended his ChatGPT sponsorship after backlash from fans. His colleagues Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins also previously spoke out about their dislike of the promotions in clips that went viral

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Story time: Ashley Flowers hosts the No. 2 podcast in the US, just after Joe Rogan. Crime Junkie started as a phone call between her and her bestie Brit Prawat in 2017. By 2019, it was already a top five show.

Then, Ashley moved into the empire-building stage of her career

scoop: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

scoop: @sircalebhammer, the dave-ramsey-meets-jerry-springer youtuber, is close to signing an eight-figure deal with fox's red seat ventures.

it took him ~six years to build his channel with over 3 million subs and one of the most popular paid subscription offerings