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      Call Her Daddy: title of a podcast
      Question: what did going on this podcast do for Harris?
      Answer: allowed her to reach young women in middle America that conventional news sources would not.

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        Even if the journalist recommends a better title their editor will just optimize it to be the best clickbait it can be. Ambiguity probably drives clicks due to sheer curiosity.Such is reporting in the digital world.

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        As a 30 year old Midwestern woman, that sounds about right. I know a fair number of women in their 20s who would gladly call vice president Harris “daddy”

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    I had to read the headline like ten damn times. And the description is still undecipherable to me.

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      Agreed. Here’s my unsolicited rewrite

      What Going on Call Her Daddy Did for Kamala Harris | Podcaster Alex Cooper reaches young, female Middle America in a way conventional news cannot.

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        The italics were lost in translation

        What Going on Call Her Daddy Did for Kamala Harris

        Without any indication it’s the title of something it is impossible to know.

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      I misinterpreted the word “shows” as a verb, instead of a noun. The subtitle is still word salad.

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    The only place I’ve heard of the relevance of “Call Her Daddy” has been in this weird, very recent, mainstream media circle jerk.

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      comments here very interesting to me, I don’t listen to hardly any podcasts - maybe a dozen episodes in the last 5 years - and I knew about this podcast.

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      Same. Never heard of it before. I did hear it mentioned on NPR earlier and they said that it’s most popular among young women in the south, so I guess that could be part of it.

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      Less popular than the Hauk-Tuah Talk podcast by the more recent internet celebrity. And it fell off substantially after the Barstool Sports buyout of the pod causes the original hosts to split up.

      Unless you’ve been in the podcasting scene for a while, I can’t say I’m surprised you’d never head of it. The show is dated and its been cloned a thousand times. If Kamala Harris truly wants to influence a large audience of young women viewers, she needs to go on Red Scare or the Adam Friedland Show.

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        No. However, I don’t watch the Joe Rogan podcast either, but I do know about it (its general outlook/ politics). I don’t watch The View, but I do know about it (its general outlook/ politics). I also don’t watch Fox News, but I know about. There are all kinds of things that I’m not the target demographic for, that I do know about. Its totally fair that I’m not the target demo, but like, I’ve literally never heard of this podcast before this news cycle. Ma

        I asked two women in their late 20’s early 30s if they knew about it. Both said no.

        The younger one said she said she only doesn’t and goes on TicToc and Instagram and that podcasts are for boomers (I am not a boomer).

        🤷

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          It’s a top-5 podcast in terms of popularity, and probably literally the most popular podcast among women. It was, for a time, the #2 podcast after Rogan’s.

          Spotify paid $60 million to make Call Her Daddy a Spotify exclusive for 2 years, and last year SiriusXM paid $125 million for the ad/distribution rights for 3 years.

          It’s a heavy hitter in the podcast space, by pretty much every metric.

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              So your market research has been to ask two women who don’t listen to podcasts, and then look at the view counts on a video platform not primarily used for audio podcasts. Real solid methodology there.

              Just, like, look at any of the podcast metrics ranking podcasts by listens or subscribers from the US: #2 on Apple, #5 on Spotify, #4 on Edison’s charts.

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                I gotta agree with the op though - all the noise about podcasts and Spotify trying to control that media was a couple years ago. Who knew it’s still a thing. For myself, I’m just annoyed at Spotify trying to push non-music in my music streaming. My own limited experience includes my teens who wouldn’t be caught listening to “old people stuff”

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                  all the noise about podcasts and Spotify trying to control that media was a couple years ago

                  The $125 million SiriusXM deal to bring it back out of Spotify exclusive was less than 2 months ago.

                  Like, I get if you’re not the target audience, because I’m not either, but it’s strange to try to argue that it isn’t a huge audience or a heavy hitter in the podcasting space.

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      Folks like Brian Taylor Cohen, Cody Johnston, and Dan Toomey all seem to have much wider reach with younger people.

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    By “call her daddy”, do they mean that I am to contact her father, or am I to refer to her as daddy? 🤔

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    I don’t think young, female America is the demographic she should be trying to reach; they already overwhelmingly support her.

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      Have you seen voter turnout for the general population, much less younger demographics?

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      A lot of what campaigns do is try to fire up supporters so that they actually vote. Merely “supporting” without actually casting a ballot doesn’t help.

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