patiently waiting for you to wake up because i value your opinion when it comes to criticising studio 71
hiii very sorry this sat in my ask box for two weeks but I appreciate this bc yes I do have thoughts surrounding studio71 in general and the fact that they can't do their damn job 😭
like quite frankly the fact that they essentially have one job—publishing the podcast—means that they should uhh ensure that happens? tbh, I don't even know why it publishes at midnight California time where studio71 is based. if there is a chance that something will go awry when posting it then they should post it during normal working hours when ppl in CA are awake lmao. the ppl signed to you should not have to wait 7 hours to get a hold of someone and get their podcast posted. and I feel bad for d&p that they just had to be like "yeah sorry we don't know what's going on"
but honestly, this whole partnership with studio71 is just mind boggling. it's ridiculous that d&p are signed with the US-based branch of a European company (the parent company is based out of Germany), and it's especially a waste because dan and phil are taking advantage of basically none of what studio71 offers to podcast creators. they aren't taking advantage of the studio (obviously bc the studio is in Burbank), d&p have their own editor/producer/etc, and I'm confident that they're the ones posting the video version of the podcast to their YouTube channel. so what is studio71 doing for them? posting the podcast and taking care of the ads. and they can't even post the podcast correctly 💀 the ad thing is interesting too. phil tweeted that the ads are random and they had no control over what ads run on the podcast (in reference to the Google AI ad), but that isn't necessarily the case and studio71 claim they take care of the ads which would mean it's NOT random ads. so either phil was trying to save face and/or studio71 is saying their hands are tied when it comes to ads when they aren't. and if their hands were tied, then literally what are they doing for d&p? nothing. dan and phil can figure out how to post a podcast to Spotify if they needed to
the ad thing can get into a deeper conversation so I'll get off that soapbox lmao. anyway, from what I can figure, the reason why d&p are signed with studio71 is because their management wanted to have a "cross continent" podcast (their IT manager said about as much on LinkedIn, as did one of the managers from UTA which is the US-based agency that only dan is signed to) and that kind of sucks because I think there's little benefit to d&p directly for being signed with studio71. I'm sure there are other podcast networks out there that would more closely suit d&p's apparent want to have everything related to the pod in their control as much as possible
also, studio71 + UTA + another management company literally have a joint podcast network specifically for LGBTQ creators. at the very least should not dan and phil be on that network like 💀 (some of the people w/ podcasts in that network aren't signed to UTA or the 2nd management company, so that wouldn't be the reason they aren't on it, espc when dan at least is signed to UTA!)
