
“We believe that the left has essentially infiltrated and taken over every major institution in American public life, including most corporations,” he told me. What’s happening with Disney didn’t accelerate his company’s plans, only the announcement of them. The animation and kids’ content giant also intends to produce content with “many, many” LGBTQIA characters, according to Disney’s General Entertainment content president Karey Burke.īoreing, meanwhile, said The Daily Wire had already been planning to go down this road. Not content that they want to want to see.” Fighting “woke media companies”Īlong these same lines, Boreing in recent days announced that The Daily Wire will likewise “invest a minimum of $100 million over the next three years into a line of live-action and animated children’s entertainment on its streaming platform.” Americans, his announcement continued, are “tired of giving their money to woke media companies.” That’s a clear shot at Disney, the leadership of which has not only decided to lobby against Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. What we say internally is we want to make content that people want to see. “What’s important in our entertainment business is that we make entertainment first. “The films are not polemical,” Boreing says. It also releases original movies, like its first title Run Hide Fight - which The Hollywood Reporter described as “slick and compulsively watchable.”Ī Gina Carano-led western from The Daily Wire, called Terror on the Prairie, is coming this summer. In addition to its slate of podcasts (Shapiro’s is regularly one of the Top 10 on Spotify, as well as Apple’s platform), The Daily Wire has a book publishing imprint. And now, for the first time, The Daily Wire has disclosed the size of its paid subscriber base (the 600,000 figure above), which generates money that the company is increasingly investing into content that has nothing to do with news. The company also produces 250 pieces of content (including several dozen written articles) a day.It’s closing in on 200 full-time employees.

The Daily Wire now has a run rate approaching $150 million, annualized.(Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images) Getty Images The Daily Wire, by the numbersĪs for what that company, which Boreing co-founded with co-CEO Caleb Robinson and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, looks like at the moment: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: Ben Shapiro is seen on the set of "Candace" on Apin Nashville.
