Witness Docs and Atlas Obscura Partner to Release New Daily Travel Podcast, Coming March 15
NEW YORK — March 1st, 2021 — Stitcher’s Witness Docs unit has teamed with the award-winning travel and experiences company Atlas Obscura to launch a new daily podcast that celebrates the world’s strange, incredible, and unexpected places. The Atlas Obscura Podcast launches March 15. A trailer is available HERE.
Atlas Obscura’s mission is to inspire wonder and curiosity about the incredible world we all share. With its new podcast, Atlas Obscura co-founder and host Dylan Thuras will take listeners on an audio quest to discover new and hidden places; perhaps on the other side of the world, or perhaps in one’s own backyard. Once there, listeners will hear stories and history from the incredible people who make these places special.
With each richly produced episode clocking in at under 15 minutes, The Atlas Obscura Podcast will serve as a daily escape at a time when we need it most. Destinations around the globe include The Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan, The National Science Museum of Japan in Tokyo, The Oldest Swimming Pool in Iceland, The Dead Sea Scrolls Ruins in the West Bank — as well as U.S. sights like a Memorial to The First Monkey Sent to Space in Huntsville, AL, National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, MD, Institute of Illegal Images in San Francisco, CA, and Grasshopper Glacier in Park County, MT.
“We’ve all spent much of the last year at home, and I think everyone is eager for a chance to experience a bit more of the world. This podcast is an invitation to travel to some of the world’s most interesting and surprising places, to hear their stories, and meet the people behind them,” said Atlas Obscura Co-Founder Dylan Thuras. “From communist mummies to the living root bridges, the show is an auditory tour of the world’s hidden wonders and the sometimes extraordinary ways they connect to our own lives.”
“The Atlas Obscura Podcast” is produced by Dylan Thuras, Doug Baldinger, Chris Naka, Kameel Stanley, Sarah Wyman, and John DeLore. The theme and end credit music is by Sam Tyndall and the show is mixed by Luz Fleming.
You can listen to the trailer and subscribe to “The Atlas Obscura Podcast” on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major podcast apps.
About Atlas Obscura
Atlas Obscura is an award-winning travel and experiences company that shares the world’s hidden wonders in-person and online. Founded in 2009, Atlas Obscura created the definitive, community-driven online guide to the world’s most fascinating places. Atlas Obscura has a community of millions of global explorers, produces trips and experiences highlighting niche perspectives with leading experts, and has published two New York Times bestselling books with more than a million copies in print. The company has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards, a James Beard Award, three Webby Awards, and named one of Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies in 2020. www.atlasobscura.com
About Stitcher
Stitcher is the best place to listen to, produce and monetize podcasts. The Stitcher app, available for iOS and Android devices, is one of the world’s most popular podcast listening platforms, with a growing network of original content and a premium subscription service. Stitcher is the parent company of Midroll Media, the leading podcast advertising network representing over 200 of the world’s largest podcasts, and networks including top-ranked comedy podcast network Earwolf, Stitcher Originals and Witness Docs. With offices in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco, Stitcher was founded in 2007 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
STITCHER PUBLICITY CONTACT
Ron Gaskill
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ATLAS OBSCURA PUBLICITY CONTACTS
Paul Yadgir
atlasobscura@dkcnews.com
Alexa Harrison
alexa.harrison@atlasobscura.com
