Crowd Community (Crowd), considered one of Europe’s fastest-growing impartial podcast networks, has launched three new prisoners to its podcast For The Love of Rugby, who’re producing a collection for the Guinness Girls’s Six Nations.
Purple Roses Sadia Kabeyla (Loughborough Lightning) and Maud Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury) and retired England participant Shaunagh Brown (Harlequins Girls) are presenting weekly episodes, delving into the event and sharing unique insights from the Purple Roses’ camp.
The strengthened presenter roster is the newest instance of Crowd championing girls’s sports activities, creating female-led content material and dealing with manufacturers to safe genuine, significant partnerships. Crowd additionally works with Chelsea FC Girls’s soccer crew on the We Are Chelsea Podcast. Utilizing content material from the podcast, Chelsea FC Girls’s TikTok’s obtained 50 million views in summer season 2024 — greater than some other girls’s sports activities crew globally.
Sage additionally continues its partnership with For The Love of Rugby, as its official insights associate, offering stay knowledge on the event. The brand new hosts use Sage insights to investigate the video games and make predictions on upcoming matches for his or her viewers. It follows Sage’s partnership with For The Love of Rugby for the Guinness Males’s Six Nations, the place Sage insights shaped the spine of study and facilitated the creation of the “Rugbyverse” — a digital podcast recording studio – in host Ben Youngs’ home.
For the Love of Rugby launched in January 2024 and has since grown its fanbase to grow to be considered one of Crowd’s hottest podcasts, touchdown within the Prime 10 for sports activities podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It just lately featured Bristol Bears participant and social media phenomenon Ilora Maher in a particular episode, and it gained the Gold Award for “Greatest Rugby Podcast” on the fan-voted 2025 Sports activities Podcast Awards.
Full-time hosts Ben Youngs and Dan Cole achieved chart-topping document downloads and greater than 54 million social media views with their protection of the Guinness Males’s Six Nations, and they’re going to undertake a nationwide podcast tour in April and Could.
Louise Gwilliam, Expertise Supervisor at Crowd Community, stated: “2025 is ready to be the most important yr within the historical past of rugby, by no means thoughts girls’s rugby, and we’re so excited to bolster our world-class expertise by welcoming Shaunagh, Sadia, and Maud to the Crowd group. They’re offering our listeners with next-level insights, each from their expertise enjoying on the highest degree and with knowledge from our associate Sage.
As we construct in the direction of the Girls’s World Cup on English soil later this yr, which is already breaking ticket sale information, we would like extra manufacturers to affix us in supporting girls’s sports activities by investing in female-led content material and partnering authentically with feminine athletes.”
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