Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce signed a new contract for their New Heights podcast with Amazon’s Wondery. The deal will run for three years and is worth over $100 million.
“We couldn’t be more excited to team up with Wondery for the next phase of New Heights,” the Kelce brothers said in a statement on Aug. 27, per Variety. “We love this show and the fanbase that has grown with us over the last two seasons. Wondery understands the shared vision and will offer a wealth of experience and resources to take us to ‘New Heights!’”
The football players continued, nodding toward their show’s third season, which will kick off around the start of the NFL season.
“We are going to create some groundbreaking moments together through this partnership,” the brothers added. “We are thrilled to start Season 3—see you soon, 92%ers!”
The podcast featuring Travis and Jason which first premiered in 2022 and details their experiences as NFL players on and off the field—will continue to be available on various platforms. However, Wondery will hold exclusive distribution rights starting Aug. 28.
The show’s backlogged content will be moved under the umbrella of Wondery, with the company also being given the rights to create international audio adaptations of the show.
The deal will include ad-free listening to users who subscribe to Wondery+, as well as the rights to create new merchandise for the podcast. In a statement to Variety, Wondery CEO Jen Sargent lauded New Heights as a “well-listened” sports podcast, as well as a “cultural phenomenon.
Indeed, New Heights gained a heap of new listeners last July, when Travis used an episode to shoot his shot with now-girlfriend Taylor Swift after she turned down meeting him at a Kansas City Eras Tours show
“I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,” he explained on a July 2023 episode. “I was a little butt-hurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.”
The Kansas City chief player went on to tell his brother, a former Philadelphia Eagles center, that he’d planned to give Taylor his phone number through the gesture. And while the concert meet-cute didn’t go in his favor, it did start a chain reaction of counter moves for getting him in touch with the “Karma” singer.
“This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Taylor told Time in December 2023. “We started hanging out right after that.”
Ever since Travis and Jason’s podcast has been a trusted source for Swifties during the couple’s year-long relationship, but Travis has made it clear he can only reveal so much to the 92 percenters.
“What’s real is that it is my personal life and I want to respect both of our lives,” he said after he and Taylor made their relationship debut last September. “She’s not in the media as much as I am doing this show every single week and having fun during the NFL season on other guys’ shows. Everything moving forward, I think me talking about sports and saying ‘Alright nah’ will have to be where I keep it.”
