Announcing The Next Season Of The Land of the Giants Podcast In The Fall: Dating Apps

 In its upcoming season, premiering Fall 2022, award-winning podcast Land of the Giants is taking listeners through seven  episodes on the history and evolution of dating apps. 

From the paradox of choice to the addictive nature or swiping, the podcast will dive deep into how dating apps have transformed our intimate lives. In addition to the full-length episodes, the series will include 7 mini-episodes telling the real life stories of various app matchups

Land of the Giants is a narrative podcast about the five technology giants — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, or FAANG — and how they dominate our lives in ways we often do not fully comprehend.  

  In the last few years, we’ve all discovered that enormous tech companies regularly decide how we communicate, how we interact with the world around us, how we think about the world and what we watch on our video devices.

The Land Of The Giants podcast investigates companies like Amazon, Netflix, Google, and others and explores their creation and creators, translates their unique culture for listeners and then evaluates how these giants impact us – sometimes to make our lives better and at times to make our lives more complicated.

Here is a summary of previous seasons.

Season 5 | In Land of the Giants: The Apple Revolution, Recode’s Peter Kafka explores the company that changed what a computer is — and then changed what a phone is. From its beginnings as a niche personal computer company, Apple became the preeminent maker of consumer tech products, a cultural trendsetter, and the most valuable company in the world. And along the way, it changed the way we live. New episodes come out on Wednesdays starting September 22, 2021.

Season 4 | Big Tech is changing every aspect of our world. But how? And at what cost? In this special four-part series Land of the Giants: Delivery Wars, Recode teams up with Eater to unbox the evolving world of food delivery. Find out how the rise of investor-backed third-party delivery apps has dramatically changed consumer behavior, helped create a modern gig workforce, disrupted small businesses, and potentially changed our relationship with food forever. From Recode, Eater, and the Vox Media Podcast Network, and hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar.

Season 3 | In Land of the Giants: The Google Empire, Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary and Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz explore how a company that began with idealistic goals of creative experimentation and making useful products has evolved into a worldwide power with enormous impact on our lives. Google's dominance in everything from search and online advertising to its YouTube and Android platforms gives it tremendous power and responsibility. But with multiple antitrust cases against it and its own employees rebelling against company decisions, is Google too big for its own good?

Season 2 | In Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect, Recode’s Peter Kafka and Rani Molla examine how Netflix got where it is today and whether or not it can maintain its streaming supremacy. Hear from Netflix’s founders and top executives as well as its competitors, critics, and more — covering everything from its unusual internal culture to its battle with Blockbuster, its disruption of Hollywood, and the upcoming streaming wars.

Season 1 | In less than two decades, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos scaled an online marketplace for books into the world's most valuable company. But at what cost? From Prime and HQ2, to the growing adoption of smart speakers and home cameras, to increasing scrutiny of Amazon's power and its role in the changing nature of work, Land of the Giants: The Rise of Amazon addresses it all with detailed, thought-provoking, measured reporting from host Jason Del Rey.

Check Land Of The Giants podcast in the fall for the latest season.