Crowd Community (Crowd), one among Europe’s fastest-growing impartial podcast networks, has launched three new prisoners to its podcast For The Love of Rugby, who’re producing a sequence for the Guinness Ladies’s Six Nations.
Crimson Roses Sadia Kabeyla (Loughborough Lightning) and Maud Muir (Gloucester-Hartpury) and retired England participant Shaunagh Brown (Harlequins Ladies) are presenting weekly episodes, delving into the match and sharing unique insights from the Crimson Roses’ camp.
The strengthened presenter roster is the most recent instance of Crowd championing ladies’s sports activities, creating female-led content material and dealing with manufacturers to safe genuine, significant partnerships. Crowd additionally works with Chelsea FC Ladies’s soccer group on the We Are Chelsea Podcast. Utilizing content material from the podcast, Chelsea FC Ladies’s TikTok’s acquired 50 million views in summer season 2024 — greater than some other ladies’s sports activities group globally.
Sage additionally continues its partnership with For The Love of Rugby, as its official insights companion, offering reside information on the match. The brand new hosts use Sage insights to research 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 turn into one among Crowd’s hottest podcasts, touchdown within the Prime 10 for sports activities podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It not too long ago featured Bristol Bears participant and social media phenomenon Ilora Maher in a particular episode, and it received the Gold Award for “Finest Rugby Podcast” on the fan-voted 2025 Sports activities Podcast Awards.
Full-time hosts Ben Youngs and Dan Cole achieved chart-topping file downloads and greater than 54 million social media views with their protection of the Guinness Males’s Six Nations, and they’ll undertake a nationwide podcast tour in April and Might.
Louise Gwilliam, Expertise Supervisor at Crowd Community, stated: “2025 is about to be the most important 12 months within the historical past of rugby, by no means thoughts ladies’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 stage and with information from our companion Sage.
As we construct in the direction of the Ladies’s World Cup on English soil later this 12 months, which is already breaking ticket sale data, we would like extra manufacturers to affix us in supporting ladies’s sports activities by investing in female-led content material and partnering authentically with feminine athletes.”
