Devin Griffin's guest appearances

Devin Griffin

The Digiday Podcast

Line For Line Podcast

Jessica Lessin

Chuck Todd

Erika Nardini

Gary Liu

Ben Smith

Jeff Taylor

Andréa Mallard

Amy Adams

Rich Kleiman

Kara Swisher

Martha Stewart

Peter Kafka

Leah Finnegan

Ryan Edwards

Mark Howard

OwlTail

Jack Rose

Westosha’s road to state made a pit stop

The Post-Game With Coach Morris Ft Kenny Garth, Jack Rose & Devin Griffin

BET+ launched a year ago this week, making Black Entertainment Television a competitor in the increasingly crowded video streaming race."I think what BET means now to the younger generation is different than what it meant to me 25 years ago," Devin Griffin, the OTT service's general manager, said on the Digiday Podcast."At the time I was plugged into BET, there were very few images of Black people on television outside of what was happening Thursday night on NBC, and besides sports," he said.BET helped change that when it was founded in 1980. Fast forward 40 years and market research conducted in the lead up to launching BET+ found that there's still a lot of unmet demand for stories centering on Black experiences and characters."Black consumers watch more long-form video content than anybody else across American society. There's a really big appetite there," Griffin, who previously worked at Netflix, said.That isn't to say that Black viewers are the only target audience. Griffin said that non-Black viewers are tuning in, too.BET+ is a standalone offering separate from the BET channel, though both are owned by ViacomCBS. It costs $10 a month and carries more than 2,000 hours of programming, including original programming such as "things that come from the BET 'legacy library,' things that come from VH1, TV Land, Comedy Central, other brands across the ViacomCBS family," Griffin said.

BET+ launched a year ago this week, making Black Entertainment Television a competitor in the increasingly crowded video streaming race."I think what BET means now to the younger generation is different than what it meant to me 25 years ago," Devin Griffin, the OTT service's general manager, said on the Digiday Podcast."At the time I was plugged into BET, there were very few images of Black people on television outside of what was happening Thursday night on NBC, and besides sports," he said.BET helped change that when it was founded in 1980. Fast forward 40 years and market research conducted in the lead up to launching BET+ found that there's still a lot of unmet demand for stories centering on Black experiences and characters."Black consumers watch more long-form video content than anybody else across American society. There's a really big appetite there," Griffin, who previously worked at Netflix, said.That isn't to say that Black viewers are the only target audience. Griffin said that non-Black viewers are tuning in, too.BET+ is a standalone offering separate from the BET channel, though both are owned by ViacomCBS. It costs $10 a month and carries more than 2,000 hours of programming, including original programming such as "things that come from the BET 'legacy library,' things that come from VH1, TV Land, Comedy Central, other brands across the ViacomCBS family," Griffin said.

'One beat in an ongoing movement': BET+ general manager Devin Griffin on the streamer's evolution