Though Gimlet isn’t primarily known as a comedy podcast network, their unionization could be groundbreaking for the entire world of podcasting, which comedy dominates in (if they pull this off and don’t upset their owners at Spotify). 

The Onion also unionized at the end of 2018 after so many other digital outlets went under or got absorbed into their larger media companies. 

Potentially, this could mean that places like Earwolf, Headgum, Forever Dog, Starburns Audio, and All Things Comedy could unionize in the not so distant future and podcasting can be even further legitimatized than it already is (imagine getting benefits for podcasting?), but we will probably just have to wait and see how Gimlet fares here.