Key facts
- Gary Neville is increasing the frequency of The Overlap's football talk shows to daily.
- The Overlap network aims to become the 'biggest non-live football platform in the world'.
- The Overlap claimed 2.2 billion views across all platforms in 2025.
- Buzz16, Neville's production company, generated £11.6m in revenue last year.
- Gary Lineker's Goalhanger production company reportedly earned £14m from a Netflix deal.
- Goalhanger claims over 75 million podcast downloads each month.
Gary Neville is escalating his media presence by making 'The Overlap' football talk show a daily program, intensifying a competition for audience attention with Gary Lineker's production company, Goalhanger.
Neville's 'The Overlap' network, which he co-founded with Buzz16 a decade ago, has seen significant growth since its 2021 launch. The platform features long-form discussion shows, interviews, and fan debates, and has ambitions to become the 'biggest non-live football platform in the world.' In 2025, it claimed 2.2 billion views across all platforms. The recent acquisition of influencer Mark Goldbridge's YouTube channels further bolsters Neville's media influence.
Buzz16, the production company behind The Overlap, generated £11.6 million in revenue last year. A majority stake in the business was recently sold to Global, a major European commercial radio company.
Meanwhile, Gary Lineker's Goalhanger, co-founded in 2014, reportedly earned £14 million from a deal with Netflix, which will broadcast Lineker's 'The Rest Is Football' podcast daily during the World Cup from a New York studio. Goalhanger claims over 75 million podcast downloads monthly and has expanded into various genres beyond sports, including politics, history, and science.
While Neville's Overlap is described as a 'video-first' business with 1.66 million YouTube subscribers, Goalhanger is noted as a 'podcast-first' entity that is now pivoting into video. Despite some similarities, Goalhanger's broader genre approach and different business model mean they do not directly compete with Buzz16, according to Goalhanger co-founder Tony Pastor.