A New Look for 2025 and Beyond

Over ten years ago when Relay FM launched, we did so with a logo and identity by our friend Simon Buckmaster. It looked so dang good on the front page of iTunes in 2014:

 
 

We've been Relay FM ever since, but it is time for a bit of a refresh, and we couldn't be happier with the new direction for our brand:

It's true: we are dropping the FM. With the updated name and refreshed look, we wanted something simpler that still felt familiar. JD Davis did an incredible job with our redesign, and was very patient as Myke and I went around and around until we landed on something that worked.

We think the new logo looks especially great on our revised podcast artwork. The cleaner mark and moving from ALL CAPS to titlecase make the designs much easier to parse, especially when scrolling through a podcast app on a phone.

Here are just a few examples of the refreshed look:

A quick note:

  • It may take your podcast client a little while to see these changes, and episodes with embedded artwork published before today will obviously show the old artwork.

As we said in London back in July, we’re so proud and thankful to have been doing this for 10 years, and we can’t wait to see what the next 50 years may bring.

Relay for St. Jude 2024

August 28th marks the beginning of Relay's sixth annual fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital! 

Since 2019, the Relay community has raised $2.9 million for St. Jude. That's an incredible number, and it goes to one of the most important missions in the world.

Before St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Today, thanks in part to better therapies St. Jude has helped to develop, more than 80% of U.S. childhood cancer patients now become long-term survivors.  

But there is still work to be done to help kids with cancer and the growing numbers of survivors: The number of childhood cancer survivors in the United States is expected to approach 580,000 by 2040.

The Hackett family encountered St. Jude's expertise first hand when Stephen and Merri's oldest son was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2009. He underwent surgery at a local hospital, but because of the tumor's location in his brain, it could not be completely removed. At. St. Jude, he received 18 rounds of chemotherapy to fight the remaining tumor. During treatment, Josiah underwent subsequent surgeries, and received physical, occupational, and speech therapy.

Today, what's left of the tumor is dormant and he participates in the St. Jude Life Study. Josiah attends school, church youth group, and loves volunteering with younger children. He has a younger brother and sister, and the three of them all love reading, music, playing basketball, and more.

This story is so much bigger than the Hackett family, and with your help, St. Jude will continue in its life-saving work for years to come.


When we rally for a common cause, we become more than a community, we become beacons of hope for all. That’s why we’re asking all of you to join Relay and St. Jude this September for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Together, we can help cure childhood cancer. Our cause unites all! Go to stjude.org/relay to donate or create your campaign today.

Introducing Paper Places, Hosted by Kerry Provenzano

Today, we are launching a new podcast hosted by Kerry Provenzano.

It's called Paper Places, and it aims to demystify the journey to becoming a professional writer.

Each episode, columnist-turned-author Kerry sits down with an acclaimed writer who shares where their words have taken them.

An initial episode is out today, with Kerry's first interview publishing on Friday, May 10. Be sure to get subscribed!

Announcing Relay FM for St. Jude 2023

Over the last four years, the Relay FM (Switch On) community has raised a whopping $2.2 million to support St. Jude's life-saving work. We are thrilled to be back for the 5th year, with the goal to crack the $2.5 million mark in September!

Here are some ways to get involved:

  1. Donate directly!
  2. Launch your own campaign. Folks who do this are eligible for a couple of really cool incentives, including a new challenge coin and deskmat Both are fantastic.
  3. Set up a matching donation challenge to encourage friends and family to give.
  4. Request an employer-matching gift via Tiltify (a lot of companies do this!)

Details for all of this are on the web at https://stjude.org/relay!

And be sure to save the date for the Podcastathon! It will start on Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12 Noon and run for 12 hours! It will be streamed at https://twitch.tv/relayfm, as will some bonus streams we will announce throughout the month.

Thank you all for your passion for this project. As a dad to a St. Jude patient, this all means the world to me and my family. There are thousands of families like mine around the world that St. Jude impacts every year, and this money helps make that possible. 🧡

—Stephen

Celebrate Relay's 10th Anniversary in London!

We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a live show next year in London to celebrate Relay's 10th anniversary!

We couldn't be more excited about this event, and to bring the Relay live experience to the United Kingdom for the very first time. For this very special evening, a group of Relay hosts will be playing a Family Feud Fortunes. If you've seen the video of our 2019 show in San Francisco, you'll have a feeling for what we are planning. 

We are thrilled to be hosting this show at the epic Hackney Empire theatre:

Here are the details:

  • Location: 291 Mare Street in London

  • Date: Saturday, July 27, 2024

  • Time: 7-9 PM (with intermission)

  • Babes in Arms: Allowed

  • Show is All-Ages

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