In a means, Conan O’Brien is returning to the swing of internet hosting a late-night TV present.

Starting subsequent Monday, Could 12, SiriusXM‘s Group Coco will begin releasing full video episodes of “Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal,” his weekly interview podcast, on its YouTube channel.

Ryan Reynolds is the featured visitor for the primary full-length video podcast on YouTube. Group Coco will premiere the video episode, which runs about 65 minutes, at 6 p.m. ET on Could 12 on YouTube (at this hyperlink). Starting Could 19 new episodes can be launched within the morning, concurrent with the audio-only podcast. O’Brien’s subsequent scheduled company are comic Sarah Silverman and Paul W. Downs, the actor-writer who’s the co-creator and co-showrunner of “Hacks.”

“Full physique, full episodes, of ‘Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal,’ accessible Monday. Yeah,” says O’Brien, stretched out on a settee, in a YouTube Shorts promo video.

Beforehand, Group Coco has launched 10-15 minute clips from “Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal” on YouTube, a lot of the content material by no means made it to video. Adam Sachs, SiriusXM’s senior VP of podcast content material, believes that placing full-length video episodes on YouTube will enhance engagement and monetization alternatives.

Sachs famous that YouTube has emerged as the highest platform for podcast consumption and now has 1 billion month-to-month viewers of podcast content material. At the moment, “podcasts are being watched on the sofa,” he stated.

Sachs was beforehand president of Group Coco till its 2022 acquisition by SiriusXM for $150 million. When Group Coco began the podcast in 2018, “We stated, ‘That is very separate from [O’Brien’s] TBS present.’ We have been virtually treasured in regards to the truth there wouldn’t be cameras within the studio — the thought was, it was an intimate, natural dialog.” O’Brien’s TBS present led to 2021. Sachs’ joke with O’Brien is that the podcast was simply “a backdoor to do a brand new late-night present.”

Group Coco beforehand examined two full video episodes of O’Brien’s podcast, with optimistic outcomes. The 2024 present with Larry David as visitor has garnered 2.2 million views so far, and one other with Harrison Ford has 1.2 million views. In the meantime, different SiriusXM podcasts for which video episodes are launched to YouTube are “The place Everyone Is aware of Your Title” with Ted Danson and “Actually! With Rob Lowe.”

The growth of “Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal” on YouTube comes as O’Brien has captured a renewed presence within the zeitgeist. He hosted the 2025 Oscars to important acclaim (and secured a renewal for the gig subsequent 12 months) and delivered a viral acceptance speech the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (which premiered this week on Netflix). And Season 2 of his acclaimed Max journey collection, “Conan O’Brien Should Go,” premiered Could 8.

“Conan is having a second,” stated Sachs.

With O’Brien’s greater visibility of late, “Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal” jumped from No. 29 within the fourth quarter of 2024 to No. 18 on Edison Analysis’s Prime Podcasts chart.

For now, Group Coco will distribute the complete video episodes of the present solely on YouTube; it’s price noting that Spotify has stepped up its efforts to draw video podcasts as nicely. “For us, YouTube is the place we’ve had a presence for a really very long time,” Sachs stated. He additionally stated content material discovery on the platform is excellent — half of the views on Group Coco’s YouTube channel are pushed by the algorithm.

There are new sponsorship alternatives with “Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal,” Sachs stated. For instance, when O’Brien reads a sponsor’s message, the present can now characteristic the product sitting on the desk in entrance of him. Group Coco is also promoting presenting sponsorships with visible placement within the studio.

Group Coco’s YouTube channel began as a channel for clips to advertise the TBS late-night present. That technique carried out so nicely “it grew to become its personal enterprise,” Sachs stated. “So after we did the podcast, clips made essentially the most sense. That has been our default up till now.” Now that Group Coco has greater than 9 million subscribers on YouTube, Sachs stated, the workforce concluded that “it feels silly to not put the podcast on video.”

Group Coco, as a part of selling the brand new season of Max’s “Conan O’Brien Should Go,” is releasing bonus episodes within the “CONAF” feed recapping the primary three episodes of the journey present. These can be launched on Could 8, 15 and 22, changing the same old Thursday “Conan O’Brien Wants a Fan” episodes throughout these weeks.