Jeremy Boering Steps Down from Daily Wire Empire – What’s Next for Conservative Media Giant?

Jeremy Boering, co-founder of The Daily Wire, announced he will be resigning from his post as CEO. Boering will remain on in an advisory capacity and continue to work on his creative projects at the organization (for now). 

The Daily Wire went from a small startup online news site to a billion dollar conservative media behemoth under Boering’s leadership. New CEO Caleb Robinson and co-founder, Ben Shapiro are looking for growth investment in the coming years meaning potentially partnerships with larger media organizations or even a buyout. 

While the Daily Wire has been majorly successful since its launch in 2015, it has recently suffered some controversy. In 2024, The Daily Wire fired Candace Owens (allegedly) and accused her of being antisemitic, stirring up quite a bit of online drama around the phrase “Christ is King.” Since her departure, Candace Owens has become widely popular and not only with conservative listeners. She has broadened her reporting to pop culture and is the leading voice on the Blake Lively v Just Baldoni PR war (the left is positively terrified by her jump to mainstream). At the time of her termination (allegedly) from The Daily Wire about a year ago, Candace Ownes had 4 million instagram followers, and 4.8 million X followers and. Today she has 6 million instagram followers and 6.8 million X followers and it’s a little harder to peg down the podcast listeners but if it follows the trend, Candace Owens has increased her reach, and therefore her monetization (likely), by about 40%. 

Not long after the departure of Candace Ownes, The Daily Wire lost their only other high profile female contributor, Brett Cooper and the rumors as to why were not forgiving of the Daily Wire or Boering himself. Candace Owens herself contributed a video on these rumors. Content creators claiming to have significant sources say that Cooper was not happy with the culture at the Daily Wire and her disagreements with Boering caused him to not only force her out but to replace her with her (former) best friend even going as far as to get that friend acting classes to learn how to mimic Cooper. Additionally, there was some suspicious internet activity where Cooper deleted all her photos of her former best friend. Since her departure just months ago, Brett Cooper has built her own show which today has 1.5 million subscribers with consistently 100s of thousands of same day views. The Comment Section (her Daily Wire show) still has 3.9 million subscribers, mostly built by Cooper, but the video views of the posts are pretty low compared to Brett’s time (around 10 to 20 thousand contemporary viewers versus 100s of thousands with Brett’s videos. The fact that the Daily Wire is keeping The Comment Section going frankly seems just like a petty shot at Brett Cooper. Cooper seems to agree based on her response to Boering’s departure.

Just before the announcement of his resignation, Boering accused Tucker Carlson, one of the most popular conservative voices in media, of saying the United States was the “bad guy” in World War II which he absolutely did not say (he was making a pretty nuanced argument about mass migration destroying European cities). Tucker didn’t respond publicly to this accusation but it seems less than incidental that this post occurred right before Boering announced his departure. 

Despite some clear controversy, the Daily Wire has also had a host of successes under Boering’s leadership. Matt Walsh has thrived in recent months with a majorly successful theatrical release of Am I Racist which made $4.5 million at the box office not to mention a ton of publicity. The Daily Wire Plus has been a success financially featuring all their podcasters plus creative content like Lady Ballers and other well received content. 

The rumors are flying about what comes next for The Daily Wire. But what can be said for sure, is The Daily Wire created a space for conservative media that did not exist before. Boering and Shapiro, whatever their latest controversies may be, were part of a movement to change the paradigm and we stand on their shoulders along with the shoulders of Andrew Breitbart (may he rest in peace).