![]() Spotify’s deals with Mr Simmons and the the Sussexes were a part of the company’s expansion into podcasting, after its success with Joe Rogan. In a January 2022 episode of his podcast, he said: “You live in f**king Montecito and you just sell documentaries and podcasts and nobody cares what you have to say about anything unless you talk about the royal family and you just complain about them”. ![]() Mr Simmons had previously said he was annoyed he had to “share” Spotify with the prince. However, sources close to Spotify have said the couple did not meet the productivity benchmark required to receive the full headline payout from the deal, having only produced one 12-episode series, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Guardian has approached Archewell for comment. “I have got to get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. ![]() ![]() ‘The F**king Grifters.’ That’s the podcast we should have launched with them,” Mr Simmons said on his podcast, the Bill Simmons podcast. “I wish I had been involved in the ‘Meghan and Harry leave Spotify’ negotiation. The couple signed their $20 million deal with Spotify in 2020. Ringer podcast network founder Bill Simmons – who sold his company to Spotify for $196 million in 2020 and gained a leadership role at the company in the deal – criticised Harry and Meghan on his own podcast, following the announcement that the Sussexes’ audio production company, Archewell, had severed ties with Spotify. Spotify’s head of podcast innovation and monetisation has labelled Prince Harry and wife Meghan “grifters” after their $20 million (€18.3 million), multiyear deal to make podcasts with the streaming platform came to an end after they made just 12 episodes. ![]()
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