In a market crowded with limp celebrity podcasts, the show was notably bad – the “distilled essence of purest Californian banality” – and Meghan was awful on it: she introduced fascinating guests, then covered them in “gush” (“you’re choosing liberation and newness I love that so much”) until they became boring, which is “the opposite of good interviewing technique”. That doesn’t surprise me, said James Marriott in The Times. Estimated viewers for Netflix’s most popular English films Red Notice - 230.9M Don’t Look Up - 171.4M Adam Project - 157.6M Bird Box - 157.4M Gray Man - 139.3M We Can Be Heroes - 137.3M Glass Onion - 136.3M Extraction - 135.7M Spenser Confidential - 129.1M Purple Hearts - 127. Signing the Sussexes generated useful media buzz, but relative to other podcasters, Meghan produced very little content, and seems not to have hauled in the listeners: having initially topped the charts, her series is no longer even in the top 100. But the expected revenue hasn’t materialised, and it is now laying off staff and rethinking expensive deals. It even created a dedicated campus in LA called Pod City. Four years ago, the music-streaming giant started splurging millions on headline-grabbing podcast deals, hoping that “ad dollars would follow”. It’s also “the latest sign that Spotify’s big bet on podcasting has gone sour”. To be fair, this isn’t just about the Sussexes, said James Warrington in The Daily Telegraph. You’ll see top Tweets from a number of accounts that are experts, fans or just tend to talk about Spotify on Twitter. Speaking on his own podcast, Bill Simmons declared that Meghan and Harry should have produced a show called “The F**king Grifters”. Not sure why more people arent talking about it. One senior executive went rather further, by implying that the couple had conned the firm. THE PLAYLIST on Netflix a dramatisation of the founding of Spotify is pretty great. In other words, said Reaction, Spotify had looked at their total output – 12 episodes of Meghan’s dreary Archetypes podcast, in which she interviewed some of her famous friends about the “labels that hold women back” – and concluded that it just wasn’t good enough. The decision was described as mutual, but insiders reported that the couple had failed to meet a “productivity benchmark”, and would not be getting the full payment. Last week, however, news broke that the partnership was coming to an end.
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