Meghan Markle is again within the podcast sport — with a brand new companion.
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, inked a partnership with podcast community Lemonada Media. That comes after Spotify‘s unique podcast take care of Prince Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Productions led to mid-2023 with the couple having had delivered only one present — the Markle-hosted interview collection “Archetypes” — beneath the settlement.
Underneath the brand new deal, Lemonada will distribute the primary season of Markle’s “Archetypes” collection for all audio platforms, beginning within the spring of 2024. The corporate additionally will develop a brand new, as-yet-untitled authentic podcast collection hosted by the Duchess of Sussex.
“I’m proud to now have the ability to share that I’m becoming a member of the good crew at Lemonada to proceed my love of podcasting,” Markle stated in an announcement. “Having the ability to help a female-founded firm with a roster of thought upsetting and extremely entertaining podcasts is a unbelievable strategy to kick off 2024. Our plan to re-release ‘Archetypes’ in order that extra folks can now have entry to it, in addition to launching a dynamic new podcast are nicely within the works. I’m so keen to have the ability to share it quickly, and am overjoyed to be becoming a member of the Lemonada household.”
“Archetypes,” during which Markle explores the labels that attempt to maintain ladies again, might be out there throughout all podcast platforms for the primary time without work Spotify. Lemonada is overseeing advert gross sales and distribution for the collection. So far, “Archetypes” has had over 10 million downloads/listens, with a mean of almost 2 million listens per episode, and debuted as Spotify’s No.1 podcast in 47 international locations all over the world.
“We’re past honored that Meghan has trusted us to assist democratize entry to ‘Archetypes,’ and that so many extra folks all over the world can have entry to the collection quickly,” stated Lemonada CEO and co-founder Jessica Cordova Kramer. “Meghan’s expertise as host, creator and conversationalist is unparalleled and we’re thrilled to co-create a brand new collection along with her that fosters her strategy to creating artwork that issues.”
“Archetypes” joins Lemonada’s lineup of podcasts together with “Wiser Than Me With Julia Louis-Dreyfus,” which was named the 2023 present of the 12 months by Apple; Jennette McCurdy’s “Laborious Emotions”; “Humorous Cuz It’s True With Elyse Myers”; Gracie award-winners “Final Day” and “Imagine Her”; “Selection Phrases With Samantha Bee”; “Within the Bubble With Andy Slavitt”; “Add to Cart With Kulap Vilaysack and SuChin Pak”; and actuality present “Being Trans.”
Archewell Productions was based in 2020 by Prince Harry and Meghan to provide programming that “informs, elevates and conjures up.” The corporate, which is repped by WME, additionally has a partnership with Netflix.
Sources had stated Harry and Meghan needed to maneuver away from unique Spotify distribution to discover a new house for his or her audio initiatives. Spotify had anticipated extra content material to come back out of its pact with Archewell three years into their settlement, which was reportedly price $20 million.
Within the wake of the information about Spotify’s take care of Archewell coming to an finish, Invoice Simmons, founding father of The Ringer (which Spotify acquired in 2020), stated on his self-titled podcast that Spotify ought to have launched a podcast with Harry and Meghan referred to as “The Fucking Grifters.” “I gotta get drunk one evening and inform the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to attempt to assist him with a podcast thought. It’s one in all my finest tales,” Simmons stated.
