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Skip to content All Sections Subscribe Now 62°F Saturday, September 16th 2023 Today's e-Edition Home Page Close Menu * News * News * Latest Headlines * Crime and Public Safety * California News * National News * World News * Politics * Education * Environment * Science * Health * Mr. Roadshow * Transportation * The Cannifornian * Local * Local News Map * Bay Area * San Jose * Santa Clara County * Peninsula * San Mateo County * Alameda County * Santa Cruz County * Sal Pizarro * Obituaries * Obituaries in the News * Local Obituaries * Place an Obituary * Opinion * Opinion * Editorials * Opinion Columnists * Letters to the Editor * Commentary * Cartoons * Election Endorsements * Sports * Sports * San Francisco 49ers * San Francisco Giants * Golden State Warriors * Raiders * Oakland Athletics * San Jose Sharks * San Jose Earthquakes * Bay FC * College Sports * Pac-12 Hotline * High School Sports * Other Sports * Sports Columnists * Sports Blogs * Things To Do * Entertainment * Things To Do * Restaurants, Food and Drink * Celebrities * TV Streaming * Movies * Music * Theater * Lifestyle * Advice * Travel * Pets and Animals * Comics * Puzzles and Games * Horoscopes * Event Calendar * Business * Business * Housing * Economy * Technology * SiliconValley.com * Real Estate * Marketplace * Subscribe * Log in * Logout Close Menu Get Morning Report and other email newsletters Sign Up ENTERTAINMENT | MEGHAN MARKLE EARNED MORE THAN THE WEEKND FOR… SHARE THIS: * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) * * Subscribe * Log in Account Settings Contact Us Log Out Spoof a user Get Morning Report and other email newsletters Sign Up * Subscribe * Log in Search 62°F Saturday, September 16th 2023 Today's e-Edition Entertainment * Things To Do * Food & Drink * Celebrities * TV * Movies * Music * Advice * Travel * Pets & Animals * Event Calendar Trending: * Entertainment | Police watchdog’s retirement * Entertainment | Andrew Luck’s return * Entertainment | Baekjeong now open * Entertainment | A’s move vote * Entertainment | SJ religious freedom case * Entertainment | Scorsese film fest THINGS TO DO ENTERTAINMENT NewsNews Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. ENTERTAINMENT | MEGHAN MARKLE EARNED MORE THAN THE WEEKND FOR JUST ‘12 HOURS WORK,’ EX-SPOTIFY EXEC TELLS BBC EVEN THOUGH MARKLE ONLY PRODUCED 12 HOURS OF PODCAST CONTENT IN 2½ YEARS, SHE POSSIBLY EARNED FAR MORE MONEY THAN THE WEEKND FOR ‘BLINDING LIGHTS,’ THE MOST STREAMED SONG IN SPOTIFY’S HISTORY SHARE THIS: * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) * * Click to share a free article with a friend GIFT THIS ARTICLE WHAT IS ARTICLE SHARING? Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month. These can be shared with friends and family who are not subscribers. Subscribe now! or log in to your account. Share Button Disabled Subscribe Log in FILE – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit the track and field event at the Invictus Games in The Hague, Netherlands, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have been asked to vacate their home in Britain. Frogmore Cottage, located on the grounds of Windsor Castle west of London, had been intended as the couple’s main residence before they gave up royal duties and moved to Southern California. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) By Martha Ross | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: June 20, 2023 at 11:12 a.m. | UPDATED: June 20, 2023 at 1:41 p.m. “Grifter” allegations continue to percolate against Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, as reports and complaints grow about the extent to which she in particular didn’t do that much work on her 12-episode Archetypes podcast to fulfill their $20 million deal to produce content with Spotify. After the Wall Street Journal suggested that Meghan might not earn that full $20 million after failing to meet productivity clauses over 2½ years, Podnews.net reported that it had heard “from multiple sources” that some of the interviews aired on her podcast were done by staffers — not the Duchess of Sussex herself. Meanwhile, Will Page, the former former chief economist at Spotify, told the BBC on Friday that Meghan and Harry possibly earned more from their Spotify deal than the company’s most streamed song ever, “Blinding Lights,” by The Weeknd. Page, a veteran radio and podcast host, said on BBC’s “The World Tonight” that he doesn’t know the audience numbers that Meghan pulled in when Archetypes was launched last August. But he said he “did a quick bit of math” before coming on the show. He told BBC’s Shaun Ley that if the Sussexes received anywhere near the reported $20 million, they earned more than ‘Blinding Lights,’ the hit song by The Weeknd. Page didn’t explain his calculations but based his figures on Meghan only doing 12 episodes. “Not bad for 12 hours work,” Page said. Page also explained why the demise of Meghan and Harry’s Spotify deal reflects larger trends in the tumultuous podcast industry. The industry is a new media that doesn’t operate like film, TV or music, which are all reliant on producing blockbusters that reach large audiences and penetrate the culture. “What podcasts really are are a sea of niches,” Page said. “(Podcast) audiences don’t want them to become a blockbuster model. Spotify made a huge bet on creating these blockbuster podcasts like Harry and Meghan, and the audiences said, ‘That’s not for us. We want niche content, we want intimacy'” with our podcasts. On Page’s own podcast, the economic-trends show “Bubble Trouble,” he said that the only real blockbuster in the podcast world is Joe Rogan’s Spotify show. Page said “The Joe Rogan Experience” can bring in 3 million listeners for a “small show” and 20 million for an episode featuring Elon Musk or another controversial guest engaging in a free-wheeling conversation that is certain to go viral. However much some might object to Rogan’s content, Page said that Rogan works really hard at his podcast, producing up to three, three-hour shows per week. Meghan reportedly had a full, expert team provided by Spotify to get her lavishly produced podcast off the ground, nearly two years after she and Harry signed their deal with the company. “Archetypes” explored societal labels attached to women by showcasing expert commentary on female gender roles and Meghan’s chatty conversations with such celebrity guests as Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Trevor Noah. But reports have emerged that Meghan didn’t interview all the guests on her show, especially the non-celebrities. Questions from Meghan were edited in after these interviews took place to make it sound as though she was in conversations with these guests, Podnews.net said. Podnews.net didn’t cite specific examples of when Meghan didn’t interview her guests, but reports have surfaced a social media post from last year from journalist Allison Yarrow. The journalist revealed that she wasn’t interviewed by Meghan for the show but by a member of her production company, the Daily Mail reported. Yarrow, who appeared on an episode that explored the origin and harmful uses of the word b—-, thanked a producer for being such an “excellent interviewer.” RELATED ARTICLES * Entertainment | Kutcher quits anti-sex abuse group over Masterson support * Entertainment | Tory Lanez denied bail while appealing shooting conviction * Entertainment | Ashton Kutcher resigns from nonprofit board, admits ‘questioning victims’ in his glowing character letter for Danny Masterson * Entertainment | Hugh Jackman and his wife join ‘gray divorce’ trend with split after 27 years of marriage * Entertainment | Friend being sentenced? Tips for writing better character letters than Asthon Kutcher and Mila Kunis In December, the outgoing head of audio at Meghan and Harry’s Archewell company claimed on TikTok that she created “Archetypes.” Executive producer Rebecca Sananes decided to speak out after a story in the Hollywood Reporter, “The Forty Most Powerful People in Podcasting,” named Meghan as a “new megawatt” creator after “Archetypes” initially dominated the charts. Sananas said the success of any podcast, including “Archetypes,” is due to its producers, saying they do most of the hard work but are “under-valued, under-credited and under-paid.” On Friday, “news ricocheted around the world,” as the Daily Mail said, that Spotify had ended its massive podcasting deal with Meghan and Harry. Just as this news broke, she and Harry were called “(expletive) grifters” by Simmons on his eponymous podcast. Simmons also suggested that he has a good story to tell about him being called in to help Harry craft some podcast ideas. The New York Post had fun with a cover that labeled Harry and Meghan “Their Royal Laziness.” Simmons’ scathing assessment of the couple confirmed critics’ views that the Montecito-based millionaires been paid obscene amounts of money to do very little work, while the company recently laid off some 200 employees. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Report an error * Policies and Standards * Contact Us * Tags: * Celebrities MARTHA ROSS | FEATURES WRITER Martha Ross is a Bay Area News Group features writer for The Mercury News and East Bay Times who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. 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