''The Fucking Grifters.' That's the podcast that we should've launched with them.' 'I do? I wish I'd been involved in the Meghan and Harry leave Spotify negotiation,' Simmons responds. Spotify's Dustee Jenkins (left) and Bill Simmons (right) speak with Emma Chamberlain (center) during 'Stream On 2023' on March 8, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.īill Simmons, Spotify's head of podcast innovation and monetization, criticized Meghan and Harry during an episode of his own podcast called 'The Bill Simmons Podcast,' which aired June 16.Ībout 19 minutes in, Simmons' guest Joe House described the host as someone who 'does a lot of business deals.' Sananès declined to comment further when reached by Insider. Amid a more recent downturn in the media industry, the streaming platform made further cuts in June, laying off 200 people in its podcast division, or 2% of total staff. Sananès' comments came a month before Spotify announced it was cutting 6%, or around 600, of its employees in January, Variety reported. 'It's an observation of the current state of the podcast industry.'

'This is not about me or my current position,' Sananès wrote. In the comments, Sananès clarified that her point was unrelated to her work at Archewell. 'The 40 most powerful people in podcasting are not executives, they are not celebrity hosts, and they are not talent agents. In October 2022, two months before her resignation was publicized, Sananès shared a TikTok where she criticized an article published by The Hollywood Reporter about the 40 most powerful people in podcasting. Sananès' exit came just months after Archewell's head of communications, Toya Holness, stepped down and around the same time that Mandana Dayani, president of the company, also resigned, The Telegraph reported. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Apin The Hague, Netherlands.Ĭhris Jackson/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation

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