SPOTIFY is taking Harry and Meghan's £18million podcast challenge "into its personal arms" by hiring a number of in-house producers to lastly assist ship content material.
The streaming big has been ready greater than a yr for the runaway royals to supply materials as a part of their mega-money deal.
Spotify stated it was trying ahead to a "full-scale" launch of reveals in 2021 - however nothing appeared.
Now bosses on the streaming platform are stepping in to assist Harry and Meghan ship the products.
They're recruiting new in-house employees to work with Harry and Meghan's Archewell Audio for a present that options "the voices of excessive profile girls."
The roles are being supplied to candidates on quick six-month contracts based mostly in Los Angeles.
One advert for a senior producer position at Gimlet Initiatives, Spotify's personal manufacturing arm, reads: "We’re presently assembling a present workforce that can construct and launch a brand new unique present with Archewell that includes the voices of excessive profile girls.
"The perfect candidate has expertise working with high-profile expertise, and an curiosity within the intersection of social activism and standard tradition."
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Harry and Meghan's solely podcast effort thus far has been a 35-minute 'vacation particular' in December 2020, that includes celeb friends corresponding to Elton John and James Corden.
Followers have been questioning when their so-called "full-scale launch" of episodes could be coming.
A supply near the challenge stated: "Spotify has been ready a very long time for some content material from Harry and Meghan and now it seems they've lastly taken issues into their very own arms.
"Hiring a raft of in-house expertise on Spotify's aspect will guarantee they lastly squeeze one thing out of them as they bid to honour their contract."
Harry and Meghan's lack of content material got here regardless of the duo hiring high-flying podcast producer Rebecca Sanaes as their 'head of audio' at Archewell final yr.
The Solar reported in November that Harry and Meghan have been working to guard the £18million deal after failing to muster up any content material.
With just one present underneath their belts, the streaming platform has thus far paid the couple £500,000 for every minute.
In the meantime, Harry has appeared on quite a few different podcasts together with Dax Shepard’s Armchair Skilled in Could, the place he stated his life was like Jim Carrey movie The Truman Present.
They each additionally discovered time to take a seat down for his or her sensational Oprah interview in March final yr — whereas the Duchess later performed pranks on the Ellen DeGeneres present.
Spotify and Archewell have been approached for remark.
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