Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could be in trouble with Spotify after their "predictable and anaemic" content failed to capture audiences' attention, one royal commentator has claimed.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a deal with the streaming giant back in December 2020, worth a reported $25m (£19.8m).
But with the couple two and a half years into their arrangement, royal critic Daniela Elser says they have little to show for it.
Elser said: "Back in December 2020, two weeks after Harry and Meghan announced their Spotify marriage, the couple put out a roughly half-hour episode featuring a few starry chums offering their profound thoughts on the first year of the pandemic.
"It was predictable and anaemic and seemed exactly what I figured Harry and Meghan would start pumping out: podcasts where they nattered to their A-list mates, in between serving up some self help-lite pap.
"Except that then came... nothing... and more nothing... and a bit more nothing."
So far the only offering from the couple to have made it onto the platform has been the first series of Meghan's podcast Archetypes, a self-styled feminist podcast featuring big names like Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Paris Hilton.
The first episode debuted at number one on Spotify's podcast charts, but as the weeks went by, Meghan's interviews failed to impress listeners and its popularity quickly dropped off.
Since the podcast ended in November 2022 there have been rumours of a second season, but nothing has been officially announced.
Meanwhile Harry has yet to make his own debut onto the platform, having appeared in countless tell-all TV interviews – but none on Spotify.
The couple's most lucrative deal to date with Netflix, reported by Forbes to be worth an eye-watering $100m, seems to have produced similarly mixed results.
The pair's documentary, Harry & Meghan, became the platform's most-streamed documentary to have debuted on the platform after the three-part series saw them launch accusations against their royal relatives and reiterate their desire for privacy.
But so far it's the only output from the couple to have made a splash on the streaming site.
Harry was set to produce a show about the Invictus games, entitled Heart of Invictus, in time for this summer, but it is unclear whether the show will be airing on time.
