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#’Call Her Daddy’ inks $60M Spotify deal after Barstool host feud

“#’Call Her Daddy’ inks $60M Spotify deal after Barstool host feud”

You may choose to call her daddy, but now you have to listen to her on Spotify.

“Call Her Daddy,” one of the world’s most popular podcasts, is leaving Barstool Sports for an exclusive deal with the streaming service starting on July 21.

The three-year, podbuster deal is reportedly worth $60 million, according to Variety, and is the largest exclusive Spotify has ever made for a woman-led show.

Alex Cooper’s podcast, which made many headlines over former co-host Sofia Franklyn’s dramatic departure last year, will have all past episodes available on its new home along with whatever comes next for the “Daddy Gang.”

Cooper, 26, concisely announced the major move and her next episode on the show’s Instagram Tuesday with a post captioned, “NEW SEASON. NEW HOME. NEW EPISODE. SEE U F – – KERS AT MIDNIGHT.”

Host Alex Cooper was quick to celebrate her new multimillion dollar deal. — Host Alex Cooper was quick to celebrate her new multimillion-dollar deal.

Spotify also wasted little time enjoying the spoils of their victory.

“Call Her Daddy” had been a Barstool production since 2018 and available across streaming services. But come July, “all future episodes and additional exclusive new projects in development” will belong to Spotify, the company announced in a press release.

“From its start three years ago, the show has always been about challenging the status-quo and manifesting conversations that previously only happened behind closed doors,” Cooper said in a statement, adding that she will “continue raising the bar great with content and guests” on her new platform.

“Call Her Daddy” was also named the fifth most popular global podcast on Spotify at the end of 2020, shortly after the fallout with Franklyn.

The drama between the hosts, along with Barstool’s David Portnoy, surrounded HBO Sports executive Peter “Suitman” Nelson, who was reportedly involved in business negotiations between the hosts and Barstool.

Both Cooper and Franklyn wanted to make more of their meteoric rise to fame than Barstool was offering, but ended up going after each other as Nelson’s involvement allegedly soured a potentially harmonious deal.

The duo stopped speaking and Franklyn exited the show to launch her own podcast, “Sofia With an F,” leaving Cooper as the solo host over the past few months, a role she’s literally taken to new financial heights.

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