Alex Cooper, host of the viral “Call Her Daddy” podcast, is opening up about some of the show’s behind-the-scenes secrets. While appearing on Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s “Burnouts” podcast, Cooper also revealed one of the biggest lessons she’s learned since becoming a household name.. Article continues below advertisement. Alex Cooper Details What Led Her To Sign With Spotify Over Amazon. Cooper got candid about everything her “Call Her Daddy” podcast listeners wanted to hear when she spoke with Gates and Kianni, including what led her to sign a $60 million contract with Spotify in 2021.. According to Cooper, she also had an offer from Amazon; however, the deal’s terms led her to walk away from the table.. “To be honest, it was the same amount of money basically and a little less work,” she said. “So I was like, why would I not do Spotify?”. A reported paywall and the number of episodes required are some of the conditions of the Amazon deal.. Article continues below advertisement. “It was a lot as a creator at the time who didn’t have a company behind me. I was a one-woman show,” Cooper shared. “I was just trying to look at how will I be able to execute this type of deal in a capacity that I feel like I’m actually capable of. Because I wanted to be a good partner.”. Article continues below advertisement. Alex Cooper Talks Learning How Working With An Agency Really Works. MEGA. Cooper shared that signing with Spotify was a no-brainer, given that she was only required to film 52 episodes a year and was guaranteed a set amount of money, regardless of how the show performed.. And while she was excited about where the show was headed during its early days at Spotify, Cooper admitted there were industry-dealings she had to become familiar with.. For example, after signing with Spotify, Cooper shared that her money was being sent to her various agencies rather than to her directly.. Article continues below advertisement. “I was like, ‘Wait, no, I want that in my bank account. And then I’ll send your 10%,'” Cooper recalled. “Understandably, as an agency, you want that X amount of millions of dollars coming into whatever agency, UTA, WME, CAA, because then they can put that as basically that is in their revenue for the year,” she added.. Article continues below advertisement. What Has Alex Cooper Learned Since Leading One Of The World’s Most Popular Podcasts?. MEGA. That’s just one of the things Cooper had to learn, she said. Elsewhere during the episode, Cooper opened up about the “mistakes” she learned “in terms of trusting people.”. Cooper, whose podcast draws 10-12 million listeners per month, stated that she learned to put more things in writing. She added that she’d been burned in the past by people who went back on their word.. “And I’m like, ‘Wait, that never happened.’ But I guess I technically should have put that in writing so that I so I think now I put everything in writing,” she said.. Cooper Allegedly Bugs Howard Stern … Inside The P
