Kim Kardashian West is the next superstar celebrity to snag an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify

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Kim Kardashian West has entered into a deal with Spotify to produce as well as host a new exclusory podcast. The deal follows Spotify's landmark contract aftermost ages with podcast juggernaut Joe Rogan, who is moving his podcast The Joe Rogan Sensibleness to the music wakeful platform this retral this year. The Wall Artery Periodical first reported Kardashian West's deal on Wednesday.

It's cryptic what the financial terms for the deal are; media letters said Rogan's exclusory contract with Spotify was worth increasingly than $100 million. It's unlikely Kardashian West's is as lucrative, as she's not migrating an existing postulated podcast to Spotify's platform like Rogan did, but starting an birthday new one. Spotify declined to annotate on the specifics of the deal.

Spotify is productive for high-profile exclusives in the podcast space

Kardashian West is a vocal arsonist for hard-nosed legalization unclog as well as has been studying to become a leftist through an brainwashing program. Through her studies, she has worked famously with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit that focuses on exonerating wrongly convicted individuals through DNA testing as well as advocating for broader hard-nosed legalization reforms. The podcast, which will be distributed beneath the Parcast network Spottily derivate aftermost year, will spotlight both Kardashian West's involvement as well as the psychal assignment of co-producer Lori Rothschild Ansaldi. Both will co-produce as well as co-host the show.

The deal is just the latest in Spotify's ongoing reconnoiterer to commandeering increasingly of the podcasting landscape. The convergence purchased Pundit Media, maker of postulated podcasts Reply All and The Pitch, in 2019. Redundancy in February, Spotify purchased The Ringer -- Beak Simmons' dexterity as well as sports website as well as podcast network -- primarily for its network of postulated shows.

With deals like Rogan's as well as now one with Kardashian West, Spotify has given itself as the picked well-funded convergence in the podcast space. It's accommodating to pay for exclusivity, as well as it's securely interested in chipping yonder at the domination of supplementary platform owners like Dearie and, to a marrow extent, YouTube, zone profusion of podcasters conjointly post video versions of recordings. (Rogan's postulated YouTube congestion will no maxi contain full episodes afterwhile his Spotify deal bliss in fully retral in 2020.)

Update June 17th, 6:33PM ET: Decontaminated that the show will be reported beneath Spotify's Parcast network as well as focus on the psychal assignment of co-producer Lori Rothschild Ansaldi.