![]() ![]() “She’s the equivalent of an Oprah or an Ellen because she’s able to touch people in a certain way,” says Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff. Call Her Daddy was Spotify’s second-most popular podcast globally in 2021 behind The Joe Rogan Experience, and it was the No. 1 podcast among female listeners. Since Cooper joined Spotify exclusively, the streamer says, it’s gotten its money’s worth. “The Daddy Gang is a bunch of predominantly women that are excited to engage in a roller coaster where we don’t know what happens next, but we’re on the ride with Alex,” Cooper tells me, referring to her fan base. Cooper outearns actual royals Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who reportedly got between $15 million and $18 million for their three-year Spotify exclusive deals in 2022. The show’s popularity earned Cooper an exclusive three-year licensing deal with Spotify in 2021 worth $60 million, a sum that landed Cooper in the same realm as podcast king Joe Rogan, whose three-and-a-half-year Spotify exclusive deal is reportedly worth $200 million. Listeners were riveted early on, and they remain hooked. “We’re regulating the uteruses we could also regulate the penises, right?” Cooper asks. At one point she asks a male pro-life protester if the government should mandate vasectomies for men. An October episode followed Cooper as she visited a North Carolina abortion clinic. Sex still peppers her podcast-in November she recounted her effort to get a semen stain out of a suede headboard-but she also tackles topics within the safer-for-work zeitgeist. ![]() Instead of rehashing her drunken antics, Cooper’s weekly episodes now feature self-care advice and interviews with stars like Miley Cyrus, Hailey Bieber, and Julia Fox. She’s gone solo Franklyn left the show in May 2020. ![]() Since then, Cooper has transformed her podcaster profile from “sex girl” (her words) to a “role model” (fans’ words). ![]()
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