Alex<\/strong> said, \u201cTo be honest, it was the same amount of money basically and a little less work. So I was like, why would I not do Spotify?\u201d<\/p>\nAnother downside for Amazon is that some of the episodes of her podcast would be behind a paywall.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a lot as a creator at the time who didn\u2019t have a company behind me. I was a one-woman show,\u201d the podcast host shared. \u201cI 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\u2019m actually capable of. Because I wanted to be a good partner.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that the Spotify deal was easy to \u201cwrap [her] head around\u201d as it was 52 episodes a year with a guaranteed check each month. She didn\u2019t need to hit a certain amount of downloads or anything to get the money.<\/p>\n
But she did struggle with the way the industry works in terms of how agencies get checks and take their cut.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Wait, no, I want that in my bank account. And then I\u2019ll send your 10%,\u2019\u201d Alex<\/strong> says. \u201cUnderstandably, 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.\u201d<\/p>\nShe clarified that the agency wasn\u2019t being \u201cshady,\u201d she was just \u201cso green\u201d and had a lot to learn at the time.<\/p>\n
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