Meghan Markle's latest media venture fizzles out after poor performance
SkyNews.com.au Digital Reporter Reilly Sullivan has weighed in on the quiet end of Meghan Markle's latest media venture, calling her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder an underperforming project that was never going to last.
'This show has completely underperformed. It did not really appear on the Spotify charts,' Mr Sullivan told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power.
'There's no way this will come back, because it hasn't performed well, you know, in terms of advertising or any type of revenue you can glean from the podcast. It really has failed on that front.'
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