PR disasters (IYKYK) thread 5

[AtIusvue]

For Meghan and Harry, As ever and Archewell posts.

How can she take the business global? She has no staff left and no NF staff.

On the As ever website, there hasn’t been a press release since last July!

He’s a loose cannon at this point! , did he learn nothing from his channel 4 cock up? 🙄

It’s not like Netflix are some tinpot, low ambition company. If a global, billion dollar corporation doesn’t think you should be expanding globally, then it’s for very good reason.

Agree, @elessar. Netflix is obviously the expert here.

So the Royal Family were holding her back.

Then Netflix were holding her back.

It's so hard on poor Meghan, constantly being involved with these big organisations that give her funding, opportunities and publicity. No wonder her ventures kept failing.

Thank goodness she has finally Found Freedom (again) and we can all watch her soaring away by the power of her own immense talents...

NF obviously understand they won’t be getting their money back either.

They must know, that when this info went public, that it would kill off As ever.

Why not just sit back and skim whatever profits came their way? Why did they have to publicly end it?

Im guessing because they aren’t willing to cover the costs and put more money into the business( now that they have the data/sales figures), because it’s showing the business isn’t viable.

There’s no way Meg can cover the costs to scale up the business. Maybe that’s why NF pulled out- because thats the supposed next phase. If NF aren’t willing to invest the money for scaling up….no one else will.

BBC News - Meghan's lifestyle brand and Netflix end partnership
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98gkglrk4wo

Found you all! Obviously, this is great news for Meghan and the brand without Netflix holding her back, lol...

I think he has to, or he would fall apart.

When he finally does see it, and hits rock bottom, he’s going to start lashing out. Maybe this is why Pa / the royal family have kept funding them on the quiet - it’s a meltdown prevention programme.

Thank goodness she has finally Found Freedom (again) and we can all watch her soaring away by the power of her own immense talents...

Do we have any ideas when this might happen? Been waiting for six years already, so I'd hate to miss it but I do have the dentist next Wednesday. If she could hold off till Thursday I'd appreciate it.

Waiting for the cheque to clear?

the para Olympics message from H was this just to British athletes? More cosying up to the UK??

Yes, I agree. and I think Sarandos has been doing her a personal favour, she even mentions their ‘personal friendship’ in her statement, however using shareholders money to prop us a friends business is a very short lived endeavor if that business is sinking fast. It’s not a good look for him.

She should have kept the ‘personal friendship’ out of that statement, it’s so unprofessional, but it’s another example of how she utilizes connections to promote herself.

Sounds about right, Atlusvue
Despite the pretence that the "first look deal" was something rather marvelous it was always obvious the end had come with Netflix - the latest news merely confirming it

The thing about Russian paralympians being allowed to compete under their own flag was on the BBC news last night, @ShamedBySiri, and while I don't know what the IOC are playing at I expect money has changed hands somewhere ... after all neither are strangers to corruption

I'm kind of hoping that Harry doesn't weigh in on the flag issue too, but his mouth seems so far beyond control that there's no knowing

All I saw.was he sent a message to one particular athlete who started off in his invictus games and who now made team gb in the paraolympics so I can see why he would s end a message to that particular athlete

Not sure abojt the pp statement he is doing it for all athletes as that isn't what ive seen

It surely must have dawned on him by now that he was hooked by a grifter.

I'm starting to feel a teeny bit sorry for them. A case of hubris. Two very average people who happened to be linked to an important institution, which they thought meant they were special.

Had they stayed longer in the RF and planned an exit strategy with the help of the Palace staff they might have got further.

I suspect the titles will go at some stage so they will be just another middle aged, middle class couple with 2 kids.

I don't think another Royal secrets tour will work in their favour as they are no longer seen as credible or as the victims of the nasty Royals.

H&M got involved in political positions from the start, and all the ‘global’ humbug that came with that.

Remember them standing with Ukraine four years ago? They thought they were bossing the world.

‘Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and all of us at Archewell stand with the people of Ukraine against this breach of international and humanitarian law and encourage the global community and its leaders to do the same’ (Feb 2022).

The ‘encourage the global community and its leaders’ part managed to be simultaneously offensive, hilariously entertaining and psychologically compelling.

Such grandiose statements, as though from a nation state’s presidential office, needed slapping down by the royal family at the time.

I am losing track ……what does Archewell do now ?

Perhaps this statement was made around the time he suggested the televised therapy session with Putin?? A little bit of therapy could uncover Putin's demons and right the world.

Ceased to exist.

It’s now morphed into something called ‘Archewell Philanthropies’ with fiscal rules that better benefit the Sussexes, apparently.

I am not surprised.

With the collapse of the entertainment/spread empire it seems H&M are leaning into the rent-a-royal model as seen in the grifters getaway to Jordan. H is happily engaging in "FA" and is thereby accelerating the date when he arrives at "FO".

I have always said that H would eventually create a diplomatic mess too big for KC3 to contain and given H's current trajectory, I stand by this forecast.

Netflix does not exist to provide free financial support for H&M. So, it is not surprising that Netflix dropped this non-performing duo and will re-allocate Netflix resources previously provided to H&M (production, marketing, etc.) to other profit generating projects.

What is surprising is that Sunshine Sachs permitted such an ungracious response from H&M. Lashing out at Netflix is the worst move possible and not only torches bridges with Netflix but also alienates potential investors who see H&M bad-mouthing Netflix despite all the resources CEO Ted provided to H&M.

Being associated with such unprofessional public statements seriously damages the Sunshine Sachs brand...which is image management. IMHO, Sunshine Sachs is either sending the Z-team to babysit H&M or has possibly fled the burning building!

Thank you although none the wiser!

I lost you all! Have just caught up

Over on X/Twitter - a lot of chatter about the fact that several accounts that deal in RF-related gossip have been suspended (I believe through mass reporting). This is being attributed to Montecito machinations.

The nitter/X that have been posted earlier in the thread no longer work, so I can believe this.

‘personal friendship’ in her statement, however using shareholders money to prop us a friends business is a very short lived endeavor if that business is sinking fast. It’s not a good look for him.

I don't agree, it is playing the long game- If they divorce NF would want first look, that would be a very lucrative program for NF (although this will decrease as more time passes)