Kate Middleton and Prince William are unlikely to ever forgive Meghan Markle and Prince Harry as they have caused such deep personal wounds according to a royal expert.
13.06.2024 - 17:27 / deadline.com
Gersh‘s Digital department has appointed Meg Chemburkar to the new position of Head of Affiliate Marketing, the first such role established at a major agency, also promoting seven.
In her new role, Chemburkar will focus on monetizing clients’ social media channels to generate new revenue streams and crafting innovative campaigns with brand partners. She was formerly with leading affiliate marketing platform LTK and brings with her extensive experience across PR, talent representation and digital partnerships, from her previous roles at Ketchum, DBA and TikTok.
Today’s Digital promotees at Gersh include Molly Pitzele, Julia Perez and Zoe Berman to Agent, as well as Juliet Noble, Ariadne Bazigos, Sydney Rosenzweig and Marisa Yocca to Coordinator.
News of Gersh’s staff moves comes five months following its acquisition of the Digital and Alternative departments of the now defunct A3 Artists Agency, in the first major M&A announcement of 2024. The idea has been to expand the roster for a department seen as a key driver of the growth plan the agency has undertaken following an equity investment by Crestview Partners last year.
Gersh’s digital department — overseen by Senior Partner and Head of Digital, Jade Sherman — boasts a diverse roster of top-tier creators, actors, celebrities, athletes and personalities, spanning various platforms and categories. Its core expertise lies in an entrepreneurial approach to optimizing revenue streams for clients through sourcing brand partnerships, diversifying their business ventures, and leveraging their existing content. The department also provides touring support for clients and houses the podcast division.
Since the acquisition of A3’s departments, Gersh has continued to grow its
Kate Middleton and Prince William are unlikely to ever forgive Meghan Markle and Prince Harry as they have caused such deep personal wounds according to a royal expert.
Prince Harry and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin have been firm friends for well over a decade, with the Duke of Sussex even giving the Glastonbury superstar a shout-out in his 2023 memoir, Spare. They first made a public appearance together in 2014 when Chris, aged 47, penned a song for the inaugural Invictus Games. On a snapshot shared via Coldplay's Twitter account, Prince Harry, then 39, was seen in the recording studio with the band prior to the song's debut.
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Meghan Markle's latest venture into the world of artisan jam with her American Riviera Orchard lifestyle brand has royal insiders and fans alike buzzing with relief, according to commentators.The Duchess of Sussex took to Instagram to announce the launch, sending out 50 jars of her luxury jam to celebrity friends for a social media showcase.This move marks a departure from the anticipated "tell-all" book that Royal watchers were expecting Meghan to release. Emma Clifton, writer for Australian Women's Weekly, hinted that this new business direction is likely a welcome development for the Royal Family.
There have been several attempts to compare Meghan Markle with the late Diana, Princess of Wales ever since her and Prince Harry's relationship became public knowledge.These comparisons reached boiling point following the release of investigative journalist Tom Bower's controversial book 'Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors' last year. One of the most striking claims was how Harry reportedly hoped that Diana's two sisters and younger brother would identify the similarities between Meghan and his late mother - a fact which ended up in disappointment when they didn't. In an eyebrow-raising twist presented by Bower, he suggests that Diana's brother, Earl Spencer was requested to intervene about Harry's growing relationship with Meghan.
Following the success they experienced during their recent visit to Nigeria, it has been reported that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are eyeing up a number of other future tours to countries such as Malta and Ghana. Questioning whether the couple would be ready to undertake a world tour, royal reporter Louise Roberts told Sky News Australia: "In May, after Nigeria, and that was a successful faux royal tour for them, let's face it, Harry made the comment they want to do more of this." If a large scale tour is on the cards for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who stepped back from their roles as senior royals in 2020, they will have to wait to visit one key country, however, thanks to a very specific royal rule.
Ever since they stepped back from their roles as senior royals, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have frequently made announcements about their many personal milestones, as well as offered business updates. Something which is often pointed out, however, is the number of times that Harry and Meghan have issued these statements or planned the release of news which has coincided exactly with a high profile event for the Royal Family.This trend has seen one leading royal expert to reflect on the fact that the couple are becoming "increasingly irrelevant" as the Royal Family turn their attention to supporting those in greater need with heartfelt gestures.
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“Palace Confidential” show Friday that the Sussexes are “running out of time” to be welcomed back into the fold as working royals by Harry’s estranged family. “Time is running out to come back while his father is still King,” Eden said in reference to King Charles III, who became monarch in 2022 after Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have experienced "the biggest plummet in popularity in history" since stepping down as working royals in January 2020. Going from being the Royal Family's main attraction to selling jam in the US, according to Royal expert Hilary Fordwich. Speaking to Express.co.uk, the US-based commentator suggested that the Sussexes' controversial exit from the Royal Family was due to 'Meghan not wanting to be number two to Kate.' She stated: "It is the biggest plummet in popularity in history.To have gone from the number one most popular royals after the Queen, Harry has now gone to just above Prince Andrew." They added: "That plummeting was by choice.
Daily Mail, it makes “infinite commercial sense for Meghan’s first product to be a wine,” saying it’ll net her far more money than other, cheaper items. “As a product, wines are far more aspirationally marketable -— not to mention financially lucrative — than humble jam,” the publication states. Markle has previously hinted she’ll be selling jars of jam from her American Riviera Orchard collection.
Ever since Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, relocated to the US in 2020, their relationships with senior members of the Royal Family have been publicly strained. As a result, the couple and their two young children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, have spent very little time in the UK with the Windsor side of the family, particularly with their grandfather, King Charles. This, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond says, is something which is causing Archie and Lilibet to suffer as she expresses her hope that Harry will not continue to follow Meghan's example when it comes to family quarrels.
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Selena Kuznikov Samsung Ads’ VP and Head of Sales & Operations, Michael Scott, says there is an insatiable appetite for content—something that the company’s streaming service, Samsung TV Plus, can help relieve. Scott sat down alongside Melissa Wasserman, Samsung’s Head of Marketing to discuss marketing strategies and innovation at the Variety Studio presented by Canva. “It’s a great marriage when you find the intersection of what really works well for your consumers and… what really works well for advertisers,” Scott said.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are intent on keeping their children, Archie and Lilibet, away from the public eye, with a royal expert suggesting that fans "won't see the kids again".
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's friend, polo player Nacho Figueras, has come under fire from the public for posting about the Duchess of Sussex's products as Kate Middleton returned to the public eye. On Friday night, Figueras shared a picture of a pot of jam from Markle’s budding lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, on his Instagram stories, along with a photo of a jar of dog biscuits, according to People magazine.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been urged to stop “monetizing” their links to the Windsor clan if they ever want to be welcomed back into the royal fold.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have clung onto their royal titles despite sensationally quitting royal life in 2020.Soon after settling down in Montecito, California, the duo signed on the dotted line for a series of tell-all projects, each of which revealed bombshell details about the ongoing rift between both camps.And according to royal correspondent Russell Myers, the Sussexes won’t be welcomed back into the royal family anytime soon if they don’t change their ways.“Members from the royal family have told Harry, if he wants a relationship with the rest of the family, then first and foremost, he has got to stop talking about them,” he told Sky News Australia.“They can’t go about making money off their associations with the royal family.“They’re going to [have to] sort of realize, if they’re going to have a relationship with the rest of the royal family, they can’t go about trashing them,” Myers continued.Still, he noted that the Firm is very much “united without them” — despite the repeated digs from across the pond.“Hopefully, they’ll see that the royal family are very united without them, and if they do want a relationship, going forward, they need to take the steam out of their relationship and out of the things they say sometimes,” he added.Last week, it was reported that King Charles had “directly” asked his estranged son to stop leaking personal details about the royal family’s private life.Since their trans-Atlantic move to the US, the pair have been conducting themselves as members of the royal family whether it be in business ventures or press
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