Amazon and Wondery will air the SmartLess one week earlier than episodes hit different audio platforms, beginning on August 1st. Amazon is paying as a lot as $80 million for the three-year deal, studies.

Actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes created and host SmartLess, by which they chat with one other well-known particular person. The gimmick is that one of many hosts invitations on a visitor whose id stays a thriller to the others till the dialog begins. Guests to this point embody Vice President Kamala Harris, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Stacey Abrams, Stephen Colbert, Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney.

SmartLess will initially be out there on Amazon Music and Wondery+, and it will be ad-free on the latter. Wondery will deal with advert gross sales and advertising and marketing for the present. The deal additionally provides Amazon and Wondery the proper to companion with future podcasts from the SmartLess crew. 

This is one more main deal for a single podcast. Earlier this month, Spotify scooped up the rights to , reportedly for round $20 million a 12 months. Spotify has shelled out a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} on different podcast offers, together with ones with , and . Amazon additionally has , comparable to exhibits with Will Smith and DJ Khaled. It purchased the final 12 months.