The announcement was initially met with criticism from fans, many of whom said that they would refuse to download Spotify just to listen to the podcast, despite Beckett’s assurances that the show would remain free to listen to and be released on the same schedule. Although the rest of Keep It Light Media’s portfolio has also joined the audio giant, the rest of the shows continued to be distributed across other podcast platforms while only Parenting Hell became exclusive to Spotify. Spotify’s exclusivity contract with Parenting Hell was announced at the end of last year after the podcast's parent production company Keep It Light Media joined Spotify’s hosting platform Megaphone. However, the episode has now been removed from third-party platforms, and a Spotify source has confirmed to PodPod that the episode was uploaded to wider RSS feeds by accident, and that the show remains exclusive to its platform.

One user tweeted, “Either you have stuck it to the corporation or michael f*cked up”. Fans of the show took to Twitter to share their confusion, with some speculating that the pair may have decided to leave their Spotify exclusivity contract.

This morning, Season 6, Episode 17 of the show could be downloaded on podcast platforms besides Spotify, including Amazon Music, Global Player, PocketCasts, and Podcast Addict.

Parenting Hell, the chart-topping comedy podcast hosted by Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe, has accidentally published its latest episode across all platforms for the first time since it became exclusive to Spotify in November 2022.

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