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Why I’m Stopping the Fan-Supported Podcast Experiment
I traded $30,000/month of podcast ad income for $0. I felt like a loser at first, but it ended up transforming my entire holding company.
Short term pain for long term gain.
Let me explain...
My podcast had been successfully running ads for a year, interviewing... See more
GREG ISENBERGx.com𝕏 is the Internet’s dive bar. The drinks have always been cheap, the bathroom faucet perpetually broken, and the whole place has changed ownership multiple times at this point. Ultimately, it’s where groups of friends go to hang out regularly, and that aspect compensates for its rough edges. But you can’t act surprised when a fight breaks... See more
John Cooganx.comWhat’s interesting about newsletters is that consumers are willing to pay for them. While blogs have never really figured out monetization (apart from ads), Substack alone claims more than 50,000 paying subscribers.
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It’s becoming increasingly common to monetize podcasts via a direct connection with listeners, whether via merchandise, donations, live events, or bonus or ad-free content. Big networks and publishers are doing it (e.g., Wondery Plus, Stitcher Premium, Slate Plus) and independent creators are too (via Patreon, Memberful, or other solutions).
Caroline Crampton • Open or closed: Who will control the paid-podcast experience, podcasters or tech companies?
Though “Breaking Points” makes some money from podcast and YouTube ads, the bulk of the revenue comes from a premium-subscription model. If you subscribe at a cost of ten dollars a month, or a hundred dollars for a full year, you gain access to an uncut version of each episode, free of ads, in both audio and video formats.