Monetized podcasts
436 sats \ 7 comments \ @oliverweiss 19 Dec 2023 podcasts
Hi all, I’ve been listening to a podcast by an Austrian economist in my native language and was quite happy about it until recently when the author of the podcast decided to monetize it. Now he creates his episodes in two parts: initial short one with some general statements, content of the episode, some blah blah, which is for free. The second part, the actual episode, is behind a paywall. It costs quite some money.
Of course he has full right to do so.
While I understand the argument “time is money”, I feel a bit of greed in it, I was supporting him even before with a basic membership that he introduced which is now not enough to access the podcasts, but especially because there is so much material available for free out there. Check this link for some podcasts on this topic (feel free to add you favorite podcasts) #357366
What is your attitude towards podcasts and their monetary side? Are you “rewarding” the podcasters? What platforms do you use?
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudocarlos 19 Dec 2023
Too much good, free v4v or ad-supported content to worry about paywalls. Always understand a content creator's biases and monetary incentives when considering their points of view. Pay for and support the content you want to see or it might disappear
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 20 Dec 2023
Was using Fountain but it has been unusable for months. The app just constantly crashes. It was great before then!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @MerryOscar 20 Dec 2023
Fountain 1.0 being released tomorrow which should fix all these issues!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 20 Dec 2023
Finally, awesome thanks! Looking forward to it!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @go 19 Dec 2023
I've seen some good friends of mine think they should be heavily monetized on a podcast because, I don't know, Tim Pool? Then there are LEGENDS like @Bennd77 who recorded for free for yeeeeeeeears. I think creators buy into the "I should be important and money would prove it" trap.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss OP 20 Dec 2023
Exactly! I wonder whether there are podcasters who could share with us what they think about this.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 7 Jan
No Agenda has been podcasting for 16 years. No Agenda does two 3 hour shows a week and are up to episode 1622! This is a value for value (V4V) podcast with the premium content upfront.
With No Agenda there are only two types of listeners:
  1. Producers
  2. Douche Bags
With about 2 million listeners for each episode we wish that everyone would just pitch in a few bucks but it ain't happening.
What Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak figured out early was that they just asked for your Time, Talent or Treasure. What surprised them was that some listeners would send in a few dollars and others would send in a thousand!
There is no demographic. There are no advertisers. No one to squeeze the purse.
If you become an associate or executive producer Adam and John will give you credit and they always will vouch for you if someone questions this. Hence in 2020 I became an executive producer as thousands of others have before and after me.
Other podcasters have followed this V4V process. A similar model works here on Stacker News, too. (You need a few sats to start participating.)
NOSTR of course is really shaping up nicely with content creators getting rewarded for piquing the interests of nostriches.
It's unfortunate that economists need to monetize when they may have revealed that they don't really understand the free market or what HUMAN ACTION is actually doing. Is it praxeology? Most definitely.
Check out his vest and expansive No Agenda network as an example.
99 percent of the Artwork, network (IT), website and adjacent programs are all voluntary. There are even businesses that work with No Agenda without licensing deals and there are international meetups, too!
No Agenda doesn't just show up and do podcasts. There are clips, letters, birthdays, peerage, meetups, media deconstructions, donation letters, and boots on the ground reports. Listen to the latest show of premium content for free paid for by the time, talent and treasure of producers all over the world. It's the best podcast in the universe!
https://www.noagendashow.net/listen/1622
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