It's not about people paying to listen to podcasts. Podcasts have to become the new radio. The definition of podcast is an RSS feed with a link pointing to an a

It's not about people paying to listen to podcasts. Podcasts have to become the new radio. The definition of podcast is an RSS feed with a link pointing to an audio file. Additional metadata has to be inserted into that standard with a link to an advertising agent (meaning an entity that will allocate payment per stream) and a link to the appropriate payment processing agent. And of course software must be updated to process that information. In short you need advertising-supported podcasts that will pay per listen.