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A la carte is annoying when everyone starts doing it. Subscription fatigue is already setting in for music and video streaming services. No reason the podcast s
by NetOpWibby 7y ago
A la carte is annoying when everyone starts doing it. Subscription fatigue is already setting in for music and video streaming services. No reason the podcast space would be different.
Still, kudos to Tim for trying.
- falcolas 7y agoA la carte works remarkably well with Patreon. Personally I support 11 different video, podcast, and writers. Perhaps that’s the real takeaway: make it easy to do a la carte, and people will.
- mcbits 7y agoIt works well for Patreon, but Patreon content creator earnings seem to follow the same power law that afflicts much of the economy. Almost nobody makes more than a couple bucks until they have network effects strong enough to fuel orders of magnitude higher earnings outside of Patreon with traditional (annoying) merch/advertising. That's not to shit on Patreon. I think it's the right idea but still far from effective enough to consider creative funding a "solved problem" yet.
- em-bee 7y agoactually it doesn't work as well for patreon as they'd like because these small transactions still cost to much. banks charge you through the nose for them, so they take a share of the profit here.