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Semi related, I find it fun to look at patreon top creator stats, which includes a lot of podcasts: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators https://graphtre
by centimeter 6y ago
Semi related, I find it fun to look at patreon top creator stats, which includes a lot of podcasts: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators
Notable are Chapo Trap House, a communist/socialist podcast making nearly $2M a year, and Cum Town, a low production value comedy podcast pulling in almost $700k.
- petercooper 6y agoI spent some time looking into this business model a while ago and most of the top podcasts on Patreon simply have loyal subscriber bases and then offer a bonus show each week/month for $3-5 a month and thousands sign up because of FOMO/being fans. It seems to work really well. A similar scheme has worked in the screencast space as well, I recall Railscasts followed a similar approach of free "shows" and then you got more of the same if you paid. It seems to work really well as a format.
- redisman 6y agoPatreon seems much better than the ads model. Maybe the next generation of tech and media companies can finally break the century old shackles of ad-driven businesses.
- pkamb 6y agoIt’s crazy that there aren’t better tools for paid podcasts. Chapo and C*town provide 2 RSS feeds. The free/paid feeds don’t show up next to each other in your podcast app because they’re named differently (dumb). No way to merge feeds in the popular podcast apps. Smart producers like Stratechery/Dithering provide individual personal RSS feeds that combine the free and paid. And deliver only the free if your subscription lapses. But those are one-off CMSs that most Patreon podcasts don’t have the means to deploy.