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Might I humbly suggest supporting creators who offer paid, ad-free feeds? Full disclosure, my employer facilitates offering paid private feeds to podcast audie
by paulryanrogers 4y ago
Might I humbly suggest supporting creators who offer paid, ad-free feeds?
Full disclosure, my employer facilitates offering paid private feeds to podcast audiences.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoI love paying for content like that (when the content is good of course). It’s one of the few mediums where some creators allow me to be in control of how they monetize my viewership. It drives me crazy that on YouTube I pay for premium and still need to sidestep ads. It makes sense; the creators don’t get paid directly from my membership and if they did it would be fractions of pennies. But that’s the problem; I want to support them directly. The platform is nice, but it’s mostly fungible. The excellent content often isn’t. I think an hour+ podcast is absolutely valuable. Some are incredibly thoughtful and well-produced. I hope more podcasters adopt this model!
- weberer 4y agoI don't know why this comment is grey. It's a reasonable idea.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoApparently I escaped the grey! Thanks for the vote of confidence. It’s always strange to see grey comments with no responses explaining why anyone disagrees. In some cases it’s clear – maybe someone appears to be a troll or something. In this case I wonder why someone would downvote me for wanting to support content creators. It isn’t a perfect analogy but it seems that selling software to users is something a lot of us here can get behind – wouldn’t we want our users to want to support us? Maybe I’m missing something though.
- weberer 4y agoHow would I find these feeds?
- paulryanrogers 4y agoGenerally shows will have a free version, often with ads or less content, which explain where to go to get their premium feeds. Alternatively some platforms now have their own proprietary ways, like Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
- cxr 4y agoSpotify "podcasts" aren't really podcasts at all.