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The incentives are also not aligned here. You make money if there's more ads in the podcasts. In a world where there's no ads, your company wont exist. So at s
by bitpush 1y ago
The incentives are also not aligned here. You make money if there's more ads in the podcasts. In a world where there's no ads, your company wont exist.
So at some point, you'll have to start prioritizing making money ("proving your worth to users") and will start to make sure there are more ads in the podcasts, so that you can remove them.
And that is a lose-lose scenario. You will end up directly contributing to more ads in the podcast. This is called a second order effect.
- fxuniverse 1y agoIn a world with no cancer, oncologists won't exist. Should they stop what they're doing now?
- bitpush 1y agoI know this is a flippant response, so I'll side step that and address the issue you're getting at. You make money by solving an inefficiency. "Payments on the web is hard. We'll make it easy" -> Stripe. "It is hard to get a taxi" -> Uber. "The legal system is hard to navigate" -> Lawyers. --- If your value prop is, people dont like listening to ads. The right approach is to offer subscriptions to ad-free podcasts. Buy our service for $x / mo and get ad free podcasts. But that wont be "ad blocking"
- fxuniverse 1y agoThat's exactly what we offer - ad free feeds.
- bitpush 1y agoYou dont offer anything :) I cant copy/paste your website and rehost it on my domain (and remove ads or whatever) and claim that I'm doing everyone a favor. There's a word for it - and it is called stealing.