“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
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There are still platform exclusive podcasts, like on Spotify, but they don't seem too prevalent. Podcasters seem to make most of their dough either through advertising sections, or having supporter exclusive feeds.
I wonder if podcast piracy is a thing.
Universe Today, a space news podcast and website, gets almost all their funding through patreon, and without many "exclusive" feeds. Mostly it's personal Q&As and an ad free feed.
It's a bit of a rare beast, but their goal is to completely end advertising, and go all listener funding, and they claim they're close.
They're my favourite podcast. I support them heavily on Patreon. So much solid content.
The german podcast landscape is basically compleatly donation based, almost no advertisement.
The same goes for a lot of YouTube channels.
In fact, I opened a Patreon account just to show a little monthly support for an excellent, criminally underrated creator of videos on astronomy and its' history, ParallaxNick.Among other topics, the guy recently finished a four-part series on Galileo, a two-parter on Kepler before that, a single on Copernicus before that. By my calculations, I'm guessing a six-part masterpiece on Newton is right around the corner.
I mean, the only podcasts I've ever supported through patreon were small operations, most of them already didn't have ads, and their paid feeds were mostly just them bullshitting on microphone.
QAnonAnonymous is also the same. I've been listening for 3-4 years now and never once heard an ad. They get their funding from patreon too
In fact, exclusive podcasts have been performing really badly recently. That's why there have been a ton of layoffs in media - it turns out people won't voluntarily trap themselves in walled gardens.
If Apple users could read, they would be mad!
I don’t know if this counts, but I have the Waking Up podcast subscriber RSS feed, just googled for it. That said, Im pretty sure if you write an email to Harris stating you can’t afford it right now but would like to listen anyway, you will get it free anyway. At least the app is like that, but IIRC that has been his method for the podcast too.
AntennaPod on Android or Kasts on Linux and always RSS! I was very happy to see Spotify has failed in its attempt to grab the podcast market.
Does AntennaPod do podcasting 2.0?
It's a listed app here, so I guess so: https://podcasting2.org/apps
Yes you can pretty easily selfhost sync for AntennaPod and Kasts with https://github.com/bohwaz/micro-gpodder-server (there are more official options that are heaver)
Thanks, good to know. At the moment I'm just plugging my phone into my computer and passing .opml files around which feels fine for the moment... and very secure.
Pocket Casts did some update I didn't like so I switched to Podcast Republic and haven't looked back. I do have Spotify Premium aswell but that is and always will be for music only.
What did they change that you didn't like? I have used it for years. I'm not looking to switch but I'm curious to know what made you switch.
Y'all y'all check it, I just found the new revolutionary radical technology! They're called jpegs! No one company can control them, they're too powerful! /s
What a load of shit...