Half the podcasts in my queue have suddenly become paid subscriptions. Meanwhile the overall industry is losing listeners. Seems like a lousy business model to not offer a free with ads feed. What a bizarre trend.

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2023/2/9/23592684/decline-of-podcasts#:~:text=Monthly listenership to podcasts seems,podcasts has fallen as well.

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2022/03/28/monthly-podcast-listening-is-down-for-the-first-time-in-almost-a-decade-according-to-study

  • bearded_zero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    813·
    11 months ago

    What if we had an easy way for listeners to “throw bits”, “gift subs”, or “send super chats” to the shows they are listing to?

    This is what podcasting 2.0 tries to do. It’s one of the few good uses for Bitcoin that I have found.

    You can stream small pieces of bitcoin to the show per min (67 SATS/min ~ $0.0180 USD = over 60 mins is 4020 SATS ~ $1.07 USD) or send a boost that attaches a message to an amount of you choosing allowing to you give feedback almost like sending chat messages to a streamer on Twitch/Youtube.

    The podcaster can see a timestamp and what episode you were listening to at the time so they know the context. There’s a lot more to Podcasting 2.0 than that but here’s links for more info.

    Here is JupiterBroadcasting take on this: https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/boost/

    9to5Mac did an article on it: https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/26/podcasting-2-0/

    Here is info from the driving force behind Podcast 2.0:

    http://adam.curry.com/html/WhatIsPodcasting20-28mcN0CfHFRjZRpkjpSf56jDCkMjTb.html

    Lastly here is a link to get podcast apps that support the podcasting 2.0 standard: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/value4value

    • reddig33@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      A lot of podcasts have Patreon accounts, which I’m totally fine with. I think it’s a good model. But I’m not subscribing to yet another service to access a single podcast that I’m only sort of interested in.

      • bearded_zero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        That’s the problem I have. I can just yeet a few SATS while I’m listing not be forced to subscribe to something. It’s all about allowing the people to make the things they love and share it with the people that love it.