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Podcasting Goes Pay-to-Play

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-fans-and-make-em-pay dept.

James Draven writes "For the last year, people have been wondering - how to make money off podcasts? Some have dabbled with advertising, some with user donations, but now the most popular podcast on iTunes is moving to a subscription model. Bit-Tech is reporting that the Ricky Gervais Show will cost $7 a month starting next week."

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  1. Who the fuck is Ricky Gervais? by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sounds like LiL Jimmys younger brother with super aids

    OK TERRIFIC!

  2. Re:pod casts by doorbender · · Score: 0, Troll

    dumb it down and give it a catchy name and all the tech illiterate will be logging onto DARPA in a few years thanks to Al Gore.

    using Roger Wilco, Rainbow Six (and other game) players had realtime voice communications in 1999 over dialup. now any T,D and H can buy a videogame system with that capability built in.

    People that took the time to learn what ftp and hotmetal was have been sharing images over the net for years. you remember when you could tell if a page was designed on a Mac or a PC by the absence or presence of an l. Now digital cameras can take pictures and the imgs can be uploaded without the picture taker even knowing what a jpg, or what a resolution is.

    Techies have been sharing homemade audio files for years, but it took linking an incredibly convenient mainstream mythologised overpriced audio player to bring it to the illiterates attention.

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    "He's a real midnight golfer"
  3. get real by weierstrass · · Score: 0, Troll

    noone wants to hear your podcast not even your 'friends' and family.
    if you could admit this to yourself, you'd be happy hosting it publicly to watch noone subscribe.
    you might as well host it on /dev/null

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    my password really is 'stinkypants'
  4. Hmblrr by Sippan · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll never charge anything for my podcast. And I'm not just saying that because it's called "The Worst Podcast In The World", I wouldn't charge for it even if I thought I could. Seriously. Because I'm a lefty hairy commie pinko, and proud of it!

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    Frog blast the vent core.