![]() Private RSS feeds like the ones Anchor creates can only be accessed through a platform that supports subscriptions. ![]() Now the likes of Apple and Spotify see an opportunity to make money - podcast advertising revenue alone is expected to hit $1 billion this year - and that means out with the openness. No more openness - Until now, podcasting was pretty simple: you uploaded your show to a service like Apple Podcasts, and then a public RSS feed would be created so that listeners could simply download the show through whatever podcast app they used. Podcasters will probably want to upload their shows everywhere in the interest of reaching the most people. Apple doesn’t do that out of concern for privacy. Spotify is allowing hosts who upload through Anchor to take their subscriber email lists with them, in the event they choose to move to a different platform. The company hopes that podcasting will be big on its platform because it’ll provide a new stream of revenue beyond music, where subscription growth will eventually plateau. International options coming - Spotify says that international users will be able to sell subscriptions in the future, and they’ll be able to start subscribing to premium podcasts on September 15. Apple is charging its typical 30 percent levy on sales, though it can say that it has the most popular podcast player in the world ( for now). But Spotify is enticing podcasters with a promise that it won’t take a cut of revenue until 2023, after which it’ll only take 5 percent. Perhaps its biggest rival, Apple, has also begun allowing podcast creators to charge a fee for access to their shows. Podcast subscriptions have been offered through Spotify since April. ![]() You’ll need to upload your podcasts through Anchor, its podcast creation and distribution platform, though, after which you can sell subscriptions through both a private RSS feed (in any service that supports them) and within the Spotify app itself. Spotify is now allowing all U.S.-based podcasters to offer subscriptions to their shows and make them available on its service. ![]()
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