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.
Serious question: what is the content people create that is so costly today?
I mean it’s nice if you can live off your hobby expertise but there’s also a question about monetising like everything? Or what am I missing :-) ?
This applies to people that create across any craft. I guess my question to you would be:
“Why do you believe you are entitled to the efforts of their hobby for free?”. If the creator is choosing to give it away for free, and you’re consuming it for free then everyone is happy.
However if the hobbyist is choosing to charge for the content, your choice to pay for it or stop consuming it. Just because they were doing it for free at one point doesn’t obligate them to do it forever for free if they don’t want to. You can lament that you don’t have it for free anymore of course, but getting upset with the creator because you’re not getting it for free seems very entitled. That creator doesn’t owe you anything.
I pay for it by being part of a community where we all try to help, as good as we can.
Can’t you see that the big ones are the ones monetising it all? This idea that everything should be monetized is because they want you to work for them so that instead of helping out someone on a forum for free, you could join this new platform where you can, eventually, earn money, but it would most probably not make you rich but some shareholder.
That also puts pressure on people not helping for free anymore, which the big platforms love, so they can sell that free advice instead…
Well, that’s how I see things.
I pay for it by being part of a community where we all try to help, as good as we can.
Can I get some clarification of which thing we’re talking about? I’m reading the thread about podcasters that were formerly making podcasts for free, and are now charging. That was what my response was to.
Your comments about being part of a community seem to talk about something else. Sure, there are plenty of hobbyist forums where everyone contributions and we all consume the results. That’s very different to a podcaster taking the time to research their topic, write a script, go through all the effort of recording, editing, and maintaining all the production infrastructure and promotion of the podcast.
Are you still talking about podcasts or community driven content on forums?
It was you who started screaming about me not wanting to pay for stuff lol.
Whatever, keep paying if you can’t find like-minded people I guess.
