Patreon Partnership With Acast
Patreon, and Acast, announced a collaboration to enable creators to publish subscriber-only content on multiple podcasting platforms.
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Updated November 2026. This was first published on 24 November 2020. The idea is the same. Any number below is what the original piece said then. It is not a new count.
Key takeaways
- Patreon, and Acast, announced a collaboration to enable creators to publish subscriber-only content on multiple podcasting platforms.
- The partnership will also allow the creators to securely distribute their paywalled and free content in a simple manner.
- On the other hand, fans will be in a better position to support the Patreon creators financially.
Patreon, and Acast, announced a collaboration to enable creators to publish subscriber-only content on multiple podcasting platforms. The partnership will also allow the creators to securely distribute their paywalled and free content in a simple manner. On the other hand, fans will be in a better position to support the Patreon creators financially. This works in a variety of podcast players, but it’s not available on Spotify.
Patreon #
This is the leading membership platform in the world that tends to link creators with their top fans and gives these fans a chance to become paying patrons or members of their valued creators. It was cofounded in 2013 by Sam Yam and Jack Conte, a YouTube star. They believe that creators in the current digital world should be paid for their work. Being one of the favorite places for creators, Patreon allows its creators to have an ongoing and predictable income every month. The creators can also expand their careers in producing podcasts, online videos, music, visual art, game streams, fiction, and photography. There are over 6 million patrons in Patreon, supporting more than 200 000 creators who have earned an estimate of over $2 billion.
Acast #
Acast is the podcasting giant that globally powers creators, listeners, and advertisers. Swedish Johan Billgren founded it in 2014, and its team of audio lovers has created an open and sustainable ecosystem making sure the whole world is growing. It provides sophisticated services that are continuously updated with new innovative tools and what it does. Acast is widely known to host over 20,000, to monetize and growing top shows globally, and also podcasts from publishers from CBC, BBC, Financial Times, Complex, PBS Newshour, Huffpost, and Vice. In the past six years, Acast has generated about $100 million for podcasters worldwide.
Many podcasts paywalls are either limited or clunky. This is why Acast had to launch technology that enabled publishers to produce paywalled episodes that can be accessed by the listeners on any podcast app. Although Patreon supports the creation of subscriber-only RSS feed, exclusive content is the most significant benefit that any podcaster can offer their members.
How Patreon Is Targeting Podcasters With This Partnership #
The integration of Acast with Patreon will make it easier to distribute private podcasts. This joining of forces allows the distribution of the content to the listeners? preferred apps such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Acast app, overcast, and pocket casts. Podcaster will be publishing their content through a private patron-only RSS feed.
The Patreon members that usually charge for access to the podcast feed will now give each listener a private RSS feed. This link is to be used by the listener in a podcast player of their own choice. If somebody clicks the link when they are not a patron, they can simply sign up. But if they’re patrons, their membership will be authenticated then directed to a listening experience that will allow them to subscribe through their preferred podcast app. They will access the patron-only feed and all free content in public feeds.
This process is manual and unsophisticated, resulting in many fans suppressing their subscriptions. they will still have the links to the shows. RSS copy-pasting is not a secure deal, and for that reason, the process has been streamlined through the integration of Acast’s access technology with Patreon. This ensures that the content stays exclusive and patrons across various memberships get patron-only, unique, and highly secure podcast feeds to minimize piracy risk.
Creators will manage both their public and private feeds from one place with the upgrade plan. It gives the podcasters a big-time opportunity to access insights and data about their listeners and how they engage with the content. They get strong insights and data about all of their content, not excluding the listener demographics, performance insights, audience growth, and more.
Acast is the only company compliant with all its four measurement standards, compliant with the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau), and provides creators with the best podcast analytics. This is simply a game-changer in the podcasting market to reach a considerable number of patrons. We can say that Patreon was fantastic, but when it’s combined with the RSS security of Acast, it’s fabulous.
Patreon is focusing on creating a better ecosystem where creators can deeply connect with their audiences and alter their creativity valuation. Acast and Patreon share one primary goal of helping these creators to financially benefit from their art by earning a sustainable income. The director of creator success at Patreon, Brian Keller, claimed that their partnership with Acast would make it easier for podcasters to cultivate their communities through the deliverance of exclusive content to their top fans as podcasting progresses to be one of the vast creator categories on Patreon.
Features And The Potential Ad Revenue Opportunity From The Partnership #
Podcasters will have to pay for access to features such as unlimited episodes and downloads or customizable podcast websites, but the basics features are free. Hosting all the shows of Patreon users in Acast’s servers is a great deal because of more podcast data access. This collaboration deal will set other monetization opportunities like selling ads in Patreon podcasters? shows, which will enable the creators to make money. The ad business is currently flourishing in the podcasting platforms, although Acast and Patreon haven’t talked about the potential deal.
The technology will be launched for all podcasters this month. This follows a private beta that involved high profile creators such as 90 Day Gays and Sleep With Me, that participated within the past months.
We hope that usage will increase with this partnership, but nobody is forced to into it. The transition process should also be smooth for the podcasters switching to Acast without prompting the listeners to subscribe to new feeds. Podcasters can now smooth distribute patron-only content through Acast technology to their audience in any listening platform. This partnership could result in many podcasters joining Patreon and also creating support for the podcasters to earn a living from their artwork.
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What is the main point? #
Patreon, and Acast, announced a collaboration to enable creators to publish subscriber-only content on multiple podcasting platforms.
What else did the original piece say? #
The partnership will also allow the creators to securely distribute their paywalled and free content in a simple manner.