Pocket Casts has rolled out support for the funding tag, making it easier than ever for listeners to support their favourite podcasts.
This is an update episode, and so connects directly with a previous episode of Podcasting 2.0 in Practice.
If you are new to the subject of Podcasting 2.0, I highly recommend that you complete the Podcasting 2.0 in Practice course. This is basically a podcast series that looks at just one 2.0 feature – also known as a tag – at a time and teaches you what it is, why it’s good, and how to make it work. The course focuses specifically on how each feature can help podcasters with discovery, interactivity or monetisation – or a combination of the three.
Welcome back to Podcasting 2.0 in Practice. In this series of Holiday Homework episodes,
Claire Waite Brown:
I'm bringing you a few updates to the Podcasting 2.0 features we learned about in the first series of Podcasting 2.0 in Practice. As I have mentioned before, if you are new to the subject of Podcasting 2.0, I suggest you complete the podcasting 2.0 in practice course.
This is a podcast series that looks at just one 2.0 feature at a time and teaches you what it is, why it's good, and how to make it work.
The course has a specific focus on how each feature can help podcasters with discovery, interactivity, or monetization, or a combination of the three. For this update, we're looking at the Funding feature, which was the subject of episodes 11 and 12.
The Fab News is that Pocket Casts now supports the funding tag when you are on the show screen. That is the screen that lists all of the episodes for that podcast, rather than the screen that shows the episode you might be listening to.
Under ratings, you will see a symbol representing a coin being popped into a slot. Click on this symbol to be taken to the podcaster's chosen donation platform.
If you would like to test this, feel free to do so for this show and perhaps make a donation while you're there. The symbol is the same on podverse. Click on the three dots, then support this podcast.
On Podcast Guru and on TrueFans, click on the icon of a hand with a heart above it.
It's worth noting at this point that Pocket Casts has updated their user interface design since I previously put out instructions in the homework episodes with a white background in many cases, rather than the black one you will see in chapter art in past episodes of Podcasting 2.0 in Practice.
Claire Waite Brown:
Thanks so much for listening. Visit creativityfound.co.uk/podcasting to access lots of useful podcast resources and find out more about my guests.
Click on the funding icon on any 2.0 app to make a donation to this show, or visit buymeacoffee.com/creativityfound If you'd like to get in touch, you can send a comment boost or super comment using any of the modern podcast apps we talk about in this podcast series. Or feel free to reach out to me on my Instagram account @podcasting2.0inpractice.
