Manage and Monetise Premium Podcast Content

Podcasts for Sale
Digital Marketing Trends of Focus 2021

Podcasts

Easy-to-consume content, such as podcasts and newsletters are hugely endorsed in 2020. While podcasts can be consumed on the go, users can have newsletters thrown directly into their inboxes.

2020
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Americans listen to podcasts
According to BrandEquity, 55% of Americans now listen to podcasts, while newsletter mentions were up 14% during the lockdown.
$ 300 million
podcast advertising revenue

The podcast advertising revenue reached $708.1 million in 2019. And more importantly, 60% of listeners tended to look for a product after hearing about it in a podcast.

Manage and Sell Premium Podcast Content

2 techniques you need to ponder: free-but-hard-work or easy-but-pricey. We’ll go through them one by one.

Deliver Premium Content Manually

Tools needed:

to prevent unauthorized users from downloading your premium podcasts.

to lock your entire podcast feed

PayPal or Stripe

to collect payments

Step 1

Password Protect Podcast Feed

One-click to lock your entire podcast feed with PPWP Pro. Anyone can subscribe to that protected feed but only those with the correct password can access the content.
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Step 2

Hide Podcasts Uploaded to Your WordPress Media Library

PDA Gold gives you the power to shield unlimited WordPress MP3, MP4 files that you upload to your Media Library, pages, or posts.

Once protected, only the logged-in audience can view your podcasts. Unauthorized customers will be redirected to your 404 error page when attempting to open and download them.

Plus, PDA Gold tells Google and other search engines to not index your podcasts. You don’t need to worry your podcast links show up on search results.
Step 3

Let Users Purchase Your Podcasts via Private Download Links

Generate as many private links as you’d love to and share them with your loyal audiences.

PDA Gold protects and keeps track of these links based on the given time and number of clicks. That way, you’re free from worrying users share your podcast links with others.

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Step 4

Accept Payments Online

PayPal or Stripe are the simplest ways to take payments. However, they have no integration with your podcast feed. That means you have to send the passwords to paying subscribers manually.

Sell Premium Podcasts with Membership Sites

Tools needed:

Membership Plugins

to build a membership site
to integrate PDA Gold with membership plugins
to control podcast sharing
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Step 1

Create a Membership Site with Membership Plugins

Use Paid Membership Pro, WooCommerce Memberships, WooCommerce Subscriptions, etc. to build your membership site. They’ll help you automatically create subscriptions, handle monthly payments, and manage access to the membership content.

The only trade-off is that they can’t completely control file and link sharing. That’s why we need PDA Gold and its Membership Integration extension.
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Step 2

Grant Podcast Access to Specific User Roles

Leverage your podcasts by grant premium podcast access to different member tiers and specific user roles only. That way, you invest once but can earn more with your podcasts.
Next, creating multiple private access links, letting users download, but can’t reshare them.

Podcasts for Sale 2021
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