Listener Support by Anchor Product Information and Latest Updates (2025)

Visavis

That's awesome. I love the innovation Anchor is bringing to podcasts. Is there a potential for something like automatically skipping ads if you're a supporter of a podcast? That's something I've been very excited about for way too long

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7yr ago

Ildi Xhaholli

I didn’t see any mention of when this would roll out to creators outside of the US. I’m sure many people will be asking about this...

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7yr ago

Señor Humble

ah so it's only US right now -- what if one of us in the UK and one in the US, can we get the account upgraded seeing as she is stateside? :) -- hmmm, i was so excited about this, surely STRIPE is a global worldwide product no?

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7yr ago

Ildi Xhaholli

@philcampbell i'm wondering the same and am a bit surprised at how unclear this announcement was regarding creators outside of the US.

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7yr ago

Señor Humble

@madebyildi i would'nt be surprised. it's normal for a US startup to push to a US audience first of all because of financial assets and time scale for roll out, also you don't want to roll out to the world first that's inviting a ton of work for customer support etc, you do a soft roll out first :)

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7yr ago

Ildi Xhaholli

@philcampbell I was mostly referring to the ambiguity and lack of clarity in informing creators outside of the US when this feature would be available for their regions. The description of this announcement reads "Starting today, any podcaster..." which is kind of misleading imo. Even their medium post fails to provide any insight about availability of Listener Support in regions outside of the US.

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7yr ago

Hereripene Baker

@madebyildi @philcampbell OHHH!!! hey there!!!

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7yr ago

Mike Mignano

Family Dinner Planner

Maker

Hi! I'm Mike, CEO and Co-Founder of Anchor. At Anchor, our mission has always meant more than just making it easy for people to make podcasts. We’ve also always had aspirations to help people make money from their work, too. Previously, this was a real challenge for most creators: Unless your show became big enough for podcast network who could sell your show to advertisers, your options for getting paid were very limited. For independent podcasters, there was no straight forward way to get paid for your work. Today we're making that way easier with Listener Support, which lets your listeners opt into automatic monthly payments to support your hard work. Any creator in the US can activate it to start receiving these contributions from their listeners. Once you activate it, a Listener Support button will be added to your public Anchor profile. Best of all, it will also add a link in your show notes on every app or website where your podcast is available, so your listeners can sign up to support you from anywhere (like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify), even if they don’t have an Anchor account. I'm happy to answer any questions here about Listener Support or Anchor in general. Thanks!

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7yr ago

Riley Walz

Hopscotch

@mignano Hey Mike! This looks really cool. I'm wondering if you will roll out a premium podcast feature, where listeners have to pay to access the podcast from the start. Cheers!

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7yr ago

PratipRaj

@mignano Hey Mike. This is really cool. I must say Anchor enabled me to start my own Podcast and I'm really happy that with this step Anchor is reaching new heights with Podcasting. Only sad part for me is that "Listener Support" is only for US but not for India. Please do make it available for many other countries which will be of great help. Cheers and All the best.

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7yr ago

Mike Mignano

Family Dinner Planner

Maker

@w Hey Riley, thanks! Great question. We're considering all of the ways we can help creators generate revenue from their podcast, and the one you mentioned is definitely one of them. We felt it were best to start by making it as easy as possible for creators and by not introducing additional work for them (e.g. making exclusive content to put behind a paywall). Our learnings from Listener Support will absolutely inform our monetization decisions in the future!

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7yr ago

Mike Mignano

Family Dinner Planner

Maker

@pratiptalks Thanks! I'm very happy to hear that Anchor made it easy for yor to make a podcast, and appreciate all of your kind words. We're absolutely doing our best to bring Listener Support to creators all over the world. I don't have a concrete timeline for this year but I assure you it that we'd love to bring the feature to India as soon as possible. Thanks again!

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7yr ago

PratipRaj

@mignano Thank you very much. That's so kind of you.

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7yr ago

Listener Support by Anchor

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