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6yr ago

?makers Would love to pay for my favorite podcasts and some of them already moved to Luminary. But... Luminary is not available in continental Europe. So these podcasts are now gone for us. Why?

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5yr ago

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Raising $100M and locking in exclusives with folks like Guy Raz, Lena Dunham, and Noah Trevor is one way to "brute force" a way into podcast subscriptions. @jason wrote about this exact strategy two years ago here. I'm happy to see more experimentation in this space although my worry is that podcasts will start to resemble the fragmentation we see in TV and film, where consumers are pulled to subscribe to Spotify, Apple, Luminary, etc. to get access to their favorite podcasts (which used to all be free and available on every platform using RSS – NYT Daily and Gimlet's Reply All are not available on Luminary). Curious to hear others POV on this. Will you subscribe to Luminary? Why or why not? 🤔

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6yr ago

John Doherty

Credo

@jason @rrhoover I agree, feels like a brute force effort. At the end of the day, this sort of business is all about distribution. Getting it started is obviously the hardest part, but imo they need to really go deep on content and having enough that people care. They’re competing against the entrenched platforms already. Apple Podcasts sucks, sure, but we use it and are used to it. I use Spotify for podcasts too but still find myself on Apple Podcasts even tho Spotify is a better experience and is just a different app on my phone, and I’ve paid for it from US Day 1 Launch. I think to really take on those incumbents, this needs to be 10x+ better. I don’t think it’s there yet but I’m rooting for the team.

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6yr ago

David Kofoed Wind

@jason @rrhoover While I agree that fragmentation will be annoying, I think there is room in the market for this. I don't mind paying $8 / month to avoid ads, and based on the value I get out of podcasts, and the number of hours a month I spend listening to them I think paying a bit for high quality content is fine. For me, podcasts are similar to Audiobooks in the type of value I get from it and I don't mind spending $15 on a book for my Kindle or Audible.

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6yr ago

JustCast

@jason @rrhoover @dohertyjf I mostly use OverCast

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6yr ago

Luminary

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