Raising venture capital is daunting. Almost weekly, an incredible entrepreneur reaches out to me for advice because they’re having trouble getting traction with investors for their seed round. They read stories on Tech Twitter about billions of dollars swashing around Sand Hill Road, VCs battling to wire $5 million dollars…

(Re-published from October 29, 2019 on the glow.fm blog) We are no longer charging to process payments at Glow. Starting today, if you use Glow only to collect listener support, you will pay credit card processing fees, and nothing more. Podcasts make our lives better. They encourage us to engage…

The 5 Most Shared Podcasts, from Refer-o-Matic The Refer-O-Matic beta launched one month ago. These five podcasts have been shared the most. One reason we’re excited about Refer-O-Matic is that we love podcasts. And, we love to tell our friends about our favorites. That holy s*** moment that makes you…

TLDR: Glow helps podcasters build their businesses. We do that by bringing modern tools to podcasting where they don’t exist yet. We started with memberships. Now, we’re dropping a tool for referrals. You can try it out here. Nineteen months ago, we launched Glow to help podcasters make money by…

For the last three weeks, our team at Glow has been cooking up a project alongside some friends in the podcasting community and a nonprofit called GiveDirectly. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to find a way to make a positive contribution in the context of something we…

The podcast industry is hot right now. With one-third of Americans listening monthly, podcast ad revenue is expected to cross $500 million this year and predicted to hit $1 billion by 2021. Most measurements of the size of the podcast industry only take into account ad spend, but podcasts are…

We are no longer charging to process payments at Glow. Starting today, if you use Glow only to collect listener support, you will pay credit card processing fees, and nothing more. Podcasts make our lives better. They encourage us to engage deeply and thoughtfully with the topic at hand, and…

Yesterday, Tim Ferriss announced a six-month experiment: he’ll stop taking sponsors for his podcast, and switch to a donation-only model. Tim cited two reasons for this shift: 1) sponsorship takes a lot of time, and 2) fans are constantly looking for ways to support the show. Full-disclosure: I founded Glow…

Conversations have been bubbling recently about idea of a “Netflix” for podcasts. Much of the media is getting tired of advertising-supported content, and we’re seeing increasing movement towards direct consumer-monetization by charging subscriptions (see Memberful and Substack). Could podcasting grow by charging for premium content? It’s tough to know; Apple’s…