Sam Sethi: How To TrueFans.FM
- Matt Cundill
- 4 hours ago
- 1 min read
TrueFans.fm founder Sam Sethi is forward thinking about podcasting. Sam explains how True Fans grew out of the podcasting 2.0 movement into a full creator marketplace where podcasters can host audio and video, build real fan communities, and earn through value-for-value models, including micro payments, subscriptions, and one-off episode payments.
Sam Sethi walks me through how True Fans removes friction for listeners with a built-in virtual wallet, gamified SATs, and simple top-ups using Stripe, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, while handling all the complex bits in the background. On the hosting side, we dig into why downloads are a broken metric and how True Fans uses streaming and six-second packets to deliver rich consumption analytics. Sam also previews what’s coming next: live streaming, co-listening, chat, creator portals, custom domains, and AI/voice interfaces that aim to give creators more control than Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.
Whether you are a creator or a podcast listener, please get involved with TrueFans.fm
You can hear Sam on the Podnews Weekly Review with James Cridland.
Speaking of James - it's time to fill out the Podnews Report Card - James is really good about sharing the results with some of podcasting's Big Dogs.
And video is a thing when it comes Truefans.fm and video - so here is our video of the epiosde. We will do our best to get it into TrueFans.fm so we can check out our numbers.
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