http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/14/whats-the-cost-of-bandwidth/ Doug Kaye's Weblog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/14/whats-the-cost-of-bandwidth/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Brandon Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:26:30 +0000 http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2004/12/14/whats-the-cost-of-bandwidth/#comment-228 Incidentally, you yourself have on the order of 10,000 listeners, though your greatest expenses are from travel. As you said, your model is similar to any other podcaster model. Personally, I think podcasting works best by dividing listeners into three groups. For first-time visitors (i.e. non-registered users), access should be easy and donations voluntary (and there should be links to donate next to the link for the stream). For regular listeners, there are those who can pay, and would likely want to pay (i.e. subscribe) based on the average amount of content they listen to, and for those who can't, sponsorship at the beginning and end of every stream would work best. I think this division fits well with the internet culture. (BTW, I did read the wiki business model page.) Incidentally, you yourself have on the order of 10,000 listeners, though your greatest expenses are from travel. As you said, your model is similar to any other podcaster model. Personally, I think podcasting works best by dividing listeners into three groups. For first-time visitors (i.e. non-registered users), access should be easy and donations voluntary (and there should be links to donate next to the link for the stream). For regular listeners, there are those who can pay, and would likely want to pay (i.e. subscribe) based on the average amount of content they listen to, and for those who can’t, sponsorship at the beginning and end of every stream would work best. I think this division fits well with the internet culture. (BTW, I did read the wiki business model page.)

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