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Promotions incentivise new listeners to try out your podcast for the first time, helping you grow your audience overnight. Get your latest episodes featured on the Discover page in the app. When a user plays it, they will get paid for every minute they listen.
The podcast app where it pays to listen.

Grow your podcast with Fountain Promotions

Promotions incentivise new listeners to try out your podcast for the first time, helping you grow your audience overnight. Get your latest episodes featured on the Discover page in the app. When a user plays it, they will get paid for every minute they listen.

$50

Minimum Spend

Fountain Promotions are accessible for podcasters with a limited budget

$0.08

Average Cost per Listen

Set the price for your ads based on how much you want users to earn

How to get started

Claim your show on Fountain

To create a promotion you must claim your show on Fountain. In just a couple of clicks your show will be added to the Lightning Network and you're ready to go.

Choose your audio creative

Form your Show page you can promote your latest episode or a specific episode from your back catalogue.

Set your budget and max earnings

80% of your promotion budget gets paid back directly to listeners. You can set the max earnings as high as you want and as low as 100 sats per listen (that's around $0.02).

Purchase your promotion

Pay with a credit or debit card, or Apple Pay. You can't pay with bitcoin yet but this is coming soon!

We'll prepare it for launch

Once you have paid, give us 24-hours to prepare your promotion before it appears on the Discover page. You can check the status of your promotions from your Show page.

Check your stats in the app

On your Show Page you will can access stats for your promotion. See how many people saw or heard your podcast and how much each listen cost.
CASE STUDY

Flirting With Bitcoin

Ian and Mandana are the hosts of the Flirting With Bitcoin podcast. Starting in December 2022, they invested a total of $1500 in Fountain Promotions and saw their audience grow exponentially. Promotions have helped them bring first-time listeners in, but Ian and his wife also remind their listeners to send a boost or create a clip to help spread the word. In June 2023, they reached 100k total downloads and have hundreds of regular supporters, with over 80% of their total audience listening on Fountain.

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