A lot of your success stories are creators with an established audience who then offer private feeds with bonus content, etc. What about creators who have a small (<500) or no audience? Does it make sense to start off with paid options from the get go? Are there any case studies of smaller, indie podcasters who have succeeded this way?
We are smaller, but growing podcast. We have implemented transcriptions using Descript a few months back. Descript gets us about 80% there, but requires a decent amount of time to edit for accuracy and spelling. Trying to figure is this a good use of our time right now?