The easiest way for podcasters to:
Offer exclusive content
Collect listener support
Charge for early access to a season
Sell audiobooks directly to your fans
Charge for ad-free content
Provide private access to episode archives
Add a podcast to your membership program
Glow is the easiest way to build your podcast membership program. Launch for free in 10 minutes.
I love that Glow makes it so easy for the podcaster, but more importantly, it's the fastest and easiest way for listeners to sign up and support the show consistently. Highly recommend!”
Erica Mandy
Founder and host of The NewsWorthy
The direct relationship between artists and their fans is more important than it’s ever been. Five years from now, people are going to be earning annuities off of podcast content, and Glow is going to help make that happen.”
Nas
Musical Artist, Investor
Glow is easy for your listeners
Provide a frictionless experience for listeners
We built Glow to make it as easy as possible for your listeners to pay you. Don’t make them go to another website, download a new app, or figure out how to copy an RSS feed. Let them hear your call to action and join in less than 30 seconds.
Your brand in the spotlight, the whole time
No new apps to download
Seamless checkout using Apple Pay or Google Pay
Easy premium content delivery
Glow is easy for podcasters
All you need is a feed, a bank account, and an idea.
(We can help you with the idea.)
Build your well-oiled membership machine
The best way to grow your membership is to put forth amazing content. That’s why Glow does the heavy lifting of running a subscription business for you. You have the tools to launch your program from scratch in ten minutes, the support to manage your subscribers, and the analytics to grow your business.
Launch your page with our self-service page builder
Analytics that help you grow your business
Subscription management including billing and renewals
Monitoring feed access and piracy detection
"Glow has given me an innovative opportunity to connect with my fans. After experimenting with multiple apps, I am thrilled to have found a platform which is easy for my team and me to use and gives my listeners a seamless podcast experience."
Allison Melody
Host of Food Heals
How will you Glow?
Glow gives you options so you can build the program that works best for you. We're the most flexible option in town. See how we compare to Patreon.
Acquired uses Glow to run its “Limited Partner” membership program, where listeners can pay $5/month for two bonus episodes every month (on top of their two regular episodes). Today, five percent of listeners are Limited Partners, and the number is still growing.
Vik pours endless time, energy, and dollars into producing his weekly Poda Bing retrospective. He made a humble ask to his listeners to help, as Tony Soprano would say it, take the podcast “into the 21st century” and uses Glow to fuel his listener support program.
Sexual health is important! Welcome to My Vagina brings you real talk about sex and gender every two weeks, and they want listeners to support them however they can, whether it’s a recurring payment, or just one-time.
Money for the Rest of Us is a membership-community that provides private access to high-value personal finance resources, like quarterly market reports, a quarterly market report, and a weekly premium podcast.
Twenty Thousand Hertz offers ad-free content to its members. At first, listeners had to renew their subscription on a monthly basis. Then, Dallas started offering the option to pay on an annual or monthly basis.
Learn how Twenty Thousand Hertz grew its revenue by allowing annual payments.
Subscription bonus content
Acquired uses Glow to run its “Limited Partner” membership program, where listeners can pay $5/month for two bonus episodes every month (on top of their two regular episodes). Today, five percent of listeners are Limited Partners, and the number is still growing.
Learn how Acquired doubled its revenue through membership.
Ongoing listener support
Vik pours endless time, energy, and dollars into producing his weekly PodaBing retrospective. He made a humble ask to his listeners to help, as Tony Soprano would say it, take the podcast “into the 21st century” and uses Glow to fuel his listener support program.
Learn how Poda Bing uses Glow to keep delivering weekly Sopranos commentary
One-time payments
Sexual health is important! Welcome to My Vagina brings you real talk about sex and gender every two weeks, and they want listeners to support them however they can--whether it’s a recurring payment, or just one-time.
Learn how Welcome to My Vagina lets its listeners offer one-time or subscription contributions to keep the show thriving.
Private content to an exclusive community
Money for the Rest of Us is a membership-community that provides private access to high-value personal finance resources, like quarterly market reports, a quarterly market report, and a weekly premium podcast.
Learn how Money for the Rest of Us improved the value of its membership by providing a weekly private podcast to its online community
Annual memberships
Twenty Thousand Hertz offers ad-free content to its members. At first, listeners had to renew their subscription on a monthly basis. Then, Dallas started offering the option to pay on an annual or monthly basis.
Learn how Twenty Thousand Hertz grew its revenue by allowing annual payments.
Questions?
Does Glow require listeners to download a new app?
No. Listeners can pay you and listen to premium content wherever they like to listen. Glow works with major podcast players, including Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocket Casts.
Can someone share my private feed?
They can, but they’d have to try really hard. We monitor for feed piracy to make sure your private content doesn't get into the hands of people who didn't pay for it.
I’m interested, but don’t know where to start.
Start here. Once you create an account, someone from our team will reach out to you to answer questions and help you brainstorm your membership.
Created by and for podcasters.
Glow was born out of our CEO’s dream to build a business out of her local news podcast.
In 2017, our CEO Amira created Backyard Cambridge, a podcast about the City Council election in her then-home, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She interviewed the candidates, produced the episodes, and built a small audience. When fans told her she wanted more, she developed a business plan for how to turn Backyard Cambridge into a subscription-based local news service. She took the plunge and started building a local news startup, but then ran into a problem: she didn’t have an easy way for her listeners to pay her for the content.
She had the content, she had the audience, she had the plan. But, she didn’t have the tools to bring her dream to life.
Our mission is to create a world where content realizes its value.
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