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and once you do click that button it will change

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to say I'm a fan and the benefit is that you'll

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then get notified when a new episode has been

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published so you don't always have to come back

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to the page and go oh it's a new episode I didn't

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know that they were clickable oh right anything

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in purple is clickable yeah oh okay Welcome to

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Fan Zone, your bite -size guide to getting the

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most out of the True Fans podcast app. In each

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episode, we'll discuss an aspect of the app and

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hopefully answer any questions you may have about

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it. Plus... When you listen to fans owning True

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Fans, you can earn as you listen and use your

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earnings to support your favourite podcasters.

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I'm Clare Waite -Brown, independent podcaster

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and all -round podcast enthusiast. And I'm Sam

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Setty, the CEO and founder of True Fans. I found

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a podcast I like the look of. I've clicked on

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that show art from the home screen or perhaps

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from a search I've made. And I've been taken

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to the show screen, i .e. this is the page that

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tells me all about the podcast as a whole, rather

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than a screen that is relevant to a single episode.

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Sam, what will I see on the show page? First

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of all, you see the lovely big cover art image.

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On that cover art, there are some icons and we'll

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come back to those in the future. But the main

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things you will see is the title of the podcast.

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And then you will also see categories. The categories

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are really interesting because they allow you

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to choose the Apple categories, mainly what your

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podcast is associated with. News, business, sport,

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information, education. And those are clickable.

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And that's really cool because what you can then

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do is say, oh, my podcast or the podcast I'm

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looking at is a news podcast. I wonder if there's

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other news podcasts I might be interested in.

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And so you can click on any one of those categories

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and then it'll take you to the search page and

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you can then see all of the other shows that

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have also got a category with the one that you

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just clicked on. Wow. I didn't know that. I didn't

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know that they were clickable. Oh, right. Anything

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in purple is clickable. Yeah. Oh, okay. and then

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below those categories Claire you'll find the

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description of the podcast and obviously you

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can expand that out if it's a long description

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and the last thing I think that's really nice

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is we've also put the last published date of

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the podcast so you know when that podcast is

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updated its most recent episode but also when

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you start to look at shows that are live we also

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show you the next published date of that live

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show so sometimes you will see the last published

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date if it's just been updated, and sometimes

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you'll see the next live update. Oh, so we can

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make plans for the future. Indeed. Okay, under

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that information is a lovely big purple button

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that says become a fan. Now, is that the equivalent

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to a subscribe or a follow option that you might

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have known in other apps? Completely. I mean,

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obviously, we could have called it subscribe

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or follow, but being true fans, we thought become

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a fan was the way that we would use it. And once

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you do click that button, it will change to say,

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I'm a fan. And the benefit is that you'll then

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get notified when a new episode has been published.

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So you don't always have to come back to the

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page and go, Oh, is there a new episode? We will

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then inform you through a screen notification

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or a push notification or an email and you can

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choose if you want or don't want an email in

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your user settings. but we will give you the

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options to get notified once you become a fan.

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Brilliant, so you're told when there's a new

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episode out and you can be in the know. Indeed.

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Okay, so under that button there are a few icons.

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Do you want to give me a quick rundown of what

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they mean, what I might do with them? The most

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important one is the information icon and then

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when you click on it you get a pop -up telling

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you All the metadata about that podcast so when

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it was first launched, how many episodes there

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are, it'll tell you who the host is, it will

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tell you the country, the language, it will tell

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you a lot more information if you want. You can

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also see what keywords they've used which are

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different to categories that we described earlier

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but you can also click on any of those keywords

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and they will take you to the search engine and

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you can see other people have used. similar keywords,

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you can also scroll down and you will see the

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last 10 episodes. So you'll be able to see how

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long they were on average, how long each episode

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is. So you can say, Oh, yes, it's a show that's

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often 45 minutes long. Great. I like that. And

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of course, the final thing you can see there

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is playback speed. A lot of people like to have

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the opportunity to either increase or decrease

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their speed. Now you can do that manually with

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our media player. But if you want a certain podcast

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to always play at 1 .5 % or you want 1 .2x you

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can change the slider save that and then the

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next time you come back we will automatically

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play it at the speed you saved that. So lots

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of information in there but have a hunt around

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and you'll see. Yeah oh very useful the next

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symbol is a lovely symbol it's a hand with a

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love heart in it what's that all about? Many

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people have used advertising as a way of making

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money with their podcast. And then the other

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way that people use our websites called Patreon

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and buy me a coffee. And those are very, very

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good websites. Don't get me wrong. But what you

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have to do is obviously load your content again

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onto another website. You've already got it on

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your host and now you're putting it somewhere

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else. And then you're asking people to go there

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and basically pay you a monthly subscription.

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We thought it would be really cool if you're

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in TrueFans and you wanted to support a certain

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podcast, you click on that icon and you can set

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a monthly fee for just supporting that podcast.

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They're very similar to Patreon and buy me a

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coffee, but you can do it inside of TrueFans

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instead of having to go out and do a lot more

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work. A lovely little initiative. Thank you from

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podcasters for that one. You're very welcome.

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Oh, and you can pause payments as well. So you

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don't have to cancel you can go in there and

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if you one month you don't want to pay, just

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pause it and we won't take the money. And it's

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all taken, by the way, very securely using Stripe.

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So they'll come out of your bank account or credit

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card, whatever you set up through a very secure

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third party. Yeah, super. Thank you. Next there's

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a bell. Is that to do with notifications? Yeah.

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So again, you can turn them on in your info pop

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-up, or you can just do them there very quickly.

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I don't want any more screen notifications or

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email notifications. Click that bell and we just

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turn them off for that podcast. Okey dokey. And

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then the last symbol is the three dots, which

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gives us some extras. What extras am I going

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to see when I click there? The main one that

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you probably want at this stage is to be able

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to share this podcast with your friends across

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social media or copy a link. So there is a share

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icon. The other icons will probably come back

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to you Claire. One's called TrueFans Social,

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which is how you share it out to a third party

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social media network called Mastodon. And again,

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we'll cover that topic in more detail later on,

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but that's very much like Blue Sky or X. People

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are beginning to understand how they can share

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content to third parties. And payment splits

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for creators with any podcast, you can be a solo

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creator, or you can be a multi -creator, you

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know, two hosts, three hosts. And so you might

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say, oh, if someone's paying for my podcast,

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I want them to split the money automatically

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between me and my other hosts. And as a creator,

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you can set that up in the admin dashboard or

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in your host. And then all you do when you click

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payment splits, you can say, oh, who's getting

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the money that I'm going to send? And it gives

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you a visual indicator of who gets 10 % or 50

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% or whatever the amount may be. Hiya. FYI, you

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will only see the payment splits option when

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you click on the three dots if the creator has

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set splits up. So in many cases, you probably

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won't see this option at all. Some shows I've

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noticed also have people's photos or avatars

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underneath the icons before we get to the tabs

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that we're going to speak about next. What's

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that all about Sam? So this is called the person

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tag and it's a picture of the host or hosts who

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are in the podcast. So one of the things that

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people want to see is a visual image of who they

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can hear. And so some podcasts hosts publish

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their image in their RSS feed and that's what

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you're seeing. Okay. Now I'm looking at my own

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show here and there's a picture of you and it

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says, super fan Sam Sethi. Yes, yes. A super

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fan, as we'll learn later in fan zone is about

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gamification. It's the idea of earning points.

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with a certain podcast and becoming their superfan.

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So the more you listen to shows, the more that

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you write comments, share episodes, invite friends

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to it. All those actions have points and those

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points lead to a leaderboard. And then the person

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who's top of that leaderboard is a superfan.

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One of the benefits of being a superfan is you

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actually then become part of the payments so

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you get in the split. So for example, you will

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get as a superfan 1 % as a default, the creator

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of that podcast can change that to zero or a

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number much higher if they should. It's in the

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behest of the creator. But automatically, once

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you get to the top of a leaderboard for being

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the best person with that podcast, you become

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their superfan. Brilliant. There are also some

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tabs if you scroll down just a little further

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on that screen, which you listener are of course

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very welcome to have a play around with, but

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we will talk about these in more detail. We're

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going to talk about what each tab means and what

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each feature is. For now, what you can do is

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make sure you're clicked on the episodes tab.

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in which case you will, not surprisingly, see

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all of the episodes for that show and we're going

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to talk about what happens when you click on

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an episode in our next episode. Thank you so

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much, Sam. Thanks, Claire. Thanks so much for

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listening. There are lots more episodes of Fan

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Zone for you to get stuck into and that show

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you how to make the most of the fab features

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that this forward -looking podcast app has to

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offer podcast listeners and creators alike. We'd

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love to hear from you. You can send us a comment

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on True Fans, more about that in the Fan Zone

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episode on comments, or email support at truefans

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