Nobody asked me, but…

Every podcast is different, and every podcaster has different needs and goals.

I do four shows regularly, and each reflects _shockingly_ different decisions on hosting, editing, access, and how (or whether) it should make any money.

With that said, for almost every situation I can think of, decisions that deliberately limit how many new people can discover and learn to love your show for free is likely a movement in the wrong direction.

Doubtless, there are a handful of living humans who could make a HUGE hit of a show that's entirely paywalled or on an exclusive service or maybe even both. So stipulated.

Thing is, no one I personally know is one of those humans.

So, hey, Hakuna Matata to everybody and three cheers for diversity!

But…

For any standard human who wants to make a podcast that strangers can listen to and share and—yes—learn to love, via ANY dingus that plays audio, I'd advise caution on how quickly and completely you choose to hide your stuff from those sweet new earholes.

Post Script: if you ARE gonna make something like a @ditheringfm, for God's sake work toward making the user onboarding as terrific as those boys have.

It is, as we used to say, Best of Breed.