Lessons from a creator’s 10 year Patreon anniversary | Pretty Much It | #24

07/04/23 • 25 min

Eric Striffler, is the creator of Pretty Much It, and his business partner is AJ Lebenns. Pretty Much It produces audio commentary and videos where Eric discusses movies and TV with his friends. Pretty Much It has been making content since 2010 and on Patreon since 2013. From Indiana Jones to High School Musical, Eric has been watching and telling jokes from his RV and his friends’ couches.

We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Pretty Much It on Patreon, hear how Eric maintains and evolves his high-energy commentary style, and how they continue to embrace new features on Patreon that have helped the business grow.

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Monetize in new ways with commerce on Patreon | Jesse Munitz-Alessio | #23

Jesse Munitz-Allesio is Patreon’s Product Manager for Digital Commerce. Before joining Patreon last year, Jesse spent over 12 years at Facebook and Meta working on product, including data infrastructure, Instagram Reels and notifications, and the sharing and consumption process across all of Meta’s platforms.

We talk about Patreon’s new product offering creators the ability to sell digital items to their audience, as part of their membership business or as a standalone store. A lot of creators have been asking for this monetization option, so we’re excited to share more about how creators can grow their earnings and offer more to their fans with digital commerce.

To sign up for early access to these features, go to https://comingsoon.patreon.com/

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Belonging and safety come from a community of true fans | Sam Haveson | #25

Sam Haveson, is Patreon’s Product Manager in charge of the Community product at Patreon. We cover Patreon’s increasing investment in co-building community features with creators. Some of the features we talk about in the episode aren’t quite ready for more creators to try out just yet. But Patreon will be announcing more about those opportunities in the near future.

This is the final episode of Backstage with Patreon!

This is the end of my time at Patreon leading the Creator Success team but hopefully not the end of getting to work with creators and telling company stories. You can find me on Twitter @BrianPodcasting, LinkedIn under brikell, and email at [email protected]

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