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Fountain connects podcasters with a global community of listeners to discover, share and support their greatest work
Fountain is the podcast app that connects creators with a global community of fans
Podcasts powered by community
Fountain connects podcasters with a global community of listeners to discover, share and support their greatest work
Fountain connects podcasters with a global community of listeners to discover, share and support their greatest work
Fountain connects podcasters with a global community of listeners to discover, share and support their greatest work
Rewind 2023
The most comprehensive year-in-review of Podcasting 2.0 including charts, insights and awards.
See the 2023 Fountain awards
Rewind
2023
The most comprehensive year-in-review of Podcasting 2.0 including charts, insights and awards.
In Fountain Rewind 2024, we look back at the top stories, reveal the top shows and artists - and play back your personal highlights.
Rewind 2023
The most comprehensive year-in-review of Podcasting 2.0 including charts, insights and awards.
Podcasting 2.0 Stats (2024)
$191,180
Feeds supporting Value for Value (+42%)
63,165,035
Sats streamed
134,699,646
Sats boosted
39,855
Boosts sent
3,380
Average boost
4,644
Feeds supporting Music (+145%)
Source: Podcast Index (23 December 2024)
$191,180
In 2024, listeners sent a total of $127,900 to creators on Fountain
The 2 BTC sent is equivalent to $127,900 based on a daily price conversion but it would be worth nearly 50% more today.
You sent over 40,000 boosts to your favourite shows and artists, with an average boost value of 3,380 sats (around $3.20 at today's price).
To add to that, over 63 million sats were streamed over the course of the year, representing 32% of total value sent.
Thank you for listening and supporting on Fountain. You had hundreds of podcast apps right at your fingertips, but you chose us.
We have some really exciting new features and improvements coming early in 2025 that we can’t wait to share with you.
But before we get into 2024's top stories and hand out some awards, update to Fountain 1.1.12 and check out your stats...
The number of feeds supporting Lightning payments grew by 42% in 2024, reaching a total of 23,602 at the close of the year.
$191,180
In 2024, creators on Fountain earned a total of $191,180 (up 60% on last year's total)
You sent over 40,000 boosts to your favourite shows and artists, with an average boost value of 3,380 sats (around $3.20).
To add to that, over 63 million sats were streamed over the course of the year, representing 32% of total value sent.
You had hundreds of podcast apps right at your fingertips, but you chose us - so thank you for listening and supporting on Fountain.
We have some really exciting new features and improvements coming early in 2025 that we can’t wait to share with you.
But before we get into 2024's top stories and hand out some awards, update to Fountain 1.1.12 and check out your stats...
The number of feeds supporting Lightning payments grew by 42% in 2024, reaching a total of 23,602 at the close of the year.
Podcasting 2.0 Stats (2024)
23,602
Feeds supporting Value for Value (+42%)
61,894
Feeds supporting Funding (+33%)
40,164
Feeds supporting Chapters (+56%)
69,747
Feeds supporting Transcripts (+65%)
13,116
Feeds supporting Video (+15%)
4,644
Feeds supporting Music (+145%)
Source: Podcast Index (23 December 2024)
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2024 Top Stories
Podcasts predicted the outcome of the 2024 US election
Every presidential election is a snapshot in time of the media landscape, and this election will go down in history as "The Podcast Election". The Colin and Samir Show reported that Donald Trump got 124m views from 14 podcast appearances, including The Joe Rogan Experience and The All-In Podcast. Meanwhile, Harris got 4m views from just 5 appearances. These are just the stats from YouTube, but it's fair to assume that data from podcast apps would tell a similar story. Did somebody say podcasts are losing their cultural influence?
A breakthrough year for Bitcoin
Thanks in part to the result of the presidential election, it has been a phenomenal year for Bitcoin, which was up more than 150% from the start of the year to the all time high of $108,239 recorded on 17th December 2024. Meanwhile, annual inflation in the US stood at around 2.7%. In other words, podcasters and artists getting paid in Bitcoin won, while those getting paid in dollars were hit by the invisible tax. While listeners on Fountain sent slightly less to creators in bitcoin in 2024 compared to last year, total support in dollar terms was up 60%.
Podcasting 2.0 entered the mainstream
In March, Apple announced that they would make its own transcripts available for new episodes or allow podcasters to supply their own. Pocket Casts followed by adding support for transcripts and chapters too. Not only was this a big step forward for accessibility, but seeing popular apps with millions of users starting to get behind these new features was a vote of confidence in the project. There are some Podcasting 2.0 features that these apps will never implement (Apple has its own index of podcasts and it has Apple Pay), but in 2025 we hope to see more features get supported where it makes sense.
Music distribution and discovery is changing
Of all the new features and mediums being supported in RSS feeds, music saw the biggest growth in adoption in 2024 (the number of feeds containing music was up over 150%). RSS gives artists open distribution to a growing number of apps and Lightning allows them to get paid directly by listeners. Unlike the post-Napster business model, your income is about how much listeners value your music - not how much Spotify value (or undervalue) your music. To help the growing number of artists publishing their music to RSS feeds get discovered, we launched Fountain Radio. You can pay to add a track to a global queue, hang out in the live chat and support the artists directly. We've had 10 artists host takeovers on Fountain Radio in December, and we're excited to welcome more in 2025.
Nostr showed us the way forward
In August, we became the first podcast app to integrate Nostr - a simple, decentralised messaging protocol that allows social activity to be shared across different apps. It is now possible to bring your existing profile and follower graph to Fountain, but the killer feature is that your boosts and comments now get surfaced in other Nostr clients - and users on those apps can interact with your posts. The Nostr protocol is evolving rapidly and apps are laying the foundations for what could be a breakthrough year in 2025 - and we hope to see more podcast apps to Nostr to bring the ecosystem together through a common language.
2024 Awards
MOST SUPPORTed show
Rabbit Hole RecapRabbit Hole Recap is a bitcoin news show hosted by Marty Bent and Matt Odell. Over the last three years, RHR has become one of the most-loved shows among Fountain listeners (affectionately known as ‘freaks’). In 2022 they were #3, in 2023 they were #2, and in 2024 they finally claimed the #1 spot. Congratulations, Marty and ODELL. Your dedication and humility is an inspiration to bitcoiners around the world.
SHOW WITH MOST SUPPORTERS
Mr ObnoxiousPeter McCormack announced earlier this year that What Bitcoin Did, the preeminent podcast he has hosted for as long as we can remember, would come to an end to make way for a new show, Mr Obnoxious. In December, the Real Bedford FC owner announced that Danny Knowles would be the new custodian - much to the relief of the 800 listeners who supported the show this year. Thanks for everything, Pete!
MOST SUPPORTed EPISODE
LINUX Unplugged | 545: 3,062 Days LaterLINUX Unplugged is just one of many popular shows about open-source, security and privacy from Jupiter Broadcasting. Editor-in-chief Chris Fisher finishes the year with three shows in Fountain's top 40. How? He and his co-hosts have made boosting a core part of the listener experience, with his audience often sending "zip code boosts" (which can get pretty expensive if you live in Alaska).
MOST SUPPORTed ARTIST
Ainsley CostelloAt just 20 years old, Ainsley has been working toward a career in music for over half her life. Her music is the modern pop soundtrack of the next generation. Ainsley first made "waves" on the internet in August 2023 as the first artist to receive 1 million sats with her hit song “Cherry On Top.” Since then, she has inspired countless artists to follow her path, becoming the face of this exciting new movement.
ARTIST WITH MOST SUPPORTERS
Man Like KweksDon Kweka is a producer and rapper from Tanzania. When he's not at his desk working his 9 to 5, he's making beats in his bedroom - and he has been prolific in 2024. Earlier this year he told Forbes he had earned a total of $25.68 from United Masters, the distribution company he uses for traditional DSPs (for which he pays a $60 annual fee). Since first publishing his music on Wavlake, he’s earned 2.3 million sats (over $2,000).
MOST SUPPORTed TRACK
Abi Muir | StockholmBorn in Scotland and now residing in Australia, Abi’s distinctive, goosebump-inducing vocals and heartfelt lyrics define her creative songwriting. Her unique style sees her delivering memorable, catchy pop songs of singer-songwriter prose with a contemporary pop sound. In Stockholm she explores a darker, harder edge to her music that crosses into alt-rock, topped with Muir's piercing, sultry vocals.
MOST SUPPORTed LIVE SHOW
Bands at Bitcoin, Embassy Suites, Downtown NashvilleFor the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville this summer, Phantom Power Music hosted three days of free live music to showcase the power of lightning and other open protocols like RSS and Nostr. An eclectic line up of emerging artists took to the stage at Embassy Suites Downtown, including Joe Martin, Sara Jade and Herbivore. Nearly 3.7m sats were sent in total (around $3,500) across all apps showing the livstream.
MOST SUPPORTed MUSIC show
Boostagram BallBoostagram Ball is the first (and foremost) music show, hosted by Adam Curry. When we say "music show", we mean a podcast which includes music from artists that the audience can support as they are listening. Boostagram Ball is like a drive time radio show powered by bitcoin. Tune in live on Fountain to hear the hottest new releases.
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Share your Rewind for a chance to win Fountain AirPods, limited edition merch and 100,000 sats
Open the app to see your Fountain Rewind (make sure you're using the latest version). Post a screenshot of any screen in your Fountain Rewind on X or Nostr and tag @fountain_app in your post. We will be announcing three lucky winners on Dec 31 - good luck!
2024 Top Shows
#1
Rabbit Hole Recap
#2
LINUX Unplugged
#3
Ungovernable Misfits
#4
No Agenda
#5
Coder Radio
#6
This Week in Bitcoin
#7
Mr Obnoxious
#8
Curry and The Keeper
#9
Bitcoin And…
#10
Podcasting 2.0
#11
The Bugle Weekly
#12
Self-Hosted
#13
Citadel Dispatch
#14
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#15
Bitcoin Audible
#16
Einundzwanzig, der Bitcoin Podcast
#17
Planet Rage
#18
Nodesignal - Deine Bitcoin-Frequenz
#19
Living Up In A Down World
#20
Millennial Media Offensive
#21
Bitcoin.Review Podcast with NVK & Guests
#22
Münzweg - der Bitcoin-Podcast
#23
Bowl After Bowl
#24
THE Bitcoin Podcast
#25
Coin Stories
#26
High Hash Rate
#27
Lunaticoin
#28
Behind the SchƎmƎs
#29
Plebchain Radio
#30
Was Bitcoin bringt - mit Niko Jilch
#31
The Survival Podcast
#32
Moe Factz with Adam Curry
#33
Rock Paper Bitcoin
#34
Sound Money Bitcoin Podcast
#35
Stephan Livera Podcast
#36
Boostagram Ball
#37
We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network
#38
Bands at Bitcoin, Embassy Suites, Downtown Nashville
#39
The "What is Money?" Show
#40
The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
2024 Top Artists
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