Backstage with Patreon – Details, episodes & analysis

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 brian.keller@gmail.com

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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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Filmmaker Alan Seawright is the co-host and co-creator of the video series Cinema Therapy, along with his best friend and former college roommate Jonathan Decker. The series combines Alan’s filmmaking prowess with Jonathan’s expertise as a licensed therapist. Together, they geek out about movies and break down the mental health and relationship dynamics at play.

Cinema Therapy formed out of necessity and opportunity in 2020 after Alan moved his family to Los Angeles — only for the entire film industry to shut down. The collaborators built their audience on YouTube first and added membership on Patreon in September 2022.

In this episode, Alan shares fresh ideas and energy from their launch, as well as their vision for the show’s ongoing growth.

Transcripts are available at patreon.com/backstage. Join the discussion about the episode in the Patreon Creator Community Discord https://discord.gg/patreon.

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A new suite of Patreon features improve the membership experience and help creators turn casual page visitors into members. These include a way to highlight tiers, as well as improvements to the experience listening to audio and video on Patreon, with a sleep timer, playback speed, and closed captioning. In this episode of Backstage with Patreon, Johna Seo and Vivian Chen from Patreon’s Product Marketing team serve as your guides to these new features. 

For more details about Patreon Video and how it might be a fit for your creative business, listen to “Goodbye unlisted YouTube links, hello Patreon Video” on Backstage with Patreon.

Transcripts are available at patreon.com/backstage. Join the discussion about the episode in the Patreon Creator Community Discord https://discord.gg/patreon.

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Hosted by Ryan Jon and Toni Lodge, Toni and Ryan is a hit podcast known for rude jokes, subtle sexual chemistry, and unfiltered commentary and stories. By developing a close relationship with their audience, this Australian duo successfully made the leap from TikTok and Instagram Reels to building a community with thousands of members on Patreon. One thing that helped fans become members? Members get to the chance to interact with the show, “approve” each new episode, and get personalized shout-outs.

Ryan details his journey from working in radio to going independent as a podcaster and the lessons he’s learned along the way on making your own chances, using your in-between time to engage with your audience, and just how many chicken nuggets is too many to eat at one time.

Transcripts are available at patreon.com/backstage. Join the discussion about the episode in the Patreon Creator Community Discord https://discord.gg/patreon.

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Known as the Creator Coach, Josh Zimmerman has spent 14 years guiding television networks, production companies, YouTubers, and other creators on how to grow and succeed. While helping clients navigate the ins and outs of their businesses (like navigating digital rights, production processes, and managing partners), he’s seen over and over again how things like stress, anxiety, and feelings of overwhelm can compound into a paralyzing — and rampant — condition for creators: burnout.

Josh digs into circumstances that lead to burnout and how establishing healthy routines, daily action plans, and frameworks for when to say “yes” and “no” can help tame it.

Transcripts are available at patreon.com/backstage. Join the discussion about the episode in the Patreon Creator Community Discord https://discord.gg/patreon.

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At a recent live session hosted by Pull Up, Patreon’s incubator and community for creators of color, three Black creators — musician KAMAUU, founder of #SmartBrownGirl book club Jouelzy, and culture-maker Jade Fox — shared their insights and experiences with growing their creative businesses.

In this episode of Backstage with Patreon, hear five takeaways from the event, on navigating tiers and content, boosting audience engagement, finding your healthy balance, and valuing your work as a creator. To learn more about Pull Up and join the community of creators of color, go to https://pullup.patreon.com/

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The Discord integration for Patreon helps creators build online community with secure text chat that works on desktop and mobile devices. With flexible controls for different membership levels, special roles, and access to exclusive chatrooms, it’s one of our most popular integrations. Patreon recently released a major improvement for how we keep active members in sync with Discord role access.

In this episode, Patreon Product Manager Eric Fong sheds light on the creator feedback and planning that went into the recent updates, and steps you can take if you want to start using Discord and Patreon together.

Transcripts are available at patreon.com/backstage. Join the discussion about the episode in the Patreon Creator Community Discord https://discord.gg/patreon.

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Runner and coach David Roche co-hosts the podcast Some Work, All Play with his wife Megan Roche, MD. Both David and Megan have won running championships and earned the title “U.S. Trail Runner of the Year.” On the show, the couple blends their enthusiasm for running with science, digging deep into subjects like training, races, studies, pop culture, and big life decisions, like whether or not or have kids.

In this episode of Backstage with Patreon, David discusses what it’s like to work with his spouse (communication is everything!) and shares encouraging lessons and metaphors from the world of sports that translate to life at large, as well as running a creative business. “Start it,” David says. “You never know what’s going to happen till you start.”

Transcripts are available at patreon.com/backstage. Join the discussion about the episode in the Patreon Creator Community Discord https://discord.gg/patreon.

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When you’re hanging out online, chances are the website you’re using has a process in place to make sure everyone’s playing by the rules, so problematic materials get removed and the space remains safe. Easy, breezy, right? Not always… When policies are murky and your content is suddenly removed without a clear reason, you might be caught off guard and feel like you’re being punished or that you don’t have agency over your own creative work. But at Patreon, with updated content moderation tools, we take a more transparent, creator-first approach to preserving our community guidelines.

In this episode, Senior Product Manager Chris Price offers a glimpse behind the scenes of how Patreon’s trust and safety tools and content moderation processes work, as well as the philosophies that guide them.

Transcripts are available at patreon.com/backstage. Join the discussion about the episode in the Patreon Creator Community Discord https://discord.gg/patreon.

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