What is TrueFans?

In the first episode of your guide to the TrueFans app, we answer the questions:

• What is TrueFans?
• How is TrueFans different to other podcast apps?
• Why do you give me a digital wallet?
• How do I earn by listening to Fanzone?
• Where can I find TrueFans?

Music: How It Is from Ketsa Music

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Episode Transcript

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It's a brand new podcast app and it has a lot of exciting new features in it to help

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you discover stuff, interact with your favorite creators, or even make money or pay your favorite
creators as well. We value your time and attention so by giving us your time to listen to this
episode we want to reward you and the way that we will reward you is to give you tokens
from our wallet into yours.

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Welcome to Fanzone, your bite-size guide to getting the most out of the TrueFans podcast
app. In each episode we'll discuss an aspect of the app and hopefully answer any questions
you may have about it. Plus, when you listen to Fanzone in TrueFans you can earn as you
listen and use your earnings to support your favorite podcasters.

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I'm Claire Waite Brown, independent podcaster and all-round podcast enthusiast.
And I'm Sam Sethi, the CEO and founder of TrueFans.
Hi Sam, how are you?
I'm good Claire, how are you?
I'm very well, thank you. Let's get straight to it. Tell me please, in a nutshell, what
is TrueFans?

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TrueFans is a podcasting app. It's a brand new podcasting app and it has a lot of exciting
new features in it such as chapters, transcripts that allow you to do more with your podcast
to help you discover stuff, interact with your favorite creators or even make money
or pay your favorite creators as well. And many more things that we'll tell you about

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in the next few episodes.
Well that does sound very exciting. Speaking about money, we've gone straight in with that.
We talk in a future episode, episode four, about how listeners are given a wallet when
they join TrueFans and how they can fill that wallet with, let's call them tokens for now,

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that they can pass on to podcasts to show their appreciation to the creators and perhaps
send them comments. Can you just tell me how that works, the tokens within the wallet and
we'll go into more detail about the wallet in the future.
Yeah, very simply, your wallet will have tokens, they have monetary value and so you listen

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to your favorite podcast. You don't have to pay anything but if you choose to tip them
with some money, the tokens, then you can choose the amount you want to give to your
creator and it goes from your wallet directly to their wallet. It's a very simple system.
And listeners listening to this series can earn some of those tokens as they listen,

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is that correct?
Correct. We value your time and attention. So by giving us your time to listen to this
episode, we want to reward you and the way that we will reward you is to give you tokens
from our wallet into yours.
Fantastic. You may be listening to this episode having already seen it on TrueFans and if

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so, very well done you. For those who have found this podcast on another podcast app,
Sam, where should those listeners go if they have been excited and enticed by this episode
to start exploring TrueFans?
If you go to any web browser on your desktop or mobile or iPad and type at truefans.fm,

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you will find this podcast app. In the future, you'll be able to go to your app store, be
it Android or iOS and you'll be able to install us as an app as well.
Thank you so much, Sam. I look forward to learning more.
Thank you, Claire.
Thanks so much for listening. There are lots more episodes of Fanzone for you to get stuck

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into and that show you how to make the most of the fab features that this forward looking
podcast app has to offer podcast listeners and creators alike. We'd love to hear from
you. You can send us a comment on TrueFans, more about that in the Fanzone episode on
comments or email [e-mail].