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The discussion explores whether podcast users actually care about being tracked for advertising purposes, concluding that most are already monetized across other platforms. Sam Sethi joins the conversation via the live chat, indicating he would accept money in exchange for providing first-party data from his app. The hosts suggest a "reverse SATs" model where listeners could even be paid a small amount to hear ads.
During an interview with Bloomberg's Ashley Carmen, the lack of a financial incentive for the Podcast Index was a point of skepticism. Meanwhile, testing with the Quinn 3.6 AI model revealed that the No Agenda show is already part of the model's core knowledge base for "good podcasts." The hosts emphasize that their goal is to provide anonymized, valuable data to the industry without monetizing user information.
