Why Content Creators Are Leaving Patreon for Their Own Sites & Apps
Patreon is most known out of all “your audience” platforms and with a generous revenue split. Yet Content Creators are still leaving.
It’s not only about money and revenue. You hit the platform limits sooner
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Have More For Yourself - save on fees
Patreon typically charges ~5% - 12% from your income, depending on who you are.
5% is very low considering all they do for you - payment processing, content storage and light marketing. This is usually done by subsidizing your costs from larger Content Creators.
And you can go lower than the minimum. You can almost erase that.
Card payments are usually around 3%. But you can also have different payment methods to save on fees. And then? Nothing. It’s all yours!
Beside saving on fees for the platform, with a custom website or app (or both), you can create different strategies how to monetize your content and your followers / customers.
Which is a reason why often more business focused Content Creators leave for a different solution.
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Platforms Have Limits - low entry & low ceiling
Custom graphics?
Making your specific followers more comfortable?
Disagreement with platform’s behavior?
Different monetization tactics?
A specific way you want to create?
All these are hard limitations. Platforms like Patreon are built for masses. For those who don’t need specifics, for those who are just starting. Having a low ceiling is the nature of that.
Imagine that you want automated newsletters made of your content plus a personalized offer. No way to have it done on such platforms. While this is something often done, because it saves a lot of time to the Content Creator or their team.
But… Isn’t Custom App or Web Expensive?
Not necessarily.
We have made a custom platform for Content Creators for as low as 120€ per month while they were making thousands.
You can start small. It just has to be More You .
Because that is why people follow you and pay for your content - for You.
You can always extend it later. Because here, there is no ceiling.
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