We’re pretty explicit about our mission at Payge. We think creators of all types – comedians, artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, writers and performers – deserve to be recognized and rewarded for their creative contributions. We’re not big fans of social networks turning others’ creativity into their ad revenue. We want to give fans the opportunity to interact and say thanks directly.
There are a few platforms for recurring, membership-based creative sponsorship. Patreon is the 800 lb gorilla, but existing platforms like Facebook are starting to sniff around the edges. In those models, creators who are committed to building their membership business through recurring, episodic and tier-based offerings enable their strongest fans to support them monthly or each time a new ‘release’ happens (for instance each new chapter in a book or new podcast).
We see recurring sponsorship as just the tip of the iceberg in how fans want to…
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