Podcorn

Flat fees change the math

A CPM buy prices audience size. A flat-fee deal prices the creator’s yes. That decouples cost from downloads: a small show with a tight audience can be a bargain at its asking price, and a bigger show can be wildly overpriced at its own. To evaluate a proposal, divide the flat fee by the show’s honest per-episode downloads and compare the implied CPM against the published benchmarks. That arithmetic is yours to run per deal; no site can publish it for you.

What the escrow buys you

Direct creator deals off-platform fail in boring ways: the spot ships late, the read skips the offer, the invoice arrives before the episode. Escrowed payment and structured proposals are Podcorn’s product. The fee for that structure comes out of the deal economics; we do not quote a platform-fee figure because we could not verify a current published one.

Podcorn vs the CPM marketplaces

Use Podcorn when you want integrations (host tries the product, talks about it on air) rather than inserted spots, and when you are prepared to evaluate deals one at a time. Use Libsyn Ads when you want rate-card pricing and volume. The direct comparison with the other creator marketplace: Podcorn vs Gumball.