Sam Sethi
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To give back to the creator, say I really like this episode and thank you very much. And that's what it's designed for.

We've seen this in web 2.0 across many other platforms like Facebook and Twitter and whatever, but what we've done also is enabled you as the user to go and put a micropayment value to that if you want to.

Claire Waite Brown
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Welcome to Fanzone, your bite sized 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 favourite podcasters. I'm Claire Waite Brown, independent podcaster and all round podcast enthusiast.

Sam Sethi
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And I'm Sam Sethi, the CEO and founder of TrueFans.

Claire Waite Brown
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Over the next few episodes we're going to talk about the fun features that surround the listening experience within TrueFans which are found using the icons and tabs on the episode screen. If you're not sure what I'm talking about by episode screen, have a quick visit back to episode seven.

Underneath the play or resume button are the first icons that we can use to start interacting with podcasts that we like. And the first icon is a lovely heart. What happens when I click on this icon, Sam?

Sam Sethi
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Fairies and space dust appears. Claire?

Claire Waite Brown
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Lovely.

Sam Sethi
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That would be lovely, wouldn't it? If it did, maybe we'll add that as a feature.

No, what it is is it's a very lightweight piece of sentiment to give back to the creator, say I really like this episode and thank you very much. And that's what it's designed for.

We've seen this in web 2.0 across many other platforms like Facebook and Twitter and whatever, but what we've done also is enabled you as the user to go and put a micropayment value to that if you want to. So you can go into your user settings.

So clicking on your profile image, go to User Settings, scroll down towards the bottom of the page and you'll see four fields for setting your default values. And one of those is like so if you choose 10 sats or 1p then save it.

Every time you then go to an episode, when you click the heart icon, not only give the sentiment but you also give a micro payment as well to the creator.

Claire Waite Brown
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So that's at a whole app level. You can set that default for any episode that you like will be that amount that you've put in there. What about if you want to do that for maybe,

cor, this is a good one. Maybe there's one show you want to give them a bit more than you do give another show. Can you, can you separate them?

Sam Sethi
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Yes. Yes you can. So a couple of episodes back we talk about the information icon underneath the on the podcast page.

Click on that, make sure you're a fan of that podcast first. And then you'll see those same four default boxes for play comment.

And like when you put a different amount into that like box, then what happens is for that one podcast we will look to see the value you want to give and that will be the default value for that podcast.

So you might say universally I want to give 10 sats to all the podcasts that I like, but for this one individual podcast I want to give 50 sats or 50 tokens. And so you can override the default. And that's a, a nice way of doing it.

Claire Waite Brown
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Yeah, you don't have to put that amount on it to press the heart on its own. Is that sentiment, as you said, without taking anything out of your wallet.

Sam Sethi
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Exactly.

Claire Waite Brown
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And that icon then changed to a tick actually, doesn't it? So if you're listening to it, listening to the episode again and you don't like it, you can unheart it.

No, I don't mean that, you know, you've already hearted it.

And the other nice thing about this is when people are maybe looking at shows and deciding whether they want to give it a try, the little symbols that are just above the play button, those metadata symbols that we have talked about briefly in the past, if some people have hearted this episode, the little heart goes up there and there's a number there. So you can see how many other people have liked this episode.

It's a bit like when you see ratings and reviews on other apps, it just gives that bit of backup that you know other people like this and this is worth your listening to. So that's really nice for a bit of kind of discoverability and giving you a bit of kudos and backup that this is worth listening to.

Sam Sethi
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Exactly.

Claire Waite Brown
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Brilliant. Thanks so much for listening.

There are lots more episodes of Fanzone for you to get stuck into and that show you how to make the most of the fab features that this forward looking podcast applied 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 suppor@truefans.fm.