Podia
Review
Thinkific is an e-learning marketplace where individuals, small businesses, and companies can share their expertise and skills with the world by creating, marketing, and selling online courses or memberships. The platform offers a variety of tools to assist both creators and learners/members. The platform also allows instructors to offer all the bells and whistles that a learner can expect with a traditional course, including course completion certificates, assignments, and even individual-attention classes.
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- Integration with Self-Hosted Blog
- Publishing Tools
- Writer Support
Platform Details
Name: Podia
Date Founded: 2017
Website: Podia.com
Thinkific was founded in 2012 by Grag Smith and Matt Payne.
Podia FAQs
This section contains answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about Podia.
What is Podia?
Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions. Writers get a content management system (CMS) built for publishing email newsletters, integrated payments through Stripe, and a website that can host free and subscriber-only content.
Substack was founded in 2017 by Chris Best (former chief technology officer of messaging app Kik), former journalist and Tesla alum Hamish McKenzie, and developer Jairaj Sethi. Substack introduced paid podcasts with the launch of a tool for audio publishing in 2019. In 2020, Substack introduced group publishing tools, allowing multiple writers to collaborate on a publication.
Who can publish a course on Podia?
Anyone can write on Substack. There are amateur writers who share their random thoughts, and well established journalists who write exclusive investigative content that would otherwise be featured in The Wall Street Journal.
PODIA KEY FEATURES
Free Subscription Newsletter
Substack offers a free subscription-based newsletter, that makes it easy to charge them for access.
Free Blog
Posts on Substack can be posted, automatically, through your newsletter, as well as on your blog.
Free Email Marketing System
Substack offers writers a free email marketing system, allowing them to easily message their readers.
Podia PROS
There are many advantages to publishing on Substack. Substack takes something fairly complex, creating a subscription based newsletter, and makes the process simple and free.
Whether you are a writer who is considering creating a Substack newsletter, or you are an experienced blogger who is debating exploring other platforms, Substack has a lot to offer.
Clean design
Newsletter renders well on mobile devices
Allows authors to "own" their email list
Authors can choose their own pricing
Free subscription newsletter, blog, CMS, and email address
Built in podcast recording and publishing tool
Podia CONS
While Substack is an amazing platform, there are a number of disadvantages. Not all of these disadvantages are unique to Substack specifically, but they are still worth mentioning.
Most of the disadvantages center around the limited features available for Substack newsletters, the fees Substack collects, and the lack of advanced content discovery tools for readers.
