Spotify announces $100,000 Africa Podcast Fund, gives SA podcasts funded

[Jan]

Spotify gives four South African podcasts slice of R1.8 million

Spotify has announced the Africa Podcast Fund, which will see four South African podcasts get a cut of $100,000 (R1.85 million) in funding.

The South African podcasts that will receive funding are After School is After School with Sis G.U, The Journey Kwantu, Wisdom & Wellness with Mpoomy Ledwaba, and Convos & Cocktails with Lesego Tlhabi.

 

[Cactus]

I, too, want money without contributing anything useful to society.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

"

• Convos & Cocktails with Lesego Tlhabi — Hosted by South African satirist Lesego Tlhabi, the podcast focuses on conversations that “we, as black women, want to have… but often don’t”."

I might go and have a listen to this one...

 

[NeonNinja]

Looks like Podcasts is the next big thing...

 

[JustAsk]

I, too, want money without contributing anything useful to society.

Well then useful in something, cuz right now it seems you just posting nonsense...bitching about private companies doing whatever they want with their money.

 

[LCBXX]

I, too, want money without contributing anything useful to society.

Stand at a traffic light.

 

[backstreetboy]

No thanks happy with YouTube music. I just want to listen to music.

 

[saor]

I, too, want money without contributing anything useful to society.

So what are we doing away with movies, series, comics, fiction and everything else without utility?

 

[Madhawk]

All black..... Another racist platform....

 

[Vorastra]

Pidgin

We need more pidgin podcasts.
It's like listening to an idiot try and speak.

Read this for a good laugh.

Domot - BBC News Pidgin

We dey give una latest tori on top politics, environment, business, sports, entertainment, health, fashion and all di oda things wey dey happen for West and Central Africa come add di rest of di world join. For better informate plus explanation of all di ogbonge tori wey pipo never hear about...

www.bbc.com

lmao that site preview.

 

[LCBXX]

We need more pidgin podcasts.
It's like listening to an idiot try and speak.

Read this for a good laugh.

Domot - BBC News Pidgin

We dey give una latest tori on top politics, environment, business, sports, entertainment, health, fashion and all di oda things wey dey happen for West and Central Africa come add di rest of di world join. For better informate plus explanation of all di ogbonge tori wey pipo never hear about...

www.bbc.com

lmao that site preview.

WTF. This is like fsck-ed Fanakalo.

 

[My_King]

“Africa Podfest is excited about the development of podcasting in Africa, particularly because the medium allows underrepresented African voices to tell the story of Africa,”
What is the story of Efrica?

Ehkasi, our stories, TONIGHT only on EEEEEEE, Joburg fo sho

Where is the wata? - 25th October
Electricity... where? - 1st of November
My neighbor, the zama zama - 8th of November
Your tenda, my tenda - 15th of November
Love, lies, state corruption - 22nd of November
There is no Denel on my stoep - 29th of November
e'lollipop for my Transnet - 6th December

EDIT:

Warning - Takealot selling fake Apple products -13th December​

 

[3WA]

Lol, so much unhappy. Suddenly everyone knows more about investing in podcasts than Spotify.

 

[Cactus]

So what are we doing away with movies, series, comics, fiction and everything else without utility?

People getting paid for their opinions isn't a real job. If it was, MyBB would be full of millionaires, including me.

Some podcasts like educational ones are useful. Example: Hardcore history https://www.dancarlin.com/
Telling me about your life struggles as a 20 something year old is not.

However, as long as someone is willing to pay for it, go for it, I guess.

 

[Polymathic]

Good for them. I'm not going to listen to any of them, but good for them anyway.

 

[saor]

People getting paid for their opinions isn't a real job. If it was, MyBB would be full of millionaires, including me.

Some podcasts like educational ones are useful. Example: Hardcore history https://www.dancarlin.com/
Telling me about your life struggles as a 20 something year old is not.

However, as long as someone is willing to pay for it, go for it, I guess.

For a 20y/o going through life struggles it can help them a lot more to hear another person is going though the same thing. Half of youtube is just people giving their opinion on stuff so I'm not really understanding the objection here. What passes as entertainment / stuff people want to listen to has always been arbitrary.

 

[3WA]

People getting paid for their opinions isn't a real job.

Consulting, every academic in a Faculty of Humanities, artists, movie directors, columnists, and sports commentators all disagree.

 

[Cactus]

For a 20y/o going through life struggles it can help them a lot more to hear another person is going though the same thing. Half of youtube is just people giving their opinion on stuff so I'm not really understanding the objection here. What passes as entertainment / stuff people want to listen to has always been arbitrary.

Consulting, every academic in a Faculty of Humanities, artists, movie directors, columnists, and sports commentators all disagree.

Forgive me for this post, but I may as well explain why I feel so strongly about this.

Most people work really hard, they have a lot of stress to deal including overtime and whatever else. A lot of them get paid jack. Just reading Off Topic, I can see of a couple of people in this boat. Fortunately, I'm not one of them, but do have to carry my fair share of stress for my salary.

It feels like we're moving towards a digital age where people get paid to sit on their butt and hardly do anything. A lot of times, those people get paid much more than the guy doing an honest day of hard work.

I'm not speaking about academia or sport commentators here, I'm speaking about people opening a OF page and making thousands, or someone whipping up a Patreon page for commenting on the POTUS Twitter feed, without having to deal with a single stressful thought in the world.

What triggered me into making the original post was that someone is actually getting paid to complain about their daily life struggles (and here I'm doing it for free on MyBB )

It's been a stressful day... I'll come back tomorrow after cooling off a bit. I'll be back with my usual gif posts

No need to be a such a moaner.

 

[3WA]

Forgive me for this post, but I may as well explain why I feel so strongly about this.

Most people work really hard, they have a lot of stress to deal including overtime and whatever else. A lot of them get paid jack. Just reading Off Topic, I can see of a couple of people in this boat. Fortunately, I'm not one of them, but do have to carry my fair share of stress for my salary.

It feels like we're moving towards a digital age where people get paid to sit on their butt and hardly do anything. A lot of times, those people get paid much more than the guy doing an honest day of hard work.

I'm not speaking about academia or sport commentators here, I'm speaking about people opening a OF page and making thousands, or someone whipping up a Patreon page for commenting on the POTUS Twitter feed, without having to deal with a single stressful thought in the world.

What triggered me into making the original post was that someone is actually getting paid to complain about their daily life struggles (and here I'm doing it for free on MyBB )

It's been a stressful day... I'll come back tomorrow after cooling off a bit.

Life is unfair. I have an easier job than the guy who does physical labour, and get paid tons more. Someone else has an easier job than me, and makes more. Kieran Lee gets a paycheck for churning through poon (if you don't know, don't google Kieran Lee at work).

One of my favourite books is called Fooled by Randomness. It highlights the role of luck and randomness in success. If you take a thousand people and give them a 50:50 chance of either going broke or doubling their income each year, at the end of ten years, you'll have a guy that has insane success and thinks skill got him where he is (when in actual fact it's just luck). Moral of the story: be doing things where luck can fall in your lap. That's what these podcasters did.

 

[Cactus]

Life is unfair. I have an easier job than the guy who does physical labour, and get paid tons more. Someone else has an easier job than me, and makes more. Kieran Lee gets a paycheck for churning through poon (if you don't know, don't google Kieran Lee at work).

One of my favourite books is called Fooled by Randomness. It highlights the role of luck and randomness in success. If you take a thousand people and give them a 50:50 chance of either going broke or doubling their income each year, at the end of ten years, you'll have a guy that has insane success and thinks skill got him where he is (when in actual fact it's just luck). Moral of the story: be doing things where luck can fall in your lap. That's what these podcasters did.

Life is unfair, agreed.
I'll grab a copy of the book you mentioned. A good read is always welcoming.

Cheers