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Pocket FM has scaled rapidly to $500M ARR by using AI to write and voice serialized audio fiction, with over 500,000 writers and increased listener engagement.

Interesting read on how Pocket FM scaled. Pocket FM makes serialized audio fiction. AI now writes and voices much of it, taking annual output past 2.5M hours. Daily listening time went from ~25 mins to >150 mins. More than 500,000 people now write on the platform, and a lot of them started as listeners.
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Interesting read on how Pocket FM scaled.

Pocket FM makes serialized audio fiction. AI now writes and voices much of it, taking annual output past 2.5M hours.

Daily listening time went from ~25 mins to >150 mins.

More than 500,000 people now write on the platform, and a lot of them started as listeners.

Rohan Nayak (@RohanNayak2): We grew from ~0 to $500M ARR, adding $250M last year alone while being EBITDA profitable.

1,300-word post on every growth tactic that worked for us:

  1. What got us from 0-$400M ARR in the US works in every country.
  2. Retention and Monetisation Hacks.
  3. Localization >

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