Joe Budden‘s The Joe Budden Podcast is making over $1 million a month on Patreon.
Joe Budden Reveals Income Numbers
On Tuesday (July 22), The New York Instances revealed an article the place they explored the ex-rapper’s podcast empire. In keeping with inside numbers shared by Joe with the newspaper, he’s incomes $1.04 million a month on the crowdfunding subscription service Patreon. He’s anticipated to tug in over $12 million on Patreon this 12 months alone, making him the highest earner on the platform.
By the top of the 12 months, the Joe Budden Community is on a tempo to rake in over $20 million in 2025, together with promoting income, in accordance with JBN chief govt Ian Schwartzman.
How Joe Budden’s Podcast Makes Over $1 Million on Patreon
The Joe Budden Podcast has round 70,000 paying subscribers. Subscription tiers vary from $5 to $50 monthly. Subscribers get entry to episodes early along with extra episodes and spin-off exhibits.
Extra Earnings
Along with Patreon, the Joe Budden Podcast makes hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in advert income. Budden’s firm sells its personal adverts as an alternative of coping with bigger networks and due to this fact eliminates a intermediary. Merch and licensing income additionally contribute to the present’s backside line.
How Did Joe Budden Grow to be a Podcast Mogul?
Joe Budden has been in the hip-hop podcast sport for over a decade. He started in 2015 with I am going to Title This Podcast Later earlier than beginning The Joe Budden Podcast in 2016. In 2018, he inked an unique take care of Spotify, which paid the present lower than $2 million per 12 months, in accordance with Schwartzman.
After the deal led to 2020, Joe launched the Joe Budden Community. In 2021, he partnered with Patreon, which included fairness within the firm and advisory roles for Budden and Schwartzman.
“Joe is in a league of his personal,” stated Jack Conte, chief govt of Patreon. “It isn’t frequent for folks to make 1,000,000 {dollars} a month on Patreon.”
Joe’s present cohosts embrace Queenzflip, Marc Lamont Hill, Melyssa Ford, Parks Vallely, Ish and Ice.
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