Re: customized podcast feed

You could set it up so that once you pay (or buy the product or jump through whatever hoop you have) then you get access to a button on a web page, and the button will automatically set up the RSS subscription in, say, iTunes.

iTunes has set things up so you never have to look at some ugly old URL for the RSS feed, so most people wouldn't even think to look for it. So you don't have to worry about unauthorized access. Unless you target audience is hackers.

So the idea is you don't pay for the download, you pay to get access to the RSS feed. This way you don't have to have a seperate feed for each user, just a seperate feed for each class of user.

Not only that, but if you had an item that you wanted all the users to see(like a promo) you could just put that item in each of your RSS feeds.

If you wanted to keep making people pay, or if someone did give out the RSS location, you could just keep changing the name of the XML file, and making clients pay for the new info each time.

Just some ideas. I'm just trying to get more people to watch my video podcast so I can sell advertising in it. So restricting access to just a special few is the opposite of my goal.