Is there money in podcasting? Ricky Gervais answers that with a big YES. Ricky’s record breaking podcast (which made a star out of previously unknown Karl Pilkington) is poised to make a lot of money from podcasting and take paidcasting to the next level.

Ricky’s podcast (which was given a 9 out of 10 rating by PodFly) was initially released for free by The Guardian and gained an average of 261,670 downloads per episode! Just like their ground breaking show The Office, Ricky and his partner Stephen Merchant kept it short and sweet - only offering 12 episodes. They have now inked a deal with Audible.com where fans will have to purchase the episodes. You can purchase episodes individually for $1.95 or $6.95 for the season. Since the first series was downloaded over 2.9 million times, Gervais and his cronies could be raking in $400,000 per episode.

Check out Audible’s Official Ricky Page @ www.audible.com/ricky/

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