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Cody Ko Bypassed Apple App Store Reviews Using a 7-Day Trigger
“I wrote some code so that the internal database was timed because I knew the app review process took like a week. Right. So then basically after seven days, It would release all the dirty captions. So I got by the Apple review system.”
Cody Ko: Audiences Now Support Creator Sponsorships Instead of Calling Sellouts
“Selling out was a much more obvious thing back then, or a much more like binary thing. Whereas now it's like completely expected. It's like someone, someone takes off and they start doing ad reads and their fans are like, yeah, get the bag.”
Cody Ko: Monetizing Comedy Audiences With Proprietary Products is Very Hard
“Comedy is a very hard thing. To like align with a product or a service because it's just something that people enjoy. It's not, you know, it's not like a, I don't know. It's not like fitness or cooking where there's like products that people use every time the…”
Cody Ko: YouTube Thumbnails Must Stand Out, Not Just Use High Contrast
“People think that a good thumbnail is, like, contrast and colors, and it's like, a lot of times, that ends up blending in. Right. You just want to look different.”
Cody Ko Predicts AI Will Automate and Synthesize Podcast Host-Read Ads
“Training some, you know, AI on how we speak, just feeding it the transcript of our 500 episodes, and then having it write the ads for us in our own voice, and then actually synthesizing our voices. And reading the ads for us so we don't actually have to record…”
Cody Ko's 'I'd Cap That' Hit Number One with Zero Marketing
“It was the number one app in the app store. Above like eBay and Google, and it was number one, and I paid zero dollars for marketing.”
Cody Ko Sold 'I'd Cap That' for $50K in Cash and Stock
“They acquired the app. I think it was like for 50 K half in cash, half in stock, which was great for me.”
Cody Ko's 'I'd Cap That Plus' Made $200,000 Immediately After Launch
“My first job was to make a, I capped that plus, which was the paid version. Right. And we launched it, and immediately it made 200 grand.”
Cody Ko's Tiny Meat Gang Amassed Over 130 Million Streams Under Arista
“We signed a music deal with Arista. And we released two songs with them, one of them being Broke Bitch, which now has, like, over fifty million streams. I think Walkman has, like, eighty million or ninety million?”
Cody Ko Passed on Cameo's Seed, Later Invested in Series A
“I could have been in at the beginning. They were making that in my living room, and I was like, this is, you're like, okay, guys. Losers. Like, cool. Yeah, it looks cool. Hey, what are these guys doing? Then I go record a YouTube video, like, that's any cooler…”
Cody Ko: Not Speaking Over Your Co-Host is Crucial for Podcasting
“That's one thing that I think we're really good at now is we never speak over each other. Like we never interrupt. We're really good at riffing, but like, cause we're innately just conscious of like, you know, the audience and what they want to hear. And no on…”
Cody Ko: Podcast Cold Opens Must Deliver a Laugh Before the Intro
“It's such a great opportunity for a laugh right before the smash cut to the intro. It's such a beautiful thing, and so we tend to, like, take our cold opens pretty seriously, or, like, we need a good laugh right at the beginning of the show, so when someone tu…”