Expert Interview FAQ

Wait... You charge your interview guests to appear on your show?

The Limitless podcast is a little different - we don't monetize with...

• Irrelevant and interruptive ads (VPNs, supplements, mobile games, etc.)
• Disruptive pre-roll or mid-roll ads.
• We don't put interviews behind a paywall.

We try to actually respect the listeners' time by making interviews exclusively about my guests. So, one of our filters for Limitless Interviewees is the Expert Interview packages - we only offer this to potential guests that we find noteworthy and are interested in platforming.

We deem this a higher-integrity monetization model because, again, we aren't wasting the audience's time and distracting them with interruptive mid-roll ads, unrelated to the topic they tuned in to hear about.
It allows us to more thoroughly vet our guests and their brands to keep the show quality high.
And we avoid the ethical hazards that come with the kinds of affiliate offers common in the podcasting space (we're not going to mislead our audience into signing up for "the next BetterHelp").

So you just interview anyone who pays you?

No. The expert interview package is only offered to guests whom we deem notable for their innovative work in the fields of Biohacking, health, longevity, or personal growth.

What is the difference between the one-off package and the 3-month agreement?

Paid ads to the right product offer can be a money-printing machine, but it requires significant experimentation with the creatives>targeting>landing page>offer funnel. And it typically requires ongoing ad creatives production; first day you drop a new ad creative, you get like a 4% CTR, and you're in the money. Two weeks later, it's 1%, and you need new creatives.

The 100K and 500K view campaigns OR a 3-month commitment give us the chance to produce enough clips to find the ad messaging that really works. 

High-ticket offers perform best when cold traffic sees your brand message consistently, rather than in a single quick blast. When you commit to a 3-month agreement, it gives our agency predictable volume—allowing us to negotiate lower wholesale CPM rates directly with our ad network partner

Because our production labor drops after we build your master interview in Month 1, and because we secure better ad rates on a 3-month agreement, we pass those structural savings directly to you with a 25% discount across every tier.

Can’t we just set up an affiliate partnership instead of paying for advertising?

We are always open to joining affiliate programs for products we genuinely believe in. However, our interview production process (pre-research, scripting, interview, post-production, syndication) always comes out to at least a 15-hour investment of time for us.
While affiliate programs can be rewarding, in our +10 years in this space, we've found that we can't rely on affiliate programs to recoup this significant time investment for these reasons...

1. Affiliate System "Resets": We've found that companies routinely switch affiliate software platforms about once a year. Then affiliate have to manually update hundreds of legacy content links (while, suspiciously, the old links continue driving traffic to the vendor without tracking commissions.)
2. Payout Friction: Internal affiliate managers and accounting departments are notoriously late on payouts, often requiring constant nagging just to collect earned commissions.

While we’re happy to use your affiliate link, the true high-leverage value Limitless provides is in our managed marketing campaigns. Paid syndication guarantees targeted eye-tracks on your brand assets rather than leaving your growth to passive hope.

What guarantees do I have that this will ROI?

None, of course. That depends on audience-offer-fit, which is hard to gauge before experimenting with marketing. The only thing riskier than marketing is not marketing, and this offer is distinguished by a combination of an authoritative, credibility-building interview, which gets guaranteed human views.
What's guaranteed is a high-quality, well-produced interview that will live on the internet forever and 10,000 - 100,000 human views of well-produced clips of the interview in the follow-up campaign.

Where is the interview syndicated?

First on LimitlessMindset.com with an authoritative backlink to you and over 50 places online, including...
The pro-free-speech video platforms Rumble, Odysee, and others. Along with all major podcasting platforms: Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Spotify, Amazon Music, Castbox.FM, and others. And numerous social media publishing platforms: Medium, Substack, Twitter/X, Facebook, etc.
A backlink to you will appear everywhere the interview is syndicated, building a link network.

The interview won't be syndicated to YouTube? Why?

To give you, as our honored guest, something precious that you're deprived of on YouTube: free speech - the fundamental human right upon which all others rely.
We made the difficult decision to stop publishing to YouTube because of a fundamental misalignment of their values and ours. Read more about this.

You reserve the right to re-publish the interview on your YouTube channel, podcast feed, or wherever.

When will the interview be syndicated?

These interviews and the accompanying promotional clips are time-consuming to research, record, design, and produce, so it will take 1-3 weeks to one month to produce and syndicate.

Who manages the ad campaign?

Ongoing management, testing, and optimization of the campaign is handled by us. You and your team need only monitor the results - leads, subscribers, sales, etc - on your website (or wherever the ad campaign is sending traffic). If you select one of the two-month campaign packages, we'll touch base after the ads have been running for 30 days to see how they are converting on your side and make adjustments to the campaign.

Where do the video ads appear?

Currently, we run all our video ad campaigns through RAC. An advertising network that delivers ads to the pro-free-speech social networks and content publishers, most notably Rumble.com - the most popular YouTube alternative.
RAC offers competitive CPMs (cost per thousand views) advertising in North American and English-speaking markets. With RAC's focus on pro-free-speech platforms, your ads are placed in front of a discerning demographic that is a cut above the average social media user.

What is the post-campaign analysis?

Following the completion of a two-month managed campaign, we'll provide you with a report breaking down...

• Which creatives (the produced clips) performed best
• In which geographic markets did the campaign perform best

We provide this so that you and your marketing team can run with the ad campaign in the future.

How and when do you accept payment?

You can pay for a one-off marketing package or subscribe via Stripe immediately after submitting the interview consent form above...

OR

If you prefer to pay via PayPal or crypto, you can request an invoice for the expert interview package you've selected. Please pay this within three business days to secure your spot on our interview schedule (this allows us to lock in pricing on ad pricing).

Is there anything sneaky in the terms and conditions?

Sneaky? No. The entire model is designed to align our growth as a broadcast platform with scaling your brand's revenue. However, there are a few operational realities you should be aware of:

• Marketing Readiness: In the past, we've had clients get overwhelmed and drop the ball on their own backend preparation. The success of a paid distribution campaign depends heavily on having a customized, optimized landing page that matches the messaging of the podcast clips. Because of this, we do not launch ad spend until your landing page is live and verified. To keep things simple, we provide clear instructions showing you exactly what that landing page needs to include.
• 3-Month Commitment: If you choose a monthly subscription package, you are locking in a 3-month agreement to give the campaign enough frequency to compound in cold traffic channels.
• Creative & Media Authority: You hold the vision for your brand, but our agency retains full operational control over clip editing, ad hooks, targeting parameters, and network selection.
• Private Issue Resolution: If you ever have a concern or technical glitch, you agree to work it out with us privately and directly so we can make it right.