{"id":993303,"date":"2026-02-18T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993303"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:47:49","slug":"pocket-fm-says-1-in-5-monetised-creators-earn-over-%e2%82%b91-lakh-a-month-heres-how-they-make-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/pocket-fm-says-1-in-5-monetised-creators-earn-over-%e2%82%b91-lakh-a-month-heres-how-they-make-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket FM says 1 in 5 monetised creators earn over \u20b91 lakh a month: Here\u2019s how they make money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pocket FM said more than 1% of its creators now earn over \u20b91 lakh a month, as the platform\u2019s total creator payouts have crossed \u20b9300 crore and it targets \u20b91,000 crore by 2026. The company, which has raised about $197 million including a $103 million Series D round, said its growth has come alongside rising use of AI tools, expansion in Indian languages and higher global distribution. Media reports said its parent firm Pocket Entertainment recorded a 68% increase in revenue to \u20b91,768 crore in FY25 from \u20b91,052 crore a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p>The company said more than 300,000 creators published stories on the platform over the past year, many using AI-assisted tools to produce episodic audio content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pocket FM said more than 1% of its creators now earn over \u20b91 lakh a month, as the platform\u2019s total creator payouts have crossed \u20b9300 crore and it targets \u20b91,000 crore by 2026. The company, which has raised about $197 million including a $103 million Series D round, said its growth has come alongside rising use of AI tools, expansion in Indian languages and higher global distribution. Media reports said its parent firm Pocket Entertainment recorded a 68% increase in revenue to \u20b91,768 crore in FY25 from \u20b91,052 crore a year earlier. The company said more than 300,000 creators published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}