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Patreon's rolling out new automated features for creators to convert free members to paid ones.

Now last year, Patreon introduced e-commerce features and free memberships,

which allow fans to subscribe to a creator's public post without having to pay for paywalled content.

Now that creators have become more accustomed to these tools,

Patreon's adding the autopilot feature, which is going to predict which free members are most likely to

upgrade, then offers them discounts via email.

This feature is also going to work to offer discounts on items in a creator's Patreon shop.

Every month, 400,000 free members upgrade

to paid memberships, the company says.

According to Patreon,

autopilot improve the rate of free to paid membership

upgrades by an average of 19% in testing.

Patreon founder and CEO Jack Konti has been particularly outspoken about how

algorithmic feeds can hurt creators.

When creators post something on Instagram or

Tik-Tok there's no guarantee that the post will actually reach their

followers so it's a bit surprising that Patreon revamped its search feed into

an Explorer tab, which uses fans existing subscriptions

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