Nearly all my patron-only posts are for my lowest tier and up. The only exception are much less frequent posts for $18 and up, to which digital rewards are attached.
I post roughly 3 times a week.
Two posts a month are patron-only, the rest (9-11 posts on average) are public.
My experience is that patron-only posts are significantly less of a driver for new patrons as public posts are.
As an artist at minimum I post weekly, as I run a webcomic that updates once a week.
Usually itās more than that however: if I have any art to share, which I usually make like 2-5 pieces a week, Iāll make a post for each pic. If I have done requests at all that week, those go up. If I have any work in progress on animation. And if I have source files thatās an additional post for that day.
And once a month I do a āgeneral updateā post just to tell people what Iām working on.
Since I also do NSFW a good chunk of my photo posts are patron-only, but if anythingās SFW itās publicly available. I also use early access for a lot of my posts.
I just wrote about this for my readers. Iāve seen a direct correlation between posts and pledges: The more I post, the more frequently I have a valid reason to talk about those posts on social media, and the more frequently I get new pledges.
Since 2016, my goal has been to post, on average, one post for every day in the month. Iāve been very happy with the results.
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I have to wonder if thatās due to your posting frequency or to the NSFW contents 
I have no doubt that the NSFW content is a significant driver of pledges.
Nonetheless, Iām a big believer in more posts = more pledges.
When my post frequency slows down, I lose backers. Theyāre looking at this like a subscription ā not a tip jar. And when they feel as if theyāre not getting what theyāre paying for, they bounce.
Thatās a good point. My backers are totally different and donāt seem to care whether I post or not :S
It certainly varies, but i post quite often. Sometimes there is just too many things to post and i have to do multiple in a day. (Specially at the beginning of the month when i post polls for my patrons to vote on what content they would like to see, what resources theyād like me to create, etc.) So far Iāve not had anyone actually complain about ātoo many postsā though i do my best to spread things out but still keep my patrons engaged. I think its really dependent on your content and your supporters but you can always ask them! Iāve found that asking them how they feel about X Y Z, what they want to see more of, etc, really helps bring you closer to your patrons and really create a happy environment on your project.
great thread
I post just 3 times a month, my project itās about free animation workshops and patrons support me each time I dictate a workshop, the dynamic of this itās that I do a video for each workshop I dictate and that videos are the payed content I post. My number of patrons itās constant so I have stability, but Iām looking for strategies to increase it because itās a precarious stability.
It varies for me. I only post when I have new content for my patrons or an important update. Day-to-day talking usually happens in my patreon discord channel instead
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I post a video or live stream once a week, and every couple days is a poll, WIP, model shots, or anything else I want to announce. I post as much as I can, and if I have the time I post every day.
Patrons donāt interact that much, and I have a solid base of people that interact and comment frequently. But, for the most part, my Patrons just want to see videos, and other tutorial stuff.
Posting more than once a day is excessive, and not something I would ever consider.
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I post as much as I promised (depending on the pledge, a monthly car step by step, a weekly comic page, weekly cartoon, all the newsā¦) and a little bit more, so patrons get more than they payed for. I guess they appreciate, but I donāt know for sure!
I also try to post something free every five or six posts, for curious people wanting to guess whatās behind the āpatron onlyā posts.
It is difficult for me to reach new patrons, but I can say that once the come, they stay! 
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I was just about to start a topic to ask this question when this one showed up as a 'similar topic. Iāve recently started doing a weekly update post at the end of the week to share news about all work-in-progress projects, other news, and, sometimes just what weirdness life threw at me that week to interfere with project plans. It guarantees that Iāll at least make one post a week, but Iāve been trying to aim for 3-5 posts. Iāve also been struggling to decided how much is too much or even if there is such a thing. I donāt want to possibly annoy anyone by flooding their inboxes with loads of notices of new posts, but, then again, they did decide to follow or support and get those post notices.
So what do you think? Is there such a thing as too many posts per week or per day?
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Only you can know whatās too much for your patrons, but you might poll them if youāre not sure. I suspect multiple posts a day would be too much for most content and will probably cause unrealistic expectations from patrons in the future and possible burnout for the creator. It seems as though it would cheapen the content if youāre churning it out and flooding peopleās inboxes. I followed an artist once who made beautiful artworks, but because heād streamlined his technique so he could make multiple paintings a day, it started seeming mechanical and contrived and mass-produced like on an assembly line. I stopped following him because it was too much.
That said, sometimes we do go through really productive periods and things flow easily and quickly. Iād use any extra content during those times as a buffer and schedule posts at a rate that felt comfortable to me and didnāt inundate patrons. Then if you are producing faster than youāre uploading, you can take a couple of weeks off and not have to apologize as there will still be a stream of content being released.
As for me, my patrons know Iām not at a point where I am a full-time artist and that I have a full-time job and a life outside of both. I make sure I have at the very least one artwork a month (which is usually 2 in progress posts and 1 final work) so they know I havenāt abandoned my Patreon or given up creating. Since July Iāve been determined to have at least one post per week and next year the goal is two per week, working up to three a week. Any more than that and it seems like too much to me, unless someone is doing a monthly challenge that theyāre creating something for every day. I wouldnāt expect a creator to do that every month though.
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Thanks for your thoughts @Lochy! Yeah, I was leaning towards trying not to post more than once a day. I have on occasion done that, but itās usually no more than twice, one public and one patron-only. So probably best to stick with my original plan of 3-5 posts a week for now. I donāt have a large following on Patreon yet so Iām still testing waters to see what works best. My page is actually a combination of all three of my creative pursuits (jewellery design, digital illustration/concept art, and fiction writing) and I try to post about each every week whenever possible.
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I might be an outlier here, but I post a LOT. Five or six short stories (depending on the week) one poll ever week, one poll every other week, one sneak peek (for a higher tier) and one chapter of a novel every week.
So far, my patrons love it, and are always excited for polls, stories, and chapters. I get a ton of interaction as comments, and the polls seem to hit almost full tier capacity no matter what the story options are for the week.
Ultimately, content is king, and the more content I put out, the happier they are.
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Interesting, so posting more is not, necessarily, a bad thing. Definitely seems to vary depending on what type(s) of work youāre producing. Unfortunately, I donāt have a large enough following yet on Patreon to poll them and get a better idea of which way works best for me (only 1 patron so far and 2 followers). So, I guess, just keep posting right now based on what Iām best able to keep up with it, and reevaluate it later as my following/patronage numbers increase.
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I post every weekend about 3-5+ posts over Friday - Sunday and a bonus on Monday depending on what Iām working on and if I didnāt reach my writing target or Iām feeling generous. I only do info/housekeeping posts throughout the week if I have any.
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Planning to post thrice a week now that this has become my main job.
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