Episode Details

Ciara Doherty sits down with journalist Kate Henshaw to explore how OnlyFans grew from a niche London startup into a global powerhouse that has paid out more than $25 billion to creators. 

They trace the platform’s rapid rise, through the pivot into adult content that supercharged its growth during the Covid 19 pandemic, and dig into the business model that allows it to generate extraordinary profits with a tiny workforce. 

Ciara presses Kate on the uncomfortable questions too: who really benefits from the platform, how much control creators actually have, and whether the promise of easy money matches the reality for most users. 

With the recent death of its secretive owner, Leonid Radvinsky, the conversation turns to what happens next for the company — including the possibility of a sale and whether OnlyFans can ever move beyond the adult content that built it. 

And with an Irish CEO at the helm and Revenue increasingly scrutinising earnings from the platform, Ciara and Kate explore why this global story is hitting closer to home.