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Creator Networks (Proposal)

A proposed way for a group of creators to operate as a network, with shared revenue, transparent agreements, and protections that keep individual creators in control. We want your feedback before we build it.

Audience: Creators Status: Proposal. This feature does not exist yet. We are sharing the plan to collect feedback before building it.

Some creators work as a group: a label, a studio, a collective, or just a few friends who share an audience and split the work. Today the platform treats every organization as a lone island. This proposal describes how we plan to support networks of creators, and it asks for your opinion while the design can still change. Nothing on this page is available today, and details may change based on what we hear.

The idea in one paragraph

A network is a regular organization that other creators can join without giving anything up. You keep your own organization, your own shows, your own subscribers, your own Stripe payouts, and your own control panel. What connects you to the network is a written agreement with one headline number: the share of your net earnings the network receives in exchange for whatever it does for you (promotion, production help, sponsorship deals, or paying for your plan). The platform enforces that agreement mechanically, on every transaction, with a full history both sides can see.

How the money would flow

Today, every audience payment works like this: the viewer pays, the platform takes its 8% fee, and the rest lands in your earnings ledger as net earnings you can pay out to your bank (how payouts work today).

With a network agreement in place, one more step happens after the platform fee, and only after it:

  1. A viewer pays you $10.00 (a subscription, coins, or an episode purchase).
  2. The platform fee is unchanged: 8%, or $0.80.
  3. Your net so far is $9.20.
  4. The network’s agreed share, say 20%, is taken from that: $1.84.
  5. You keep $7.36, recorded in your ledger like any other earning. The network’s $1.84 lands in its own ledger the same way.

Both sides pay out through the same Stripe payout flow that exists today. The network never touches your balance, your Stripe account, or your payout button. Every earning records the exact rate that was applied to it, permanently, so your history is auditable forever.

The protections, which are the point

We are designing this pro-creator by default. These rules would be enforced by the platform itself, not by trust:

  • Rate increases require your explicit acceptance. If the network proposes a higher share, nothing changes until you accept it. If you decline, or simply ignore it, your current rate stays. Proposals expire on their own.
  • Rate decreases apply immediately. A network can lower its share any time without asking, since that only benefits you.
  • You can leave whenever you want. Leaving is immediate, requires no notice and no fee, and takes everything with you: your organization, your content, your subscribers, your earnings history. A network that wants to end the agreement has to give you notice (we are proposing 30 days by default).
  • A hard ceiling on the share. The platform would cap any network’s share at 50% of your net. No agreement can exceed it, period.
  • Complete, immutable history. Every rate the agreement ever had, who proposed it, who accepted it, and when, is stored and visible to you.
  • Your money stays yours. Network staff can never request your payouts, touch your Stripe connection, change your billing, or manage your team.

A network could pay the platform subscription for creators it brings on. If a network sponsors your organization and later stops paying, for any reason, your organization falls back to the free plan and keeps working. You would never be locked out because someone else’s card failed.

Optional managed access

If you want the network to help run your channel (uploading episodes, managing your live schedule, moderating chat), you could grant its staff a limited operator seat in your organization. Two things make this safe: only you can grant it, and you can revoke it at any moment with immediate effect. Money, payouts, billing, and team management stay out of reach for network staff no matter what.

What would not change

  • The 8% platform fee stays exactly as it is, network or no network.
  • Creators who never join a network see no change at all.
  • Joining a network is always opt-in, and only you can accept an agreement.

What we want your feedback on

We would like to hear from creators before this is built, especially on these open questions:

  • Is a 50% ceiling on the network share the right cap, or should it be lower?
  • Is 30 days the right notice period when a network ends an agreement?
  • Should a creator be able to belong to more than one network at once? Our current plan says one network at a time, for simplicity and clarity.
  • What should a network be able to see about your channel? Our current plan is earnings it has a share in, plus roster-level summaries, and nothing else unless you grant managed access.
  • Would you use this as a network operator, as a member creator, or both?

Tell us what you think

If you are signed in, there is a feedback form at the bottom of this page. Tell us whether you run a group today or would be joining one, and leave your email if you would like a reply. Otherwise the contact form works too, with « Creator Networks » in the subject line. A person reads every message either way.