Pricing + Commissions
Pricing is simple with Podz
Podz platform is free for all to join and browse.
Podz is a mix of free and premium (paid) Podz containing beautiful, entertaining, thoughtful and useful content.
Guides, blogs, videos, product reviews, fitness workouts, makeup, travel and more.
There are no upfront fees and no monthly subscription fee, to access Podz as a User (‘Fanz’) or as a Creator.
As a user, there is no requirement to pay a monthly subscription to access the platform and no monthly payment obligations to a Creator.
How do creators make money?
No minimum follower counts, no minimum views, no applications required to attempt to get into a ‘Creator Fund’. PODZ pays you more than other platforms for your sales.
Research shows only 27% of creators have received money from creator funds.
TikTok requires a minimum of 10,000 followers , and your receive a minimum of 100,000 views on TikToks posted within 30-days.
YouTube: To start earning money directly from YouTube, creators must have at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in the past year, then creators can apply YouTube's Partner Program. YouTubers keep about 68% of the ad revenue - as long as the viewer hasn’t skipped the ad. They must watch in full. Most advertisers pay from $0.10 to $0.30 per view, with an average of $0.18 per view.
Twitter: You can receive tips. No other payment options.
Facebook and Instagram’s apply to their Creator Fund. Instagram’s subscription option will start charging fees in 2023. Users can purchase badges during Instagram Live - if they see it.
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Earn more with PODZ
Commissions from sales of Premium Podz
Creators can opt to create and sell access to their Premium Podz. This is content locked behind a paywall. Free preview is available to users.
Types of Premium content: In depth courses & tutorials, premium guides (e.g. travel, makeup, fitness, education), special offers, deals, and other exclusive content.
Creators earn 75% commission income from sales of their Premium Podz content.
Creators can increase amount this by using our ‘Creator invite a Creator’ referral program.
Commissions from sales of ‘Custom Requests’
From their Creator profile in Podz, creators can opt to sell additional products or services called ‘Custom Requests’.
These can be gift vouchers, shoutouts (e.g., sending video birthday greetings), writing/blogging services, or pre-recorded 30 or 60-min video sessions. For example personalized workout or cooking video, education courses, video education sessions.
All payments are encrypted through the Stripe payment platform.
Creators can earn 75% commission income from sales of their Custom Requests booked and delivered through Podz app.
Creators can increase this amount by using our ‘Creator invite a Creator’ referral program.
To be eligible to receive payment for Premium content and Custom Request, the creator must have their bank account based in the U.S. International payments to creators for Premium Podz and Custom Orders are not available at this time.
Tips
Creators can opt to receive support tips. This is a setting enabled in your Creator Profile.
All creators globally can earn 100% of tips paid to them by fanz through the creator’s personal PayPal, Venmo or Cash App accounts - subject to any fees these providers might charge. Podz does not take any commission on tips.
Affiliate revenue
Creators can include their affiliate codes, promo codes, QR codes, special offers inside their free or Premium Podz.
Amount earned is the agreed amount between you and your affiliate partner. Podz does not take any commission on sales made through affiliate links.
What is the benefit of financially supporting a Creator’s pod?
You get great content from a creator and in turn, you are financially helping Creators make their living.
Every time you support a Creator, a copy of the pod is saved to your ‘My Podz’ page in the app for easy access later.
You may reveal hidden premium content.
A Creator may include a special offer or promotion to supporters inside a pod. To reveal the private code to redeem the offer, a user will need to purchase exclusive access
Is there restricted content?
Yes. Podz must not contain content relating to pornography, hate, direct alcohol sales, firearms, tobacco, political parties, proselytizing or spam.
Any charities or non-profits listed by Creators must be U.S. based, legal, and not raising money for one of the restricted businesses. Full list of Restricted Content and Business activities is here. Creators who breach this will have content removed, accounts closed, forfeit any unpaid earnings, and may be reported to authorities.
Creators must abide by Podz Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
