Open Channel earnings & withdrawal fees

You can publish paid posts in an Open Channel to earn revenue. In addition to publishing posts directly, you can use the repost and quote features to effectively promote your posts and expand your earning opportunities.

Open Channel earnings policy

Revenue generated in an Open Channel belongs to the post author, not the channel owner.

Sales & sponsorship revenue from posts published in an Open Channel

• Revenue belongs to the author who created the post.

Repost

• Revenue belongs to the original post author.

Quote post

• If a quote post has a set price, the sales revenue from that quote post belongs to the quote post author.
• However, sales revenue from the original post (the quoted post) belongs to the original post author.

Open Channel withdrawal fee policy

When a creator channel post is sold through an Open Channel

• The Open Channel functions as a “discovery feature” within the service.

• If a reader purchases a post from a creator channel and, at the time of purchase, there is a record that they were directed to that channel via an Open Channel (through a quote, repost, etc.) within the last 72 hours, a discovery fee (17%) will be additionally charged.

• However, even if a reader comes to the channel via an Open Channel, the discovery fee does not apply to sponsorship revenue.

Posts published in an Open Channel

• A flat 30% withdrawal fee is applied to both sales and sponsorship revenue. No additional discovery fee is charged.

• No discovery fee is added when an Open Channel post is quoted or reposted.

Examples