BeTV is a free, ad-supported streaming service. You keep your copyright, you keep every other platform you're on, and you can pull your work any time. If it earns, we split it down the middle.
No lawyer required to understand it. The full agreement says the same thing at greater length.
Of every advertising dollar earned against your title, half is yours. Paid monthly once your balance passes $50.
No listing fee, no encoding fee, no marketing fee, no deductions before the split. If you earn nothing, you owe nothing.
Non-exclusive. Stay on YouTube, Tubi, Amazon, festivals — anywhere. This is additional distribution, not a replacement.
Written notice and we remove your title within 30 days. No penalty, no clawback, no minimum term.
| Point | Where we land |
|---|---|
| Who owns the film | You do. Always. We receive a licence to stream it, nothing more. |
| Term | Rolling, month to month. |
| Territory | United States to start. We ask before adding any other country. |
| Editing | None. We insert ad breaks at natural scene changes and show you where before anything goes live. |
| Reporting | Monthly: views, watch time, ad revenue earned, your share. Same numbers we see. |
| Payment | Monthly once you clear $50. W-9 required before the first payment. |
| Derivative use | None. We don't re-cut, dub, train models on, or license your work onward. |
We are not going to quote you an audience number, because we do not have one worth quoting yet. Anyone showing a brand-new platform's traffic figures is showing you a projection.
What we will do is send you real numbers every month, starting with the first month — including the months where the number is small. If those numbers do not justify your time, leave. That is why the exit is 30 days and not three years.
What you're getting in exchange for that risk: a 50% split instead of the 20–40% most aggregators offer after their cut, direct contact with the person who runs the service, and a curated catalog where your film sits in a row of forty titles rather than a library of fifty thousand.
Email is the whole process. There's no portal to sign up for and no account to create.
We answer every submission, including the ones we pass on, and we tell you why.
Yes, and you should. The licence is non-exclusive and we never ask you to pull anything down. Your YouTube revenue is unaffected — this is a second income stream on work you already finished.
Features, series, and documentaries. We're actively building multicultural and international rows — Black independent film, Nollywood, Latin American, Caribbean and South Asian work — because those audiences are badly served by the big free services.
Yes, though shorts earn less because there's room for fewer ad breaks. Collections of shorts from one filmmaker work better than singles.
Then start there. We can feature your channel through YouTube's own player while you get a master file together. That placement earns you nothing through us — YouTube keeps that revenue — so treat it as a trial run, not the deal.
Advertising revenue attributable to your title, split in half. We show you the gross, our costs are not deducted first, and the report names the source of every dollar.
Your terms don't get worse. Any change to the split has to be agreed in writing, and if you don't agree, the existing terms hold until you leave.