Somebody else owns the relationship
Your subscribers are another platform’s users. You don’t hold the list, and you can’t reach them anywhere that platform doesn’t allow.
07/ 08SEE IT END TO END
ON AIRCREATORS & NETWORKS
Publish series and films into a catalogue that behaves like the services your audience already pays for — with subscriptions on your own merchant accounts, a rail that keeps them watching, and your app on their TV.
- Seasons, episodes & Up Next
- 12 recommendations per title
- Recurring billing on Stripe & Square
- QR sign-in on the TV
02/ 08YOUR WORLD TODAY
Your series is a playlist
Seasons flattened into one long scroll, no Up Next, and nothing telling a viewer which episode they stopped halfway through last Tuesday.
Their checkout, their payout terms
Buyers pay through somebody else’s checkout, the money lands on somebody else’s schedule, and the customer list stays with them.
The living room is a quote
A TV app means a developer, an estimate and a store resubmission every time you want to change what’s on the home screen.
03/ 08WHAT CHANGES
- 01Episodes in one long playlist.Show → seasons → episodes, with season tabs, episode-number badges, lock badges and Up Next keeping a binge going.
- 02Viewers hunting for the episode they abandoned halfway.Playback position saved as they watch, a continue-watching list with a link straight back into the player, and My List across videos, shows, single episodes and live events.
- 03A dead end when the credits roll.Twelve recommendations on every watch page — same category first, then shared genres — shown on the paywall screen too, so a blocked viewer keeps browsing.
- 04Somebody else’s checkout and somebody else’s payout schedule.Checkout on your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account. Subscriptions renew on Stripe and Square, PayPal takes one-time purchases, and the money lands on your payout terms.
- 05A TV app sitting on next year’s roadmap.Apps on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, iOS and Android, in your brand — and a TV that signs in with a QR code.
04/ 08WHAT YOU SWITCH ON
Switch a module off and its public page, navigation link, Studio section and app tab leave together — the apps change the same moment, with no resubmission.
On-demandPoster grid, search, category pills with live counts, cast and crew, ratings — and audio titles with seven playback speeds.
Shows & seriesSeasons with their own posters and trailers, episode access that inherits or overrides, and Duplicate for the weekly drop.
Subscriptions & plansRolling plans, free trials on Stripe, device limits and an ad-free tier. Members cancel themselves and keep the period they paid for.
TV & mobile appsYour palette, logo and wording on every device, and the same paywall decisions in the browser, on the phone and on the TV.
Reels add-onA vertical feed ranked by loves, comments, shares and views, where unseen reels come first — the trailer your fans pass on.
Clip add-onSubscribers on the right plan cut up to 30 seconds from a title and keep it on My Clips — a premium-tier perk.
PublishingEpisode notes and behind-the-scenes posts, locked to a plan when you want, with a related-content block that points readers at the episode.
Live EventsPremieres and live Q&As, sold as a ticket, kept for subscribers, or both — with the replay publishing itself.
StoreMerchandise beside the series, with guest checkout. Buying a shirt never changes what anyone can watch.
Live TV channelsLeave offA 24/7 channel of your back catalogue, for the day you’re ready for one.
Teams & athletesLeave offBuilt for sports networks, and opt-in. Leave it off.
RadioLeave offOnly if you run live audio stations. Recorded podcasts live in on-demand.
05/ 08RELEASE DAY
A Thursday at an independent network: the weekly episode goes up in the morning, and by bedtime a stranger from a lunch-break scroll is watching it on her TV.
- Thursday · 10:00
Episode four, from episode three
The producer opens last week’s episode and presses Duplicate. The copy lands as the next episode in the season with its setup already in place, and she swaps in the new video and synopsis.
- Thursday · 12:00
The homepage turns over on its own
A hero slide for the new episode goes live at noon on the site’s own clock. It’s already dated to retire itself next Thursday, when episode five takes its place.
- Thursday · 12:30
A reel does the trailer’s job
The social editor posts a moment from the new episode to Reels. Viewers who haven’t seen it get it ahead of anything they already have.
- Thursday · 13:10
The lock is on the play button
A first-time visitor watches the reel, finds episode one and presses play. She’s told exactly what stands in the way and given the one button that fixes it, with twelve recommendations still under the player. The network sells through Stripe, so the monthly plan opens with a free trial — card collected, nothing charged — and she watches twenty minutes before her break ends.
- Thursday · 19:40
Up Next
At home on her laptop she finishes episode one, and Up Next lines up the rest of the season. She adds the show to My List and lets episode two start.
- Thursday · 21:10
The rail keeps her browsing
Between episodes she scrolls the rail under the player: twelve titles built from real relationships — the same category first, then shared genres. A documentary from your back catalogue catches her eye, and she saves it for the weekend.
- Thursday · 22:00
The living room
She moves to the sofa and opens your app on the TV. It shows a code; she scans it with her phone, sees the TV named, and taps Approve. Her trial is already there, and so is the episode she stopped halfway through, waiting in continue watching.
06/ 08THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER
0titles in every recommendation rail
0revenue mechanics running at once
0payment providers — your own merchant accounts
0connected-TV families recognised in your analytics
THE TALLY LIGHT IS RED
See a series go from upload to a subscriber’s TV on a call — catalogue, paywall, recommendations and the apps.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the live product — no slides.