The questions creators and brands ask before their first deal: how payouts work, connecting your channel, approving ads, what brands see, and how billing works. Straight answers, no fine print.
Money lands in your Publsh balance the moment a deal settles. You can move it to your bank every Friday, free. The balance is derived from a ledger, so what you see is what you can withdraw.
Payouts are moved through Stripe, the same rails used for card payments and transfers across much of the internet. You connect a payout account once, and withdrawals go out from your balance to that account.
No. Moving your balance to your bank is free. The only fee Publsh takes is the flat percentage out of a settled deal: 8% on the founder rate, 12.5% on standard. Nothing is deducted at withdrawal.
You connect your streaming channel to Publsh so your page can reflect your stream. We start on Kick, where the platform API is open, and expand to Twitch from there. Connecting authorizes Publsh to read the public channel data your page is built on.
Both are the plan. Publsh launches on Kick first because the API is open and the door is wide, and Twitch follows. If you stream on both, each channel is its own connection.
The public channel information your media kit is built on. We do not track your viewers or build audience profiles, and we never post to your channel. Connecting is about reflecting your stream on your page, not taking control of it.
Yes. No ad renders on your stream until you have approved the exact creative in the exact placement. Your stream, your call. You can approve, ask for a change, or pass.
Yes. You pick the creator on purpose and see the placement your creative sits in before it runs, and the creator approves it too. Nothing runs that either side did not approve, so brand safety is by design rather than a moderation queue after the fact.
No. Publsh is not a fill network. A brand chooses the creator, the creator approves the creative, and both sides consent to the placement. Nothing is dropped in by an algorithm.
The creator's rate for a placement you both approved, billed against the exposure that actually rendered on the stream. There is no bulk impression buy to burn down and no marketplace markup layered on the creator's rate.
The billing model is designed to pause when nothing is on screen, so a dropped or paused stream is not billed. You are charged for rendered exposure, not for time the ad was not showing.
The metering model, how rendered time is defined and turned into a billable total, is built. The live capture path that streams every second off a running broadcast into that model is still being built and carries privacy and platform terms we are working through first. We describe billing as designed, not as a finished, fully running meter, and we will say plainly when it is fully live.
A flight is designed to close with its serving log: what ran, when, in which placement, and for how long. The idea is a receipt you can read line by line, rather than a total you take on faith.
Still have a question? The words behind these answers are defined in the glossary, and the measurement methodology is broken down in how measurement works.