The give-back, explained
Every euro this platform earns is split at the moment it is paid.
We do not collect funds in our account and decide what to do with them later. Our payment processor reads the rule below and splits the payment before it lands. The community receives their share within minutes, not months.
Example · €8 virtual broadcast ticket
€8.00
Witness pays
€5.60
To the host community
€2.40
To the platform
The 70% is enforced in our payment processing code. It is not a policy we can decide to reduce.
Revenue stream
Community
Platform
In-person witness fee
The default for every event.
70%
30%
Virtual broadcast ticket
Includes interpreter honoraria within the 70%.
70%
30%
Editorial / press licensing
Photography and quotes — community decides what licenses.
70%
30%
Documentary fees
Long-form access; community approves narrative scope.
70%
30%
Subscriptions
Distributed across active communities. 10% retained for platform overhead.
60%
40%
On the rare occasion that a community is owed more — for example, where a film crew has paid a fee directly to the platform that should have gone to the community — we transfer at 100%. We do not take a finder’s fee on our own oversight.
Where the split appears to leave the platform thin: that is the design. We are not optimising for our own runway. We are optimising for whether traditions are alive in fifty years.