Last updated 10 September 2026 · All amounts in US dollars (USD)
This is the deal between you and K2MStudios, which operates Indiewright. It sits alongside the Terms of Service and is written to be read, not skimmed past.
The Code of Conduct binds you as a creator, and section 4 is written specifically for you. The three rules that end accounts rather than earn warnings are worth stating here:
You publish your own work. Indiewright does not review it in advance and is not responsible for it — you are, which is the other side of owning it.
You keep every right in what you upload. You grant Indiewright a non-exclusive licence to host, encode, stream and display it, and to use short excerpts and cover art to promote it on the platform. That is all.
Non-exclusive means you may publish the same work anywhere else at the same time. We do not ask for exclusivity and will not.
The licence ends when you remove the work, except for copies already bought by listeners — they paid for access and keep it — and for records we must retain by law.
Publishing a work costs a one-off fee, charged to your card at the moment you publish it:
| Work | Cost to publish |
|---|---|
| Any work, your first or your fortieth | $20.00 |
| … and if you give it away free | $50.00 |
Card processing is added on top, and the exact total is shown to you and confirmed by you before your card is charged. The count is of works you have published, over the life of your account; it does not reset.
Nothing is charged while you are making a work. You can upload everything, set your prices, change your mind and delete it, without paying anything. The fee is charged at publication and only at publication.
It is not a subscription and it is not taken out of your sales. Nothing recurs. You keep 90% of every purchase regardless.
A published work can be unpublished, but the fee for it is not refunded — it paid for putting the work live, which happened.
Indiewright keeps 10% of the price of each sale. You keep 90%. On a $10.00 work you receive $9.00.
Listeners pay card processing themselves when they add funds, so it never touches your earnings. Payout transfer fees, monthly payout account fees, annual 1099 filing, storage and bandwidth all come out of our 10%.
Where a split produces a fraction of a cent, it rounds in your favour.
A card charge can be disputed by the cardholder's bank days after it is made. If we paid an earning out the same day and the purchase behind it later turned out to be fraudulent, the money would already be gone — and the only ways to recover it are to take it out of your future earnings or to absorb it ourselves. Neither is good for you.
Seven days is short enough that it barely changes when you get paid, and long enough to catch the obvious fraud. It applies to every creator equally, and the window is not extended as a penalty. Your earnings screen always shows the two figures separately, so you can see exactly what has cleared and what has not.
Our payment provider charges a flat monthly fee for every account that receives a payout, plus a per-transfer fee. Paying a creator earning $20 a month every month would cost more in fees than that creator generates in commission for us — so frequent small payouts would make small creators unprofitable to serve, which is the opposite of the point. Batching to $50 means the flat fee is charged once instead of three times. If you need an earlier payout for a genuine reason, ask us.
You are an independent creator, not an employee. You are responsible for your own taxes. Where US law requires it, a 1099 is filed for you at our cost. You may need to provide a W-9 or equivalent before payouts can be released.
Once a work is published, none of the following costs you anything more:
None of this is behind a plan, and we will not move it behind one.
Video costs us money per minute watched, so it is the one thing metered. Video files are capped at 10 minutes. Every creator gets a free monthly viewer-minute allowance that grows with earnings — every $1 you earn adds 100 viewer-minutes, on top of a free baseline of about 16 hours a month.
If your allowance runs out, your episode keeps playing as audio. We will not take your work offline over a bandwidth bill.
Listeners can report published work. Reports are reviewed by a person, not automatically actioned. We may remove a work or suspend an account where there is credible evidence of infringement or fraud.
If we act against your work, we will tell you why and you may respond. Every action is recorded in an append-only log. Repeat infringement ends an account.
A ban for a Code of Conduct violation forfeits any refund on purchases you made, as it does for any account. Your earnings are treated separately and honestly:
Every ban can be appealed — see Appeals. Works, purchases and money are held rather than destroyed while an appeal is open, and are restored if it succeeds.
You may remove any work, or close your account, at any time. Your accrued earnings are paid out in full. Anyone who already bought an edition keeps access to it. We do not hold work hostage and we do not keep money because someone left.
For any material change — anything touching the 10%, the payout threshold, your rights in your work, or what we may do with it — we will email you at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you do not accept it, you may close your account and be paid out in full.
We consider the 10% a promise rather than a starting price.
creators@indiewright.com for anything about earnings or payouts.