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For YouTube channels

Stop being the only person filming your channel.

Your audience already has the footage. Crowdflow hands them a brief, collects what they shoot, and keeps you as the person who decides what makes the cut. Everyone in the finished video shares what it earns, worked out to the second.

The pilot is small on purpose. We reply to every channel personally.
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HomeRushesStoryboardsVideos
Four things need you today.
Rushes
7
Clips
214
In flight
5
Accrued
$1,284
7 rushes waiting, 2 resubmissions
Marta re-cut her engine-room take after your note
Review
“Refit week 3” storyboard is drafted · 13 cards, 4:12
Two beats still to film. Approve or send it back.
Open
“Biscay” is reconciling · 3 rows block confirmation
Nobody is paid until they clear
Confirm
DDauvOon Crowdflow
Open · 2 days left
Film your night watch.
Phone footage is fine. The cold, the coffee, the light on the horizon.
Contributors share20%
split byseconds used
Submit your footage
Your studio, and the page your viewers get. The whole loop.

A channel runs at the speed of one person.

You can batch. You can plan a month ahead and hire an editor. You still have to be somewhere with a camera for every second that goes out, and the week you cannot be is the week the channel goes quiet. Meanwhile the people watching are standing in the places you would film, holding better cameras than you had five years ago.

How it works
One

Ask for the shot

Post a Story Call: what you need, by when, and the share on offer. It goes out as a link. Your viewers film it on the phones already in their pockets.

DNight watch
01The moment you take over the watch. The handover, whatever is said.
02One thing you do to stay awake. Honest versions preferred.
03The sky when your watch ends. Hold the shot.
Deadline26 Aug · +72h grace
Storyboards / Nine days on one gearboxApprove this cut
04
Cutaway to the gearbox on the dock while the line lands.
0:45 → 0:56 · 11s · L-cut
06
Nobody filmed this
The lift going back in. Wide, from the pontoon.
Two

Keep what earns its place

Footage arrives transcribed, described and searchable. You accept what you want, decline the rest, and a storyboard orders the keepers into a cut. It even tells you which shot nobody filmed yet. Nothing reaches a video without you saying so.

Three

Pay from the video that shipped

Upload the finished cut and Crowdflow reads it back against the library to work out whose footage is actually in it, not whose was planned. The share splits by seconds used, and every contributor can see the arithmetic behind their own figure.

The receipt · Crossing the Bay of Biscay
Gross, July$3,120.00Pot 1 · Priya @ 18%$561.60Pot 2 · 25% ÷ 347s used$780.00To contributors$1,341.60Channel keeps$1,778.40
Seconds fingerprinted from the delivered file. Rates snapshot at confirmation.
The deal

You set the numbers before anybody films, and they print on every public call page exactly as set. A worked month, and the card a contributor reads:

A $3,000 video month
pot · 20%$600 across contributorsprotagonist · 18%$540 moreyou keep$1,860
If a video makes nothing, a share of it is nothing. Nobody invoices you.
DWhat a contributor reads
Contributors share20%
split byseconds used
carry the video, get18% alone
They keep ownership. The license is per video. They watch their own arithmetic on an earnings page.
What you are probably worried about
Losing control of the channel

You approve every clip and every cut. A Story Call is a request, not a queue that publishes itself.

Owing people money

A share is a percentage of what a video makes. You set the rate before anybody films. If a video makes nothing, a share of it is nothing.

The paperwork

Contributors keep ownership and license the footage to your channel. Acceptance is recorded with a timestamp before a single file uploads.

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In build

The same ledger pointed the other way. Perk crowdfunding for a campaign an organiser runs, with tiers at a stated market value, caps, entry tracking and a public budget showing where the money went. Crowdflow never holds the funds, and a backer receives perks and entries rather than a stake.

Your viewers were going to film it anyway.

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