There are two ways to earn: by referring users and by creating premium content.

The first way is by referring users through social media. Any users that are sourced through your referral link, profile link, deck links, or article links are tracked as your referred users. Whenever a user you've referred purchases content with gems, partners in our program earn half of that realized revenue that otherwise would go to Teal. This is typically 25% of the total effective gems value. (For example, if a user purchases content with $10 equivalent gems, then the content creator would get $5, the referrer would get $2.50, and the Teal platform would get $2.50. If you are both the referrer and the content creator, you would get $7.50 total, or 75%.)

The second way is by creating premium content for sale. If you create compelling shows or videos, and charge for episodes, or if you create premium articles that cost gems, you can sell them on Teal. You will earn 50% of the sale of that content. (That would increase to 75% for users that you referred.)

We are especially interested in partners that have a strong ability to refer new users to Teal. This includes having social media reach or an audience on sites like Twitch or YouTube. Please include any relevant information about your audience in the application form.

If you are also a video creator or intend to create premium content, we would love to hear about that too! We are looking for partners that can create high-quality content for sale on the site.

We expect partners to share links through their social media or platforms like Twitter, Bluesky, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Twitch, Discord, or Reddit. When you publish new content, it is encouraged to share that content as well. Please abide by any terms of service or rules of the platform you are using, and don't be spammy.

Users only count as referred users for the first twelve months, not in perpetuity. Any chargebacks, refunds, or website errors will not be eligible for payout to the partner. Teal may run paid ads or other marketing campaigns that link to your content, in which case those users will not count as your referred users, since they were sourced through our efforts. See the Terms of Service for more details.

Teal is made specifically for binging shows and discussing making shows, both real and AI-generated. This attracts a regular audience with daily community engagement. With Patreon and other alternatives, you're largely dependent on your own audience. At Teal, your content is discoverable by the entire community who come here regularly. This value add is why Teal has a default take rate of 50% (comparable to YouTube). By comparison, Patreon won't bring you any new audience, and you are responsible for driving all of your own traffic.

Put another way, if Teal's community can drive more purchases of your content than you could on your own, then it is worth putting your content here. This should be an easy decision, and even popular influencers should see increased purchases above and beyond what they'd get by promoting their content themselves.

The other major difference is that Teal is not built around subscriptions to creators, but rather individual purchases one at a time. This fits well with what a lot of users want: since they're often binging episodes spontaneously, they don't want to pay a monthly fee to a specialized subscription. They'd rather just buy content when they need it, and Teal is built around that idea. If you already have a Patreon, you can always keep it, but also use Teal to reach a wider audience and earn additional revenue streams.

Since we have to pay for payment processing fees and process the payouts, we have a minimum payout of $100 at most once per month. There is also a waiting period from the time a purchase was made on the site to when it is eligible for payout to account for possible chargebacks or refunds (typically 30 days). See the Terms of Service for more details.