Content provider payments

One pool. A transparent share.

Example: US$10,000 eligible net subscription revenue creates a US$4,000 provider pool. This illustration assumes no carried reserve.

All titles belonging to a provider are added together. The 40% funds the entire provider pool; it is not 40% paid separately to each provider.

KINOFLIX CONTENT PROVIDER PAYMENT SCHEDULE

Version 2026-11-07.2 — effective for titles expressly accepted under this version

1. The provider pool: 40% / Kinoflix: 60%

For each calendar month measured in UTC, Kinoflix commits forty percent (40%) of Eligible Net Subscription Revenue to one shared Content Provider Pool. The remaining sixty percent (60%) belongs to Kinoflix before its operating expenses and taxes. The pool is shared collectively among eligible providers, not paid in full to each provider. All films, shorts, series episodes and vlogs accepted under this standard schedule participate at the same rate. A provider's earnings equal the combined allocations of its eligible titles. Ownership of Kinoflix or guaranteed income is not granted.

2. Precisely defined revenue base

Eligible Gross Subscription Revenue is money actually collected and settled for access to Kinoflix's subscription catalog, recognized over the paid access period and converted to USD using the actual settlement conversion rate. A monthly or annual payment covering more than one reporting month is apportioned by the number of paid service days in each month; a yearly payment is not allocated entirely to its sale month. Discounts reduce the amount actually collected. Income from donations, investment, loans, merchandise, rentals, advertising, sponsorships and separately sold services is excluded; those uses require a separate mutually accepted schedule. If another channel sells the same catalog subscription, the base is subscription money Kinoflix actually receives from that channel, and channel commission must be separately itemized. The standard website offer does not include such channel distribution. Eligible Net Subscription Revenue equals that recognized gross amount less only: (a) sales/VAT/GST or similar transaction taxes collected for remittance, (b) actual customer refunds and subscription chargebacks, and (c) actual external payment-processing charges, including processor refund/dispute fees and settlement currency-conversion fees. These amounts are apportioned consistently with the associated service period where applicable, never deducted twice, and itemized in the pool statement. A later refund is reported as a separately identified adjustment in the next open month. The monthly net base cannot be less than zero; ordinary negative monthly balances are borne by Kinoflix and are not carried as a personal debt of a provider. Kinoflix does NOT deduct hosting, streaming, storage, encoding, software, salaries, founder compensation, administration, marketing, SEO, legal costs, general overhead or corporate income taxes before applying 40%. Those costs come from its 60% share. No undisclosed general expense deduction is allowed.

3. Allocation formula and rounding

New Pool = 0.40 × Eligible Net Subscription Revenue. New Pool is rounded to the nearest whole USD cent, with half cents rounded up. Distributable Pool = New Pool + any unallocated provider reserve brought forward from earlier months. Title Royalty = Distributable Pool × (that title's Qualified Watch Seconds ÷ all participating titles' Qualified Watch Seconds). Each title is calculated in whole cents using largest-remainder allocation: initial amounts are rounded down and leftover cents go in descending fractional-remainder order, with title ID breaking ties. The sum of title allocations therefore equals the whole Distributable Pool. Provider Royalty is the sum of its title allocations. There is no fixed dollar rate per view, minute, upload, subscriber or title; the effective minute rate changes with revenue and total viewing. A title with no qualified viewing earns zero.

4. Qualified watch time and equal treatment

Only actual playback time recorded by Kinoflix's server-validated playback system while a title is approved, licensed, available to the viewer, and covered by this accepted commercial schedule qualifies. Viewing must be by a verified real paying subscriber, including a subscriber whose access is funded by an authorized paid gift. Valid paid annual membership viewing counts throughout its service period. Free trials, free promotional access, samples, trailers, owner/administrator previews, beta tests, sandbox or simulated subscriptions, creator self-views and unverified or unpaid access do not qualify. Skipped time, seeks and paused/buffering intervals do not count as watched time. No completed-view minimum is required; a valid partial view counts for its measured seconds. Repeated valid viewing counts, capped at one submitted title runtime per subscriber account per title per UTC day. Playback events are deduplicated and bounded by server elapsed time. Overlapping streams, bots, purchased traffic, incentivized viewing intended primarily to inflate royalties, account farms, scripted loops and other artificial activity are excluded. Kinoflix may correct technically invalid measurements and investigate suspicious activity using documented, consistently applied criteria; it cannot arbitrarily change the 40% or favor selected providers. Format, popularity, price tier, country and provider seniority do not create extra weighting under this shared global model. Short works earn according to time genuinely watched; artificial splitting or padded runtimes do not increase qualified time.

5. No-view months and carried reserve

If no title has qualified viewing during a month, that month's full provider pool remains an unallocated provider reserve and is added to the next month with eligible viewing. It is not converted into Kinoflix profit. The reserve balance and movements must appear in statements. Reserve records must be reconciled before a commercial monthly close. If the service permanently closes, an unallocated reserve is distributed among providers with qualified viewing in the preceding twelve months in proportion to that viewing. If there has never been eligible viewing, the reserve is returned to affected subscribers proportionately where practicable, or handled as required by applicable law; it is not forfeited to Kinoflix by default.

6. Statements and payment timing

Kinoflix will publish monthly statements within 30 calendar days after month-end and initiate payment no later than 45 calendar days after month-end for a provider whose total finalized unpaid balance is at least US$25 and whose payment/tax verification is complete. A statement shows reporting month, recognized subscription base, each permitted deduction, new pool, carried reserve, total qualified seconds, the provider's title seconds and percentage, royalties, corrections, applicable withholding and payment status. Estimates may change before close and are labeled as estimates. A finalized amount is corrected through a separately identified adjustment and explanation, not silently overwritten. Balances below US$25 roll forward without expiration or maintenance fees. Regardless of threshold, a positive undisputed balance is paid at least annually by March 31 for the preceding calendar year, subject to verification and legal restrictions. After all of a provider's titles are withdrawn or the agreement terminates, the remaining positive balance is paid within 60 days after the final earning month, regardless of threshold, subject to verification and resolution of genuinely disputed amounts. Banking delays after initiation are outside Kinoflix's control; failed payments are investigated and reissued after corrected details. Earnings and estimates are not a bank deposit or escrow account and do not earn interest.

7. Payment method, currency and taxes

The default accounting currency is USD. Initially payments may be initiated manually by Kinoflix through a supported payment provider or bank transfer and recorded in the dashboard; automated payouts are not promised or enabled merely by signing this agreement. No card number, government tax identifier or bank password should be entered in an upload, public profile, review note or ordinary support message. Kinoflix will arrange a secure verification/payment channel before commercial earnings begin. Supported countries depend on payment-provider, banking and sanctions requirements; approval of a title does not guarantee that a particular payout method or country is supported. Kinoflix will verify eligibility before commercial activation. Kinoflix bears its ordinary outgoing payout fees. The recipient bears only its bank's separately imposed incoming or optional conversion fees, disclosed where known; those fees do not reduce the 40% pool. Local-currency settlement uses the provider's disclosed actual conversion rate without a hidden Kinoflix markup. Licensor must provide appropriate tax documentation through the designated secure channel, such as W-9 or relevant W-8 documentation where applicable. Kinoflix may withhold only amounts required by law and will supply required reporting. Withholding is from the particular provider's payment, not a deduction from other providers' pool. Licensor is responsible for its own tax returns and contributor payments. Unsupported or incomplete payment details suspend remittance, not the accrued lawful debt; legally required abandoned-property rules still apply.

8. Fraud review, corrections and disputes

Kinoflix may hold only the reasonably disputed portion while it investigates identified fraud, a rights conflict or payment restriction, and must pay the undisputed eligible balance on time. It will give the provider a reason and status update at least every 30 days, unless law prohibits notice. Correcting confirmed artificial viewing requires recalculating affected allocations fairly; a provider is not charged personally for ordinary customer refunds or platform operating losses. Recovery of a documented mistaken overpayment is limited to future royalties unless fraud, willful misconduct or a separately agreed repayment arrangement justifies another remedy. Provider questions should be raised within 90 days of receiving a statement; this administrative window does not waive nonwaivable rights or claims for concealed errors. Kinoflix will acknowledge a dispute within ten business days and aim to resolve it within 30 days or explain the remaining investigation. On 30 days' written notice, once per calendar year, the provider may have an independent accountant review relevant pool and title allocation records for the prior two years, under reasonable confidentiality safeguards and without access to other viewers' personal data or unrelated providers' confidential contracts. The provider pays review costs unless it finds an underpayment exceeding 5% of the amounts due for the reviewed period, in which case Kinoflix reimburses reasonable review costs and promptly pays the shortfall. Royalty and reconciliation records are retained for at least seven years where lawful; raw personal viewing data need not be retained that long if aggregate records support the calculation.

9. Activation, beta and no retroactive conversion

This is the standard commercial schedule for every title whose provider expressly signs version 2026-11-07.2. Uploading authorizes private review immediately. Commercial earnings start only after acceptance, owner approval, actual commercial release, real paid subscriber availability and payment eligibility verification. The dashboard must identify the release date. Beta/sandbox playback remains unpaid. The platform remains in beta until its commercial release checks are complete; signing does not launch it, promise a launch date, or make earlier tests payable. Older beta-only agreements remain beta-only until the provider explicitly signs this version. A live release must not proceed while reconciliation, notice, verified watch-time or payment requirements are unavailable.

10. Stable standard terms

The 40% commitment, allowed deductions and allocation basis apply equally to participating titles. Kinoflix may improve a provider's terms by a signed addendum; a separate fixed-fee or exclusive acquisition must explicitly explain its treatment in the pool and cannot silently reduce the promised common pool. This standard does not authorize such exceptions automatically. A reduction in the 40%, expansion of deductions, or material allocation change requires the affected provider's express acceptance before applying to its licensed title. Existing earned amounts are unaffected. A provider may decline new terms and withdraw. The schedule is incorporated in the title's signed distribution agreement and retained with its acceptance record.