Affiliate terms, in plain English

A live local news site for your community and the affiliate tools listed on the plan page. Features marked Coming soon are not included until they are released.

Nothing up front. No card, no deposit, no setup fee. A small platform fee comes out of your earnings each month, and never more than you earned, so a slow month costs you nothing. Your monthly fee depends on your community size: $39 a month for 5,000 to 9,999 residents; $59 a month for 10,000 to 19,999 residents; $89 a month for 20,000 to 39,999 residents; $119 a month for 40,000 or more residents. No long contract. Cancel anytime.

You have 14 days to finish your launch checklist and 60 days to sign your first sponsor. After that, keep publishing and selling. If a town goes quiet, we give you 7 days of notice, then reopen it to the next person on the waitlist. Your stories stay yours.

You may sell the ad placements on your site to local businesses using our rate card. We invoice the advertiser and collect the money. Keep 40% of ad revenue you sell up to $1,000 a month, 50% from $1,000 to $3,000, and 60% above $3,000. Each rate applies only to the dollars in that band. For your first 90 days you keep 70% of everything you sell. When the advertiser pays, we pay you by the 15th of the following month. If an advertiser does not pay, no share is owed for that ad.

Money you earn outside our ad spots, such as events, your own newsletter or memberships, freelance writing, workshops, ads you sell on your own podcast, and sponsored articles you write and sell yourself, is yours to keep. We take no cut of it. A sponsored article must clearly say who paid for it.

When we sell an ad across many communities and it runs on your site, we pay you 30% of the revenue for as long as it runs there.

Ads are sold to third parties and billed by us. If you or your family own the advertiser, you earn no commission on that ad. Your own business can take up to 2 rail, in-article, native or partner spots, and the ad is labeled as owned by the affiliate. Title sponsorships and banners are for other businesses, so every local business gets a fair shot.

Your name, headshot and bio appear with your stories, takes on games and events. You are the face of your community site, so keep it accurate and professional.

If a business you introduced buys another of our products, we pay you 20% of what they pay for the first 12 months, when they pay.

You own what you create. You give us permission to show, share and promote it on the site. Only post things you made or have permission to use. Do not copy other publishers.

No illegal, defamatory or misleading content. Ads must be clearly labeled. Political ads need a proper paid-for-by line. No fake reviews. We can remove content or pause a site that breaks these rules.

You run your own business and handle your own taxes. You are not our employee, partner or agent. We send tax forms when the law requires them.

We do not promise traffic, sponsors or income. Results vary, and some affiliates earn little or nothing.

Either of us can end this with 30 days notice. We can end it right away if the rules are broken. Your original stories stay yours, and we pay any share you have already earned.

We may update these terms. We will give you 30 days notice by email. Continuing after that means you accept the update.

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