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Rate card v4Per 1,000 credited downloads

PAYOUT
RATES

Paid per 1,000 credited downloads, priced by where your downloader is. Three tiers, one rate card, the same for every publisher.

$5.00
Minimum payout
5%
Referral cut
Per 1,000 credited downloads
TIER 1Top of the card$8.00
TIER 2Middle band$5.00
TIER 3Everywhere else$3.00
The tier follows the downloader, never you and never the file. One link can pay all three prices in the same hour.
The registerNamed country by country
TIER 115 countries$8.00

United States,Canada,United Kingdom,Australia,New Zealand,Ireland,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,Norway,Denmark,Switzerland,Austria,Belgium,Finland

TIER 215 countries$5.00

France,Italy,Spain,Japan,South Korea,Singapore,Israel,United Arab Emirates,Saudi Arabia,Qatar,Kuwait,Portugal,Czechia,Poland,Greece

TIER 3All other countries$3.00
Everywhere not named on the other two lists.

Indiaand every other country not listed above

If a country isn't listed under tier 1 or tier 2, downloads from it are paid at the tier 3 rate.

Unknown country → tier 3 Unresolved IP → tier 3 Every country pays

What counts
as a download.

Four rules decide whether a finished download is paid. They run before anything reaches your dashboard, so the figure you see is the figure you are paid on.

01
Counted on bytes, not time

A download pays once 90% of the file has reached the visitor, however many requests it took to get there. A resumed transfer still counts. A transfer that stops short counts for nothing, and no stopwatch is involved anywhere.

02
One credit per visitor per day

The first publisher to convert a visitor inside 24 hours is paid; every later one in the same window is not, across the whole site. At most 4 devices behind one address can be credited in that window.

03
What is never counted

Downloads from datacentre ranges, requests the edge scores as automated, and your own downloads from the address you last signed in on. The refusal is recorded against the event, so the figure on your dashboard is the figure you are paid.

04
A closed day is final

Each event is priced at the downloader's country the moment they ask, and that amount is written once. A later change to the card does not reach it. Nothing reverses a completed payout.

Where the money comes fromAd policy

Clean pages.
Google only.

Your payouts are funded by the Google ads on our download pages. We keep those pages clean, which keeps advertisers paying well and your visitors coming back.

What runs

Google Ad Manager and nothing else. No shady networks, no redirects.

A few standard ad slots that are reserved before the page settles, so nothing jumps under a click.

Clear space around the download button, so nobody taps an ad by mistake.

What never runs

Pop-ups, pop-unders or surprise tabs.

Ads dressed up as download buttons.

Clicking an ad to unlock the file.

Link lockers or chains of shorteners.

Waiting on an ad that never loads.

Download page · sketchNot to scale
Slot top · 728×90 · GAM
Slot inline · 300×250
Clearance · nothing may sit here
Download
Slot anchor · 320×50

If an ad is blocked or fails to load, the download goes ahead anyway. Your visitors never get stuck.

Worked example · 10,000 credited downloads
All tier 1
$80.00
All tier 2
$50.00
All tier 3
$30.00
Mixed, as traffic usually is
$45.00
Mixed assumes 20% tier 1, 25% tier 2, 55% tier 3.
No premium upsell

Downloaders never pay us and their bytes are never shaped, so there is no slow lane to sell an escape from. What they do pay is attention: the link routes them through ad pages on the way in.

Paid every week

Cash out from $5.00. Payouts go out weekly to UPI, bank transfer, PayPal or crypto.

Referrals pay 5%

Bring another publisher and earn 5% of what they make. It comes from us, never out of their earnings.

Same card for everyone

No side deals. Every publisher earns from the same rate card, big or small.