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so guys i build app called flock i would tell its features first and then explain how they are been done

1. You get 90% of the net ad revenue

YouTube gives you 55% of the gross ad revenue. On Flock, you get 90% of the net revenue from all the videos you upload. (I’ll break down the exact math at the end of the post so you can see how much more money this actually is).

2. Ads are capped and fully in your control

All ads on the platform are skippable in 5 seconds. As a creator, you can put one ad at the start of your video. To add mid-roll ads, your video has to be at least 8 minutes long, and you can only place one every 8 minutes.

The best part: It caps at 5 ads. Even if you upload a 4-hour video, it will never show more than 5 ads, and you decide exactly where they go.

3. Clips (Short-form) pay per view

You can also upload short-form videos (I call them Clips, kind of like TikToks or Instagram Reels). The big difference here is that you actually get paid a fair, calculated rate for every single view.

In the Clips feed, an ad shows like how in tik tok and youtube shorts . At the end of every month, we calculate the total ad revenue generated by all the Clips on the app. We also count up the total number of Clips views across the entire platform for that month.

We then divide the total revenue by the total views to figure out the exact Revenue Per View. Once we know exactly how much a single view is worth, we just check your specific monthly views and pay you your exact fair cut based on that math.

4. Built-in Communities (like Reddit)

I wanted users to be free from relying entirely on a recommendation algorithm. So, I built a community feature right into the app. You can build your own community, your followers can join, and you can reach them directly without praying the algorithm picks you up.

Because the app only takes a 10% net cut i need some more way for revenue . So, Communities also generate revenue to keep things running. Ads are shown between post in the feed like reddit . We take the total monthly ad revenue from a community and split it:

• 25% goes to the Community Owner (the creator).
• 25% goes to Flock (to keep the servers on).
• 50% goes to the users who actually made the posts in that community, based on their post views.

5. The 4-Tier Recommendation Ladder

Instead of a black box, the recommendation algorithm is fully transparent. When you upload you set a 4-tier tagging funnel that creators set when uploading:

• Tier 1 (Broad): Gaming, Music, Entertainment, etc.
• Tier 2 (Genre): If it’s gaming, is it FPS, RPG, etc.?
• Tier 3 (Specific): Which exact game, movie, or anime?
• Tier 4 (Type): Is it a speedrun, a review, a let’s play?
• for eg Gaming -> FPS -> Halo -> Speedrun

This tells the app exactly who to test your video on first. and for how videos move like how they scale is this way

• Tier 1 (The Audition): A new video is shown to a small crowd of hardcore fans in your exact niche. We measure how they react (watch time, likes, shares vs. swipe-aways) for ex a halo speedrun watcher that watched it a lot of time .
• Tier 2 (Proven with the first crowd): If the niche fans loved it, it gets promoted to a wider audience (the broader genre) eg now they gernal halo not only speedrun are shown .
• Tier 3 (Proven at scale): If the genre crowd keeps engaging, it opens up to a huge, general audience eg (it reaches fps people who have intrest in fps ).
• Tier 4 (The Top): It proved itself at every step, so it’s pushed to the widest possible audience on the app eg games people who just love games would also be shown .

Growth is judged per-viewer, not by raw view counts. A video only moves up a tier if a high percentage of the people who saw it actually enjoyed it. A small video that everyone loves will climb to the top, while a big video that people start ignoring will stall. You earn a bigger audience by actually pleasing the one you have.

6. Anti-Clickbait "i" button

Every video has an "i" (info) button on the thumbnail. You can click it to see the like/dislike and read the comments before you even click on the video. so you can check if it is a clickbait or not .

no ai video is allowed on they platfrom no ai images

also you make money from very start like ads show on your video from view 1 not like youtube 1000 hours or something system system they have

The Math: How the 90% Net Revenue actually works

The biggest cost for a video sharing app is streaming bandwidth (the data cost to deliver the video to a phone). I managed to find a very solid, cheap data provider (way cheaper than standard AWS or Google Cloud pricing) at just $0.005 / GB.

Every month, I calculate the total delivery data cost for your videos and subtract it from the total ad revenue those videos made. You get 90% of what's left, and Flock takes 10%.

Some people might say, "Wait, YouTube takes 45% upfront, but you're deducting costs first?" Yes, but the difference is massive because our costs are hyper-optimized. Here is a real example using a 100k view, 12-minute video with a $6 CPM:

• Total Ad Revenue Made: $600.00
• Video Delivery Cost: Thanks to our highly efficient streaming codecs, delivering 100k views on this video costs exactly $75.00.

Flock App Calculation:

• We subtract the delivery cost first: $600.00 - $75.00 = $525.00 (This is the net pool we split).
• You get 90%: $472.50
• Flock takes 10%: $52.50

YouTube Calculation:

• YouTube takes 45% upfront from the total $600.
• You get 55%: $330.00
• youtube takes: $270

Even after paying for the exact cost to stream your video , you walk away with $142.50 more on Flock than you would on YouTube for the exact same video.

and lets say if they app gets more users it would get even better they streaming cost would go down even more eneterprice discount so you would make even more

tell me guys what you think about they app currently it is on playstore here is they link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycompany.flock