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26 October 2026
Three new earning systems for uploaders: Pay-Per-Sale, public creator pages and Watch+
Announced to uploaders by email on 26 October 2026, with a feature overview published on the platform.
CloudFam has added three systems aimed at uploaders: a commission paid on access pass sales rather than on download advertising, a public page that gathers a creator’s uploads under one link, and an ad free streaming section that pays video uploaders out of a shared monthly pool.
What was announced
1Pay-Per-Sale
An alternative to download advertising. When a visitor buys an access pass after arriving through a shared file or an embedded video, the uploader is credited 60% of the first purchase and 40% of every renewal. Earnings are added to the account balance in US dollars.
On the buyer side the pass removes advertising, countdowns and captcha, and lifts the speed limit, which is what the passes already do when bought directly.
2Public creator pages
A single public link, built from a handle chosen by the uploader, where an audience can browse the files or buy a pass. The page runs in one of three modes:
- All files, showing the whole library;
- Specific folder, showing one selected folder only;
- Pricing only, hiding the file list and leaving a shop front.
The handle, display name and biography are set by the uploader, and the account username stays private. Pass sales through the page pay the same 60% and 40% as above.
3Watch+
An ad free streaming section for video uploaders. Each month 60% of subscription revenue goes into a creator pool, shared according to each uploader’s share of total watch time.
One condition matters more than the headline rate: a view counts toward the payout only if the subscriber watches at least 40% of the video. Uploaders get viewing hours, view counts and earnings in the dashboard.
What Pay-Per-Sale pays in practice
The commission applies to the access passes already sold on the download pages. Against the prices listed there, the stated split works out as follows.
| Access pass | Price | First purchase, 60% | Each renewal, 40% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24-Hour Pass | $2.00 | $1.20 | not a recurring pass |
| 30-Day Monthly Pass | $14.99 | $8.99 | $6.00 |
| 90-Day Quarterly Pass | $34.99 | $20.99 | $14.00 |
| 1-Year VIP Pass | $84.99 | $50.99 | $34.00 |
Pass prices as published on the CloudFam download page, checked 8 October 2026. The percentages are the ones stated in the announcement.
A buyer who takes a monthly pass and renews it returns $8.99 in the first month and $6.00 in each month after. Twelve months of a renewed monthly pass therefore pay about $74.99, while a single yearly pass sold once pays $50.99 and then nothing until it comes up for renewal. The longer pass is the better deal for the buyer and the smaller one for the uploader, which is worth knowing before pushing the annual tier.
How this differs from download advertising
Download advertising pays on volume: every completed download counts, whatever the visitor does next. Pay-Per-Sale pays on conversion, so a hundred downloads that produce no purchase pay nothing, while a small audience that buys can pay considerably more.
The two models reward different traffic. Large, casual, low intent audiences suit the per download rate. Smaller audiences that return and will pay for faster access suit the commission.
The ad blocker angle. On the standard model a visitor browsing with an ad blocker produces no advertising revenue, and the uploader is credited nothing for that download. Watch+ and Pay-Per-Sale both change what happens to that visitor: if they buy a pass or a subscription instead, they move from zero to a share of a payment. For uploaders whose audience blocks ads heavily, that is the part of this announcement that matters most.
How the pool behaves. Watch+ does not pay a fixed rate per view. The 60% share is divided among participating uploaders in proportion to watch time, so an individual payout moves with two things at once: how much subscribers watch a given catalogue, and how much they watch everybody else’s. If the number of videos in the pool grows faster than the number of subscribers, the value of each watched minute falls even when an uploader’s own audience has not changed. The 40% completion rule tightens this further, since a view abandoned early counts for nothing at all.
What the creator pages change
The public page is a distribution feature rather than a payment one. It replaces a scattering of individual file links with one address that can be shared once, and it puts the pass purchase in front of visitors who came for the files. No rate changes because of it, but it shortens the distance between a visitor and a purchase, which is where Pay-Per-Sale earns. The pricing only mode makes that explicit, since it drops the file list entirely.
In short
- Pay-Per-Sale suits uploaders whose audience converts, and pays more over time on renewed monthly subscriptions than on a single long pass.
- Public creator pages cost nothing to use and mainly change how an audience is pointed at the files.
- Watch+ applies to video uploads only. Its rate per minute is not fixed in advance, and views under 40% completion do not count.
Existing download advertising rates are unchanged by these additions. The earning models already available on the platform are set out on the earnings page, and the passes being sold are compared on the access pass page.
Uploading and the three systems above are available on a standard account.