FameSpot

How you earn, when you get paid, and what control you keep over what appears on your domain.

1. What you are providing

You grant FameSpot the right to host a Fame page for your site and to display advertisers on it, on a subdomain you control and point at us. You keep ownership of your domain, your audience and your site.

You confirm you are authorised to add DNS records for the domain you connect, and that you own or control the website it represents.

2. Money

Revenue share

You receive 50% of every successful takeover on your Fame page, and FameSpot receives the other 50%.

The split is applied to the amount that remains after payment processing fees are deducted from what the advertiser pays — not to the gross amount. Processing fees are charged by Stripe on the full transaction and are shared equally between us, so neither side carries them alone.

Worked example. On a $10 takeover with a $0.65 processing fee, $9.35 remains, of which you receive $4.68 and FameSpot receives $4.67 — where the remainder cannot be divided evenly, the extra cent goes to you. Because part of the fee is a fixed amount per transaction rather than a percentage, it represents a larger proportion of a small takeover than a large one: on a $1 takeover the fee can exceed a quarter of the total.

Processing fees are set by Stripe, not by FameSpot, and vary with the advertiser's card and currency. Because the exact fee is only known after a payment settles, the split is calculated using an estimate of the fee at the time of the takeover. We do not profit from the difference between the estimate and the actual fee: where the estimate is higher than the fee charged, the surplus stays with FameSpot and is not deducted again elsewhere; where it is lower, FameSpot absorbs the shortfall.

How you are paid

Payments are processed through Stripe Connect. Your share is transferred to your connected Stripe account at the moment the advertiser pays — we do not hold your money and there is nothing for you to withdraw from FameSpot.

Stripe then pays out from your connected account to your bank. New accounts are set up with a 7 day delay between a takeover being paid and those funds becoming available for payout. Stripe may apply a longer minimum depending on your country, and you can adjust your payout frequency in your Stripe dashboard.

The delay exists so that a refund or chargeback can be reversed before the money has left. It applies to how soon funds reach your bank; it does not reduce what you earn, and it does not delay your share arriving in your connected Stripe account, which happens immediately.

Payout minimums, verification holds and the mechanics of the transfer to your bank are governed by your agreement with Stripe.

You must complete Stripe's onboarding and identity verification before your Fame page can accept takeovers. We cannot publish your page until that is done.

Changes to the split

FameSpot may change the revenue share, and the way payment processing fees are shared, at any time — for example to reflect operating costs, changes in payment processing costs, or changes to the service.

Any change applies only to takeovers reserved after it takes effect. The share applied to a takeover is the one in effect at the moment that takeover is reserved, and it is never recalculated afterwards. Takeovers already reserved, currently held, or already settled are unaffected by a later change, including amounts already paid to you.

We will notify you by email at least 14 days before a change takes effect. If you do not wish to continue on the new terms, you may unpublish your Fame page or close your account at any time, and doing so before the change takes effect means it never applies to you. Continuing to accept takeovers after the change takes effect means you accept the new share.

Refunds and reversals

If a takeover is refunded — for fraud, a chargeback, or a failure on our side — the corresponding share is reversed from your balance. If those funds have already been paid out to your bank, the reversal may leave your connected Stripe account with a negative balance, which Stripe recovers from your subsequent earnings. Where a chargeback is caused by fraudulent payment rather than any act of yours, we will not seek to recover more than the amount originally credited.

Taxes

You are responsible for declaring and paying tax on your earnings. We do not withhold tax on your behalf. Stripe may issue tax documentation depending on your jurisdiction.

3. Control over what appears

Advertisers are reviewed before approval, but you retain a say in what appears on your domain.

You can report the advertiser currently holding your page at any time.
We will remove an advertiser where you have a reasonable objection to their appearing on your domain.
You can unlist your Fame page, which stops new takeovers.

Unlisting does not remove the advertiser who currently holds the position. They paid for that spot and keep it until it is taken or the page is removed. If you need an advertiser removed immediately, report them and contact us.

4. Your pricing

You set the starting price and the minimum increment an advertiser must beat the current holder by. You may change these at any time, but changes apply only to future takeovers — a price cannot be changed under an advertiser who has already paid, and changing the starting price does not reset a page whose ladder has already begun.

5. Your obligations

Your site must not contain malware, phishing, illegal content or adult content.
Traffic estimates you publish must be given in good faith and must not be knowingly inflated.
You must not artificially generate views or clicks on your own Fame page, whether manually, by script, or by incentivising others.
You must not take over your own Fame page for the purpose of manufacturing apparent demand.

Manufacturing traffic or takeovers is grounds for immediate suspension and forfeiture of unpaid earnings. Advertisers make spending decisions on these numbers.

6. Suspension and termination

We may suspend a publisher account or Fame page if we believe this agreement has been breached. Suspension stops new takeovers and removes your page from the marketplace. Earnings already credited for legitimate takeovers remain yours.

You may leave at any time by removing the DNS record and unlisting your page. Your Fame History remains a public record of takeovers that occurred while you participated.

7. No guarantee of earnings

FameSpot does not guarantee that any advertiser will take over your page, or any level of earnings. Demand depends on your audience and on advertiser interest, neither of which we control.

8. Changes

We may update this agreement. Material changes will be notified by email and require acceptance. The version you accepted is recorded against your account.

This agreement operates alongside our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Publisher Agreement