Tonight & every night · member-funded

Give your work a premiere, not a feed slot.

HouTV is the screening room for independent video: your members buy the tickets, you keep the box office, and the picture is always 4K with the ads left on the cutting-room floor.

Now showing

From creators on HouTV
4K The films we return to
MARA VANCE · 38K VIEWS
NEW One lens, one short film
MARA VANCE · 21K VIEWS
4K Scoring for tiny orchestras
OTIS REY · 12K VIEWS
MEMBERS Bread, slowly
ANA KIM · 30K VIEWS

The house rules

Three numbers, no fine print
8%Flat platform fee. No listing fees, no monthly charge — ever.
4KUltra HD projection on every screen that can carry it.
0Advertisements. Your members paid for the whole reel.

How HouTV compares

HouTV · Patreon · YouTube
HouTV Patreon YouTubememberships
Platform fee8%10%30%
You keep, from every $10/mo$9.20$9.00$7.00
Max video quality4K Ultra HD1080p4K
Ad-free for your membersAlwaysYesOnly with Premium
Built for video firstYesPosts firstYes

BASED ON EACH PLATFORM'S PUBLISHED PRICING · STANDARD PAYMENT PROCESSING APPLIES ON EVERY PLATFORM

Your run, in three acts

From first reel to steady income
Act I

Open your channel

Sign up, dress the stage, and upload your first picture in up to 4K Ultra HD. No fee to open the doors.

Act II

Sell the tickets

Set monthly membership tiers and mark your best work members-only. Your audience buys in directly.

Act III

Collect at the door

Stripe delivers the box office every month. You keep 92 cents of every dollar, and storage grows with your run.

The house takes less. Read the receipt.

On a $10 monthly membership, HouTV keeps 80 cents. Patreon keeps a dollar — and caps your picture at 1080p. YouTube keeps three dollars and runs trailers you didn't approve.

Payouts arrive monthly through Stripe, and your included storage grows automatically as your membership does.

★ BOX OFFICE ★

ONE (1) MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP — $10.00
HOUTV · FEE 8%YOU KEEP $9.20
PATREON · FEE 10%YOU KEEP $9.00
YOUTUBE · FEE 30%YOU KEEP $7.00
BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSEHOUTV
STANDARD CARD PROCESSING APPLIES EVERYWHERE · NO REFUNDS NEEDED

Open casting

Every kind of creator belongs on this bill

Questions, answered

Asked at the box office
How much does HouTV cost?

Nothing to open the doors. Starting a channel and uploading are free — we take a flat 8% of membership revenue when you get paid, and that's the whole bill. Payouts run through Stripe.

What video quality can I upload?

Up to 4K Ultra HD. Every upload is transcoded into an adaptive range of resolutions, so each member gets the sharpest stream their screen and connection can carry — a proper projection, every time.

Who can earn on HouTV?

Any video creator with an audience willing to buy a ticket — essayists, educators, musicians, filmmakers, podcasters and more. If you make video people would pay for, you belong on this bill.

How do members-only videos work?

Set monthly tiers and mark any video members-only. Active members at the right tier walk straight in; everyone else sees a courteous invitation to join the membership.

How do I get paid?

Connect Stripe once during setup. Memberships are charged monthly and your share — 92 cents of every dollar — arrives automatically. No invoices, no chasing.

What about storage?

Every creator starts with free storage that grows automatically as your paid membership grows — the archive scales with the run, at no extra charge.

Make video worth paying for.

Open your own screening room tonight — the projector is already warm.

Start your channel →

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