Nebula
Plenty for users Stage 1
Nebula was built by creators for creators as an alternative to YouTube’s ad-revenue model. Standard Broadcast, the company behind it, is majority-owned by the creators whose work appears on the platform. Subscribers pay a flat fee; no ads, no algorithmic manipulation of watch time. The revenue share is transparent and weighted toward production. Modest price increases track costs rather than extraction—this is what stage 1 looks like at consumer scale.
- Since
- 2019
- Function
- Streaming
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- No
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