Vision Theater Creator
How creators are paid
Updated 14 September 2026
Two ways to earn: premiere tickets for a single experience, and a share of the monthly subscription pool for watch time. Both are for Vision Creators; both pay only for 180°, 360° and Wide work. Payouts arrive through Stripe, into the bank account you connect under Earnings.
The split
Apple collects all viewer money and takes its commission first. Vision Theater takes 20% of the sale. Everything else is the creators’: 65% of every sale. Worked through on the monthly subscription:
$17.99 subscription -$2.70 Apple's commission (15% Small Business rate) -$3.60 Vision Theater (20% of the sale) $11.69 to creators — 65% of the sale
The same shape applies to premiere tickets: on a $9.99 ticket, $1.50 to Apple, $2.00 to Vision Theater, $6.49 to the creator. Vision Theater’s 20% does not change with Apple’s rate, so if Apple’s commission rises to 30% (above $1M a year), the creator share becomes 50% of the sale.
Premiere revenue
You set the ticket prices — a 48-hour rental and optionally a keep-it price — within a ceiling set by the experience’s length:
| Running time | Ceiling |
|---|---|
| Under 10 minutes | cannot premiere |
| 10–15 minutes | $5.99 |
| 15–20 minutes | $9.99 |
| Longer | $19.99 |
Premium members pay half price for one premiere per month; a rental already bought is credited if the viewer then keeps the experience. Two runs per experience, thirty days each at most, and then it joins the subscription for good.
The subscription pool
Each month’s subscription revenue (after the split above) forms a pool, divided by qualifying watch time:
- 80% is divided across premium work; 20% across quality free work by Vision Creators. Creator-tier uploads never draw from either.
- A view qualifies when an active Premium member watches at least half the running time. Views by you, by staff, or by people who are not subscribed are recorded in your analytics and never pay.
- 180° and Wide each carry 40% more weight than 360°. Other formats do not earn.
- One qualifying view per member per experience per month — replays do not add.
- Months settle finally: once a pool is distributed it is never reopened.
Where this stands
The first pool settles at the end of the first full month — your Analytics screen says exactly which of your views would have counted and why the others did not. Finer engagement tiers (paying progressively more at 60–90% watched) and skip-resistant measurement are part of the model and arrive before the first settlement. Nothing in this document promises revenue; it promises how revenue divides when it exists.
Refunds
Apple decides refunds. A refunded purchase loses its access, and refunded amounts never enter the pool.