Sharing Ad Revenue with Guest Authors

The guest revenue sharing feature allows you to share your blog's advertising revenue with guest authors. This is managed through a series of settings and settlements that determine how revenue is distributed. Revenue is settled automatically on the 15th of each month, and you can manage guest settings and view settlement history through the dashboard.

To manage guest revenue share settings, navigate to the 'Guest revenue share' section of your blog's dashboard. Here, you can view a list of active guests and their respective revenue share percentages.

Important: the percentage you set is a share of your 60% owner cut of ad revenue, not of the full ad price. When an ad is approved on your blog, 60% of what the advertiser paid goes to you, 10% to the affiliate program, and 30% to the platform — that 60% owner share is the pool your guests' percentage is taken from.

• Add a guest: pick an eligible team member (any collaborator who isn't the blog owner) from the list and set a percentage from 0-100%.
• Change a guest's share: click 'Change' next to an active guest to adjust their percentage. The new rate only applies to revenue generated after the change — revenue already generated keeps the percentage that was in effect at the time.
• Remove a guest: click 'Remove' to stop sharing revenue with them going forward. This does not affect revenue already held or already paid out.

The 'Current Period Revenue' section provides an overview of the revenue held so far in the current month. This includes:

• Owner Total: The amount of revenue allocated to you.
• Guest Totals: The revenue allocated to each guest based on their share percentage.
• Total Held: The total revenue held for the current period, which will be settled on the 15th of the following month.

The 'Settlement History' section displays all past settlements, including the period, role (owner or guest), total amount, and status. Settlement statuses include:

• Locked: Revenue is calculated and awaiting payout.
• Processing: Payout is in progress.
• Paid: Revenue has been successfully paid out.
• Failed/Rejected: Payout was unsuccessful and will be retried in the next cycle.

As soon as your blog has at least one active guest, ad revenue is no longer paid out instantly when an ad is approved — it's held and split at the end of the month instead, based on how often that specific ad was actually shown on each article. Here's the exact formula, worked through with real numbers:

1. An ad is approved for $100. Your 60% owner cut is $60 — this is the pool that gets split, not the full $100.
2. On the day that ad was approved, it was shown 1,000 times across your blog. A guest with a 50% revenue share had articles where that same ad was shown 400 of those times (40% of that ad's impressions that day).
3. That guest's amount for that day: $60 x 40% (their share of that ad's impressions) x 50% (their revenue-share percentage) = $12.
4. You keep the rest of that $60: $48.

This repeats for every day and every ad approved during the month, for every active guest — each one is attributed strictly by how much that specific ad was actually displayed on their own articles, using the percentage that was in effect on that day. Impressions on pages that aren't a specific article (your home page, category pages, sidebar) always count toward the day's total but are never attributed to a guest. A day where an ad had no tracked impressions at all leaves 100% with you for that event.

On the 15th of the following month, everything from the previous calendar month is locked and a payout is attempted for you and each guest via NowPayments (same as any other payout on the platform) — provided the amount is at least $1.00; if it's below that, it carries over to the next month automatically.