Watching

Streams, VODs and clips all play the same way and are paid for the same way: with an ad, or from your wallet.

Ad-supported

You watch free and one short ad before playback covers the bandwidth. This is what runs when you are signed out or your wallet is empty. Capped at 1080p.

Available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany, where ad revenue covers the bandwidth it pays for. Elsewhere, watching uses your wallet. The list grows as ad revenue does.

Wallet-funded

Your wallet is debited per gigabyte served, at the rate on Money. Cost tracks the bitrate you actually receive: roughly $0.05 an hour at 720p, $0.10 at 1080p, $0.30 at 4K. No ads, no resolution cap, every debit itemised.

Chat

Every broadcast has its own chat, live while it runs and replayed in sync when you watch the VOD. Messages hold 500 bytes, counted identically whatever alphabet you write in. Send too fast and you get Rate limited. Slow down.

Creators and their mods can set slow mode, a minimum delay between one person’s messages, or subscriber-only mode. The composer says which is on, and a refused message says which stopped it. They can also time you out or ban you, both per channel with no effect anywhere else.

To report a message, hover or tap it, choose Report and say what is wrong with it. The channel’s moderators read it first and pass anything breaking the Terms of Service to Kuldron.

VODs

A VOD is a saved broadcast, on the creator’s channel once the stream ends. Whether one is kept comes from the creator’s Save past broadcasts setting as read at the moment the broadcast starts, so turning it off later leaves existing VODs alone. Creators can also set an age limit, after which saved VODs delete themselves.

Otherwise a VOD stays up until the creator deletes it or it is removed under the Terms of Service or the DMCA Policy. Storing them draws on the creator’s wallet.

Clips

A clip is a short segment cut from a live stream or a VOD, usually seconds to a few minutes. Any signed-in viewer can make one without involving the creator, from any broadcast the creator is saving. Every clip gets a public URL that plays for anyone you send it to and can be embedded.

A clip points at its source video rather than copying it, so deleting a VOD deletes every clip cut from it and the confirmation says how many. The creator, the clipper or Kuldron can remove one, and a DMCA notice can target one directly. Clipping runs on the licence in Terms of Service §3 and moves no rights: they stay with the original creator.

Two kinds run and both pay for the platform. One video ad before ad-supported playback, and Google AdSense display ads on public pages: this reference, the blog, forums, profiles and watch pages. Your account pages, Studio and embedded players carry none. The count stays at what the platform needs to run, and funding your wallet removes the video ads entirely.