INTERNAL MEMO — RE: WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE IS WORTH
Flat rates leave money on the desk.
slotsbid runs your sponsor slot like an auction house runs a lot. The brands already in your inbox bid against each other — past your standard ask — you stamp every ad APPROVED before money moves, and you collect every cent your audience is worth.
YouTube video, podcast episode, newsletter issue, stream — if a sponsor would pay to be there, you can auction it. Free to set up, free for your first two sold slots, and we never take a cut of what you sell.
Old filing: flat rate — $500
why 500? nobody remembers.
- DevTool Co.$500
- LaunchKit$520
- Acme Cloud$585
- DevTool Co.$640
SOLD
specimen entries — clearly marked in every demo
Standard operating procedure
Three forms between your guess and your price.
FORM 01
We open your file
A hosted auction page with your name on the folder — or one script tag on your own site. Whatever you make, whatever you publish on: nothing to install, nothing about your setup changes.
FORM 02
Sponsors bid on the record
Forward your sponsor emails to the page. Every bidder signs in under a real name and files their ad for your approval before they can bid — in the open, or as a sealed offer.
FORM 03
You stamp it, we settle
The gavel falls, the winner you already approved pays at the counter, and the slot runs, and pays you directly. You keep every dollar of it.
Filed under: appearances
Your page never shows “0 bids.”
An empty auction would look worse than your rate card — so that state doesn’t exist here. Quiet weeks sit in sealed-offer mode: the page reads “accepting offers · 3 received,” amounts stay in the envelope, and the public ledger only opens once there’s real competition worth showing. Slow weeks look exclusive, never empty.
Terms of business
You keep 100%. We charge a subscription.
slotsbid takes no cut of your sales. The sponsor pays you directly — your bank, your PayPal, your payment link — and that money never passes through us at all. What you pay for is the software that ran the auction, and your first two sold slots are free.
Specimen settlement — lot no. 001
- Winning bid
- $640
- slotsbid fee
- $0
- Paid to you
- $640
We issue the invoice and record the sale. We never hold the payment.
The full terms, in detail — every plan, and how you get paid.
FREE
Your first two slots
The whole product — auctions, sealed offers, approvals, the embed — for your first two sold slots. No card. A slot that goes unsold doesn’t use one up.
PRO · $29/MO
Unlimited slots
Everything in Free without the cap, plus invoicing, category price benchmarks, your own domain, and no slotsbid badge on your page.
EITHER WAY
0% of your sales
No commission, no listing fee, no charge for a slot that doesn’t sell. Your sponsor pays you, not us.
Posted by management
Office policy. No exceptions.
Notice to all parties
- No fake bids, ever. Demo ledgers mark every specimen entry. Live ledgers carry only binding offers from named sponsors the creator approved by hand.
- Bidders sign the register first. A verified account, a real name on the ladder, and your approval before the first bid. No burner names.
- Nothing runs without your stamp. Sponsors file their creative with their first bid; you approve it before any money moves.
- The sealed envelope is always open. Sponsors who won’t bid in public can always make a private offer.
The arithmetic
A flat price can’t find your ceiling. A bidding war can.
Niche audiences clear $60–150 CPM in 2026. At rate-card prices, a 10,000-strong audience goes for $200–600 a placement — a number most creators copied from someone else’s file. When two sponsors want the same video, episode or issue, the gap between your guess and your ceiling is money that never reaches your ledger.
Start here
Sell your first two slots free. Then pay us $29 a month.
That is the whole deal. We take 0% of every sale — the sponsor pays you directly, and the winning bid is yours to the cent. What you pay for is the auction that found the price. Two sold slots to prove it works, then a flat subscription that costs less than one placement.
No password — sign in with an emailed link. Want it set up for you? support@slotsbid.com