We made Favor.org to solve the problem: "How can an artist earn money with content they share for free?"
Where can I explore Favor, users, contents and stuff?
Oh cool!
Dear Artist, here’s why you should use Favor
Favor is open and free as Internet itself
Favor is free and open for you and for your audience. It’s also open for all kind of media. It’s up to you how to use it.
There are no monthly, annual or traffic based fees or any stressful payments. Your posts are public to all and no one is forced to pay - unless they want to…
Favor enables you to earn with your talent
Favor isn't 100% free. Since you might earn money, it might be 120% free!
Earning system (Return the Favor) comes automatically with every post you create. You don’t need to think how much your art is worth: it’s for the viewers to decide. Every Return the Favor is a symbol of something great that inspires human emotions.
Return the Favor is the payment including the comment space. Every single viewer decides by themselves what to pay and what to say.
Minimum sum is $0,10.
The highest value is the most visible.
Also Return the Favors can be returned (as the comment chain).
Comment space can be filled with any media. It can be commercial as well. Actually, it’s the only place where ads exists at the Favor universum.
How much you’ll earn depends on the quality of your work. And it depends on how much your link is shared. So the more viewers you have, the more possible payers there is. If your content creates feelings, viewers have possibility to make the Return the Favor payment and say it out loud. And yeah, that means money. And yeah, money goes to you. And once more: oh yeah, you are able to withdraw it.
Read more on what Return the Favor is about
Too much reading? Sign up already! Or see what others have done!
It’s easy
Our basis is that creating favors should be as easy as creating an e-mail. It’s quite easy isn’t it?
To post you need to create an account, and for that we won’t ask but your e-mail address and your country. When you start gettin’ rich, we’ll ask some more details so we can direct your earnings legally to your payout account.
Read our Legal Documents , Certified Favor User Documentation and Favor Payment System description for more information.
Favor saves your money and nerves
Your Favor page is customizable enough so it can easily become your official home page. You’ll get the address of YourChoice.favor.org. You don’t need to publish your real name.
Also, you don’t have to worry about cleaning spam or junk messages. Money is the moderator. The fact that any comment requires at least $0.10 destroys any spammers campaign. And if it doesn’t stop them - well then it’s not spam but advertising.
If you feel like having the old fashion conversation with no boundaries, you are welcome to embed e.g. your Facebook page to your Favor account.
Even if you didn’t earn much, you have nothing to lose: The Favor platform is free to use. 10% of your earnings are forwarded to Favor Company Inc. but that’s all!
The more exclusively you use Favor, the better it serves you and saves your time (and money).
Our goal is that you’ll have content fancy enough to share and to be proud of. That’s not much to wish right?
Dear Visitor, here’s "Return the Favor"
Reward good work with Return the Favor
Favor is open to explore, enjoy and share without paying or signing in. But if you want to reward the artist and comment, there’s no button like:
Payment methods are provided by Suomen Verkkomaksut Oy (Finnish Web Payments)
- Choose a sum
- The amount is up to you. It can be 10 cents (that’s minimum) or 1203 dollars.
- Write a comment (optional)
- You’ll get the comment space to fill with any media (text, ads, song, photo...).
- Fill your Favor Wallet and you’re done!
- The money is paid from your Favor Wallet, which can be filled using PayPal, credit cards or the finnish web banks. Fill your Favor Wallet with any sum, and use the rest later.
Be seen as a real supporter
Return the Favor is really a valuable gesture , unlike “thumbs”, ”plusses” and such.
Return the Favor combines commenting, liking and rewarding with one unique gesture.
The comment with the highest sum is always on the top .
With a significant amount, you also challenge others to give more.
You pay - the content will stay! Favors that are worth something cannot be deleted, so you can come back after years and expect to see the content.
For your payment, you get to comment with a medium that surely reaches the author.
Remember that the money goes to the artist. Favor Company Inc. just takes 10% to make all this happen.
Return the Favors can also be returned (like comment chains), which means you might even earn with a good reply.
After 30 day qualifications, your earnings will be in your Favor Wallet for you to use on other artists (unless you’ve directed your earnings to your Payout Account, which will be real money)
Artist’s fans are your customers
You can use Return the Favor -comment to advertise your own website, put a link to somepage else or just attach your radio commercial there.
Some users get a lot of visitors, so supporting them is a great way to advertise to their audience.
‘Cause you can
Pay how much you want, when you want and to whom you want!
When e.g. pirating stuff (don’t!), you don’t have opportunity to say thanks. Now you and the artist are both participating the same party and you can buy her a drink.
Since $0.10 is next to nothing, the price shouldn’t be an issue. And a $10 comment gives the artist 100 times more royalties than one CD.
Also, paying $0,10 to the artist is a lot nicer than typing those captchas.
There is no such thing as free beer
The Internet has changed the world. Some older business models are outdated, but great art and respect for it never goes away. And the artists do need to pay their rent.
Photo by: marfis75
Join the new world and Return the Favor!
Sounds good? Here's where to start:
If you want to explore Favor and find content to reward, just go to All in Favor.
Check out the recent, the most valuable or active releases. Check out specific tags, or specific users.
When you find something worthwhile, click the big Return the Favor -button and follow the instructions. Try it - it only takes a minute and you only pay as much as you like. Try it on this page and you'll support our company :)
If you have any problems, contact us. We’re happy to help.
Remember that Favor is open for everyone, so please ask all artists and creators you know to use Favor to publish new and fine releases.
What is Favor?
Questions? Comments?
My friend said that she had an "Aha" -moment when she realized that Favor = Giving money to a great street artist.
Give as much as you like - if you like!
That's it! It's real money and yes it's goes to the artist.
Using real money instead of "likes" and "points" might be little daring, but in the end, that's the thing that really matters. Great art deserves a reward.
Thanks, favorcompany & Partajaska! I hope this helps you to create more.
Thanks and welcome!
Is it right to charge for comments?
...see what I did there? Advertising something that doesn't "belong" here. "They'll probably remove it", "you should stay on subject"...
...not in Favor!
Favor is about freedom!
Not free as in free beer - free as in free speech.
Yes this requires a payment - but the money goes to the artist, or the publisher. It goes to whoever created the favor (which is free btw.)
And while commenting in Favor has a price, it is a price you choose. With the minimum as low as $0.10, I think everybody can afford a return. And when creating cool content, every penny counts!
Thanks, favorcompany! I hope this helps you to create more.
Whoa, Diaspora has a really cool permalink-view for posts:
If everything is available for free, how can artists survive? www.favor.org
