Create Local.
Earn Local.
Turn your personality, knowledge, creativity, or community connections into recurring local programming. Creators can be show hosts, contributors, correspondents, videographers, editors, or producers—and receive 60% of collected sponsorship revenue from their sponsored franchise.
This is a platform for local creators.
You do not need to be a traditional reporter, professional videographer, or social-media influencer. Creators can be show hosts, contributors, correspondents, videographers, editors, and producers. Different people can contribute different parts of a successful show.
On-Camera Host
Bring personality, curiosity, and local connections while the network helps provide show structure, branding, and distribution.
Correspondent
Cover schools, community events, personalities, sports, or specialized topics without having to operate an entire show.
Host + Producer
Take a larger role in planning, interviewing, shooting, editing, and assembling a recurring franchise.
Student Creator
Build real-world experience through video, photography, interviews, performance coverage, and digital storytelling.
Behind the Camera
Editing, photography, graphics, audio, camera work, and production are valuable parts of the network, too.
Local Expert
Turn knowledge about business, food, home services, finance, education, or community life into useful local programming.
Creators aren’t helping us build the network. Creators are the network.
So, how much could you actually earn?
Creators receive 60% of collected sponsorship revenue from their sponsored franchise. Shop in Seagoville retains 40% to support sponsor sales, billing, publishing, distribution, branding, and network operations. The examples below show what that structure could mean in real dollars.
Suppose a recurring show attracts a $1,500 monthly sponsor.
At 60% of collected sponsorship revenue, the creator portion would be $900 for that month. Shop in Seagoville would retain $600 to operate, sell, support, and grow the network.
Four episodes that month would equal approximately $225 per episode.
What different sponsorship levels could mean
These examples apply the Creator Network’s 60/40 model to collected sponsorship revenue. They are estimates, not guarantees of sponsorship, payment, program duration, or income.
$750
$1,500
$2,500
Strong creators may have opportunities to earn more.
Selected creator agreements may include additional incentives for performance, reliability, audience growth, or helping build a franchise sponsors want to continue supporting.
This is the difference between “getting exposure” and building something that may actually pay.
Shop in Seagoville wants local creators to build recognizable shows, grow their own local reputation, and receive the majority share when their programming attracts recurring sponsorship.
Earnings examples are illustrations only, not promises or guarantees of income. Actual sponsorship revenue, production requirements, payment amounts, and program duration will vary. Paid creator arrangements will be established in writing, and every example assumes that the applicable sponsorship revenue has been secured and collected.
What if creating the content became the fundraiser?
School organizations are constantly raising money. A sponsored recurring show creates another possibility: students produce valuable local programming, gain practical media experience, and the organization may share in the sponsorship revenue generated by the franchise.
A show attracting approximately $1,500–$2,500 per month in collected sponsorship revenue, with the organization receiving 60%, could potentially produce about $900–$1,500 per active month.
Across eight active school months, that would equal approximately $7,200–$12,000.
Instead of another fundraiser, the content itself can potentially become the fundraiser.
These are shows creators can help make their own.
Some opportunities will begin with established Shop in Seagoville franchises. Others may begin with an original idea brought to us by a creator.
Probably more people than you think.
You should not have to build everything from zero.
Shop in Seagoville Provides
You Bring
Don’t just join a show. Pitch one.
Maybe you know local food. Maybe you understand cars, finance, music, fashion, history, home improvement or youth culture. Maybe you are the parent who always knows what families are doing. Maybe you have an idea nobody has thought of yet.
Promising ideas can potentially become named, repeatable digital franchises with network branding, distribution, and sponsorship opportunities.
Become someone the community recognizes.
Successful hosts should not disappear behind the network logo. Shop in Seagoville wants to develop recognizable local personalities audiences choose to watch again.
Your Name on the Show
Selected programs can identify recurring hosts prominently on screen and throughout network promotion.
Your Work in Your Portfolio
Approved clips and published work can help demonstrate real-world media and production experience.
Room to Grow
Contributors can grow into correspondents, hosts, producers, and recognizable network personalities.
See what is coming—and how you can be part of it.
Discover the vision behind the new local digital network, explore sponsorship opportunities for local businesses, and preview the shows being developed for the December launch.
Your local show could start here.
Tell us what you would like to create, what you are good at, and whether you are interested in appearing on camera, producing behind the scenes, covering a particular topic, helping an organization raise money, or developing an entirely new show.
Creator opportunities, compensation, and production requirements vary by program, role, age, and organizational status. Creator-share terms and other paid arrangements are established in writing. Earnings examples elsewhere on this page are illustrative only and are not guarantees. Participation is not guaranteed by submission of an interest form.
