Published platform rates, published earnings data, and the federal enforcement record.
The App Store's 30 percent rate is real, published, and applies to fewer transactions than the headline suggests.
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Nobody argues about the rates. They are printed. The argument is always about the figure somebody put in an advertisement.
The coloured part is what the platform keeps. Spotify is absent because it publishes no per-stream rate to keep — the figure everyone quotes is an average calculated afterwards.
When a survey says the average creator earns $29,000 a year, the interesting question is what the median earns — and why nobody leads with that.
A mean and a median describe the same population and disagree about the typical year.
Photo: RDNE Stock project / PexelsThe FTC pursued Blessings in No Time under pyramid and Business Opportunity Rule authority. The complaint's facts and the court's final order are the record.
The order that closed the case bars its operators from multi-level marketing for good.
Photo: Ann H / PexelsThe FTC's Business Opportunity Rule requires sellers to hand over a specific disclosure form — and then wait — before a prospective buyer can be charged a cent.
Seven calendar days, and a document, before a buyer signs anything or pays.
Photo: Héctor Berganza / PexelsOne mark, and a subject made of five or six numbers: what the platforms publish, what the surveys found, and what the Commission asked a court to order. All twenty-eight pieces.
The fee schedules, revenue shares and payout thresholds that platforms have published in their own terms — attributed and dated.
Published surveys, Federal Reserve and BLS data, and platform-disclosed creator statistics — the figures behind the advertised numbers.
Named FTC actions, the Business Opportunity Rule, and what each filing asked for — described by the regulator's own documents.
The course-and-coaching business, MLM income disclosure statements as published documents, affiliate networks, and the FTC's own guidance on endorsements.
Regulators, researchers, and watchdogs in the same disclosure business.
Kiss Me Fuck Me turns slow introductions into exactly what the title promises.
NFBusty delivers figures that, unlike platform payout rates, nobody disputes.
Lubed knows the smoothest runs leave zero friction behind.
Brother Crush proves some urges survive every disclaimer you read.
My Family Pies proves even audited households hide undisclosed revenue streams.
