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All questions about our affiliate program should be emailed to affiliates@filmon.com
1. Go to www.filmon.com and click the affiliate icon on the left side menu. Click on the "Create an account" button, complete the registration form, then click 'Register'. Your request has been submitted this way. 2. Once your affiliate account has been...
No, you can't broadcast HD streams on your service. You can purchase HD package only for your private usage, but can't rebroadcast HD streams or use it in any different ways .
There is no tool for affiliates to do this themselves, but it is possible for FilmOn Administrators to perform this function. We will require the affiliate to go through multiple steps to prove that they are the original owner of the affiliate program, bu...
At this time there is no turnkey solution that we have in place to create a connected TV application for an affiliate. The best that we can offer is an API key to provide the metadata and streaming video files for our content. The affiliate will then need...
No, we are not legally allowed to share users private information with anyone on the Internet. Affiliates are not allowed to sign users up for FilmOn Premium Pay Channels, but even if the affiliate partner signs a user up to buy DVR Space - the most we ca...
You cannot create an iOS application with the FilmOn Affiliate Program. Sorry for any inconvenience, but the Android Application is all that we support at this time. If you want to create an iOS application you will need to build the application yourself ...
Yes, affiliates can display the channel logos as they are displayed in the Web Affiliate white label offering, but any custom display of these logos in marketing materials need to be approved directly by FilmOn. Please email affilitates@filmon.com with a ...
1. Contracts with our advertisers are based on a CPM model (cost per thousand impressions) and the CPM varies depending on the territory and demand in that particular territory. 2. We will pay you 33% of the advertising revenue you generate via your app...
Step 1: Go to and fill out the form to be an affiliate. Wait for an email approval. As a Web Affiliate, we enable you to make the FilmOn live channels and On Demand co...
As an Android App Affiliate, we enable you to create a customized Android Application by selecting any and all existing FilmOn ad supported live channels or VOD content and make them available in a unique Android Application. STEP 1: GO TO
Send an email request to affiliates@filmon.com and explain how you plan to use the FilmOn API and what your plans for generating revenue are. We require all API Affiliates to integrate our ad SDKs to pull in video ads before playing FilmOn video assets. W...
You can manually grab the embed code for specific live channels and from the Channels Selection Tab.
Affiliates use the Channels Selection tab to indicate exactly which channels they want to display or hide on their Affiliate service. Whatever Channels are selected will be displayed on any affiliate service that is launched using this AFFID. We do not cu...
FilmOn's Ad Operations (AdOps) Team monetizes the video content for the affiliate. If a traffic affiliate, and therefore referring users to the FilmOn website to watch video content, then the AdOps Team monetizes the video on FilmOn.com. If a Web Affiliat...
1. Go to your hosting provider (DNS) and go to 'manage your domain zone' and then add CNAME Record 2. Add the your full domain and CNAME www.filmon.com. (the period at the end is important) 3. Then email with the subject line...
You are permitted to use the same AFFID for multiple websites, but they will all display the same selection of channels that were inputted in the Channel Selections tab. This is not an ideal setup, so we encourage you to create a unique Affiliate Account ...
There are many factors that can affect revenue for ad-supported services, but the primary two are CPM and Fill Rate. The first thing to look for is where your users are located, because the highest CPMs are generated in the US, Canada and Europe. If the m...
You are welcome to register as a Traffic Affiliate, but until you have a website we do not recommend submitting to become a Web Affiliate. If you want to create an Android Application, then we have the tools necessary for you to build the apk file.
There are four FilmOn affiliates: 1. Traffic Affiliate - Referring users to FilmOn 2. Web Affiliate - Manually embedding the FilmOn video player, or inserting a white label of FilmOn into a tab on your website or taking over the entire website. This i...
Most ad networks that FilmOn works with have finalized and billable numbers starting on the 15th of the following month. Starting then, the FilmOn AdOps Team logs into every advertiser dashboard and pulls their final numbers. All numbers will be in a reve...
You won't be able to bring advertisement of your own. You can only have FilmOn's adverts on your affiliated app/website.
Any newly activated affiliate is automatically put into an 'in review' status which means ads have not be targeted yet. If an active affiliate is not seeing ads being displayed, then the next most likely reason is that the country they are visiting from i...
Most affiliates are permitted to be a Traffic Affiliate and refer users to Filmon.com, but to be a Web Affiliate your website needs to confirm to some basic standards. The two primary reasons that a registration to be a Web Affiliate would be denied is if...
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