A not-for-profit music platform. Free for every user, forever. Every dollar of every ticket is accounted for. Every cost is shown. Every system change is gated by a board, not an admin.
No paywalls. No "premium." No tier above another. The platform behaves the same for a 14-year-old discovering their first show and a touring artist on their fifth album.
A real $45 ticket sale, itemized. The artist made the music. The venue holds the room. The promoter brought the crowd. They split 45/45/10. We take nothing.
Artist (45%): they made the music. Venue (45%): they hold the room and run the door. Promoter (10%): they brought the audience via their recommendation. When no promoter is attached, the split rebalances 50/50 to artist and venue.
Card processing is paid to Stripe. Sales tax is paid to your state. Neither dollar comes to iHYPE. Most platforms blur these into a "service fee" that hides their own cut. We itemize them so you can verify.
If a show is cancelled, every recipient is debited proportionally — including the platform-fee zero. No one keeps a cut they shouldn't.
The 10% only applies when the buyer arrived via a promoter's page or recommendation. The system tracks which surface drove the click. The 10% never goes to iHYPE — it goes to whoever made the show.
Live music ticketing is a $35-billion industry built on stacked fees. Side-by-side, on a $45 ticket.
Hype the scene. Not the next rich guy.
Audio ads play during music playback — never around your reading, never on your profile, never on a ticketing page. Every ad comes from the music economy: artists promoting releases, venues promoting shows, promoters promoting events, and music-adjacent businesses.
Easier to commit to a list than to a vague principle. If iHYPE ever does any of these, you should leave.
The platform fee line is $0 forever. Not "introductory." Not "during high demand." Zero.
No iHYPE Pro. No Premium. No paywalled charts, analytics, or HYPE multiplier.
Your listening, location, friends, purchases — never packaged, never sold, never shared with brokers.
Charts rank on active HYPE only. No label can buy a top spot.
No sports betting. No crypto. No mortgage refinance. Music-related businesses only.
Sponsored placements appear at position 4 or later. The top three are always earned.
No banner ads. No interstitials. Audio ads only, in the player only.
Tip jars, merch, supporter funds — 100% goes to the artist after card and tax.
Not-for-profit is just a tax status. What keeps a platform honest is who's on the board and what they publish.
Everything the platform measures is published — aggregated, anonymized, refreshed continuously. No private dashboards for management. No "internal-only" metrics. If iHYPE knows it, you know it.
Updated every minute. Anyone with a browser can see this.
More music played → more ads heard → more discovery → more tickets → more shows → more music. Every dollar stays inside the music economy.
501(c)(3). All financials public. These are the operating numbers from our most recent reporting period.