FOR VIEWERS
Free. Fully.
- Episode 1 is free, every time.
- No account.
- No signup.
- No credit card.
- No paywall — ever.
- Ads inside the video come from the partner that owns the show. We don't run ads on our pages.
ABOUT · CH. 04No accounts. No upsells.
No accounts. No upsells.
No bait.
We make money when you find your next show. That's it. This page exists so we don't have to be cute about it.
The model, in three columns
FOR PARTNERS
100% of the ad take.
- You keep 100% of the in-video ad revenue.
- You provide the embed. You control the player.
- We send intent-driven traffic to where the rest of the season streams.
- Every outbound click is logged and reportable.
- Standard rev-share applies on the referral side.
FOR US
Pure referral economy.
- Our only revenue line is referral fees from partners.
- No display ads.
- No subscriptions.
- No premium tier.
- No data sales — we don't have data to sell.
Why we built this
Streaming has 50+ platforms and roughly 10× more "where to watch" aggregators. None of them let you actually watch the show before deciding to invest a subscription, a credit card, or a weekend.
Pilot episodes used to be free — over the air, in syndication, on cable previews. They aren't anymore. The whole "try before you buy" loop got broken.
FirstBiteTV brings the pilot back. Watch Episode 1, free, in the partner's own player. If it lands, one click sends you home to wherever the rest of the season streams. If it doesn't, you didn't sign up for anything, so there's nothing to cancel.
That's the entire product. The rest is bookkeeping.
What we track, what we don't
We do log
- Outbound clicks — which show, which partner, when. Required to bill referrals.
- Aggregate page views — via Vercel Web Analytics, the most privacy-preserving tool at our scale: cookieless, no cross-site identifiers, no fingerprinting, aggregate counts only. Captures path, referrer, country (IP discarded after regional derivation), and coarse device class. Full detail in § 06 of our Privacy Policy.
- Affiliate attribution — a single Impact.com tag on the home page lets the partner network whose CTA you click credit the referral back to us. The captured data is shared with that specific partner only; full detail and opt-out paths live in § 05 of our Privacy Policy.
We don't
- Run display, banner, or interstitial ads on our pages.
- Run behavioral retargeting or remarketing across other sites.
- Embed consumer-tracking pixels — no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no TikTok, no LinkedIn. (See the “We do log” column for the two narrowly-scoped tools we DO use: Vercel Web Analytics and Impact.com.)
- Sell or rent your personal information.
- Require accounts — so we have no profile data to begin with.
FOR OPERATORS · CH. 05
Got a show? Pilots welcome.
Networks, studios, and streaming platforms: put Episode 1 in front of viewers actively shopping for a new show. You keep 100% of in-video ad revenue. Full terms, onboarding, and FAQ live on the partners page.
FAQ
How do you make money?
Referral fees from partners when viewers click through to keep watching. That is the entire revenue line.
Do you charge users anything, ever?
No. There is no paid tier. There is no plan to add one.
Why only Episode 1?
Because the pilot is enough to know if a show is for you, and because that's what partners are willing to give away for free.
Do you regional-license content?
Not yet. The embeds may carry their own regional restrictions from the source platform.
Where can I see your data practices?
Section § 03 above is the whole list. We collect outbound click events and aggregate page views, nothing else.
How do I get in touch?
One inbox for everything — viewers, partners, rights issues: johnkrochman@krochmanholdingsinc.com.
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
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