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Welcome to GigaStar Market!
Where YouTube Creators Gain Strategic Channel Investors
A Next Gen Crowdfunding Marketplace
Investment offerings are speculative, illiquid, and involve a high degree of risk, including the risk of loss of your entire investment.
Creators List
Get Funded & Grow Your Own Way!
Build an army of promoters. Collect future revenue through a capital raise (a drop) and share your channel's potential future revenue with Fans as Channel Revenue Tokens.
YouTube Creator Benefits
Innovate Fan Engagement
Turn Fans into Channel Revenue Token (CRT) holders eager to promote you.
Monetize Potential Future Cash Flow
Raise capital to grow your channel, invest in ideas, hire, upgrade equipment & more!
Enjoy Potential New Revenue
Each and every time your CRTs trade in the secondary market, you get a royalty.*
Create Your Own Exclusive Fan Club
Unlock next-level access for adoring Fans through your own token drop.
Build an Army of Channel Promoters
Fans become your partners who participate in your channel growth.
Keep all of Your Sponsorship Revenue
Share a portion of your YouTube revenue while keeping your sponsorship revenue.
* Royalty is defined as half of a 5% transaction fee the Issuer receives each time the Channel Revenue Tokens ("CRTs") are traded in the secondary market. A CRT is a digital representation of a security issued under Regulation Crowdfunding through GigaStar Portal LLC dba GigaStar Market. CRTs cannot be traded or transferred for 12 months following their issuance and there is no guarantee of a liquid secondary market. The GigaStar secondary market trading platform is anticipated to launch in 2024. Investment offerings are speculative, illiquid, and involve a high degree of risk, including the risk of loss of your entire investment.
FAQs
What is GigaStar Market?
GigaStar Market is a funding portal that brings Creators and Fans together as partners.
In more technical terms, GigaStar Market is an investment crowdfunding portal registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). GigaStar Market offers investments to everyone over 18 years of age under Title III Regulation Crowdfunding. GigaStar Market is not an investment advisor so we do not provide investment advice, make investment recommendations, endorse, or guarantee any offering on the funding portal in any way, shape, or form.
How does GigaStar deepen my connections with Fans?
Fans can invest to join your journey, support your YouTube channel growth, unlock exclusive benefits, and share in your YouTube channel’s potential future revenue. Transformed into your army of promoters, Fans receive potential monthly revenue and enjoy special perks (assigned by you) that innovate engagement and deepen relationships.
How does it work?
Through the GigaStar Market platform, Creators can offer the public a percentage of their YouTube channel's future revenue. During a drop, Fans can buy Channel Revenue Tokens (CRTs), which represent rights to a revenue share percentage. After the drop closes, the YouTube Creator receives the funds raised and GigaStar mints the CRTs for Fans.
Fans have the rights to receive monthly YouTube revenue (distributed through smart contracts), along with special perks assigned by the YouTube Creator, such as access to exclusive virtual events, and more.
After the anticipated 2024 launch of GigaStar's secondary market, whenever a Fan sells a CRT, the YouTube Creator will receive a royalty each time a CRT trades.
What about my sponsorship revenue?
You keep 100% of it! GigaStar doesn't touch it.
How do I get immediate funds?
After your drop successfully closes, funds raised are distributed to you, the issuer, to grow your channel and do what you love. Use the funds however you like: upgrade equipment, hire staff, travel to video shoot locations, launch products, run campaigns, and more!
How do I get potential long-term revenue?
Long-term revenue is generated for you whenever a Fan sells a CRT. After the anticipated 2024 launch of GigaStar's secondary market*, whenever a Fan sells a CRT, the YouTube Creator will receive a royalty each time a CRT trades.
What is a Channel Revenue Token (CRT)?
Channel Revenue Tokens (CRTs) represent rights to revenue share securities offered under Regulation Crowdfunding as determined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Each CRT digitally represents rights to a percentage of a YouTube channel's potential future revenue. CRTs also unlock additional Creator perks for the Fans who hold them.
How does GigaStar make it easy (and less work for me)?
GigaStar provides Creators with white-glove concierge onboarding for a streamlined experience, so we're with you at every step of the process!
How do I get a drop offering listed with GigaStar?
Apply for a drop below! We’ll be onboarding Creators throughout 2023.
What are the Creator Listing Requirements?
To be accepted for onboarding, Creators must meet GigaStar’s criteria, which include 5 key thresholds:
1. Channel Minimum Threshold
GigaStar performs a YouTube channel assessment for minimum threshold requirements, such as 12 months of revenue, $30K minimum annual YouTube revenue over the last 12 months (this does not include sponsorship revenue outside of YouTube), with a minimum of ~25K+ channel subscribers.
2. Creator Interview
GigaStar conducts a Creator interview to understand your unique growth goals.
3. Financials Verification
After a Creator completes their application, GigaStar uses an Application Programming Interface (API) to verify the Creator's channel financials directly from YouTube.
4. Bad Actor Check
A background check is required by Regulation Crowdfunding and focuses on items that disqualify a person from raising capital under Regulation Crowdfunding.
5. Integrity Check
Pursuant to Regulation CF Rule 301 for the funding portal, GigaStar Market is required to form a reasonable basis for believing that an issuer seeking to list an offering on the platform complies with certain regulatory requirements. Please refer to Reg CF Rule 301 for additional information.