What changed in 2025 and 2026

Every dated change the registry recorded, newest first, with its verification label in brackets, then the undated snapshot notes by category. The monitor section lists numbers that moved on an official page since the previous check.

Monitor: numbers that changed on official pages

None yet. The latest monitor run (report-2026-09-05.md) is the baseline; diffs appear after the next run.

Dated changes, by the latest date in each note (future dates are announced effective dates)

2027-06-25 · 19 · Vesuvius Challenge has a $2,140,000 open prize pool including a $1,000,000 2027 Grand Prize (deadline 2027-06-25) and $590,000 a year in monthly progress prizes. (Official.)
2027-02-01 · 08 · YouTube raises the ad-revenue entry bar on 2027-02-01 to 8,000 qualified watch hours in 365 days or 20M qualified Shorts views in 90 days for new applicants, and Shorts ad and subscription revenue will require 10M Shorts views in 90 days; Premium Lite goes global with 60% of its net subscription revenue distributed to creators. (Official.)
2026-11-03 · 14 · NLnet's next deadline is 2026-11-03; first grants run EUR 5,000 to 50,000. (Official.)
2026-10-01 · 01 · Apple's EU terms change on 2026-10-01: 26% standard (was 30%), 20% with alternative payment, 15% link-out, and a flat 5% Core Technology Commission for apps distributed outside the App Store. The per-install Core Technology Fee, initial acquisition fee and store services fee are eliminated. (Official: Apple Newsroom, Aug 2026.)
2026-10-01 · 02 · Atlassian: Forge apps that qualify as "Runs on Atlassian" keep 100% of earnings up to $1M lifetime Forge revenue from 2026-01-01; standard Forge rate 15% to 16% (2026-04-01) to 17% (2026-10-01); Connect apps 15% to 20% (2026-04-01) to 25% (2026-10-01). (Official.)
2026-09-25 · 08 · X retired Creator Revenue Sharing on 2026-09-07 and replaced it with Original Content Rewards (applications from 2026-09-08, first payment 2026-09-25). (Official help page via search.)
2026-09-05 · 06 · The construction platforms publish no partner economics: Procore leaves app pricing and billing to the publisher, Trimble lists partner integrations on the Trimble Marketplace through App Xchange with terms via sales, Bentley sells developers iTwin Platform plans from $199 a month, and Vectorworks tiers partners by co-marketing capacity. (Official pages, added 2026-09-05.)
2026-08-31 · 04 · Civitai replaced its flat 25% generation compensation with creator-set licensing fees; the old system retires 2026-08-31 (secondary). Tensor.art restructured incentives on 2026-07-22.
2026-07-08 · 03 · Coda became Superhuman Docs; new applications to sell Packs are paused since 2026-07-08 while a new developer monetization model is designed. Existing Pack makers keep 70/30. (Official help center via search.)
2026-07-01 · 03 · Envato Market (ThemeForest, CodeCanyon and the rest) moved every author to a flat 50% from 2026-07-01 and ended exclusivity; long-time exclusive authors previously kept up to 87.5%. (Official Author Hub post via search.)
2026-07-01 · 03 · TemplateMonster ended exclusive products on 2026-01-01 and moved to a single fixed 20% commission rate from 2026-07-01. (Official helpdesk page.)
2026-07-01 · 08 · Rumble updated its Creator Program requirements on 2026-07-01. (Official.)
2026-07-01 · 11 · Envato Market moved all authors to a flat 50% from 2026-07-01 (see 03).
2026-06-30 · 01 · Google Play splits its fee into service fee + 5% billing fee in the US, EEA and UK from 2026-06-30: 10% on the first $1M, and 10% on all auto-renewing subscriptions. Rest of world stays 15% first $1M / 30% above. (Official.)
2026-06-08 · 07 · Roblox introduced a US 18+ DevEx rate of $0.0054 per Robux on 2026-06-08 for spend from age-verified adult US players (standard rate $0.0038 since 2025-09-05). (Official Developer Forum announcements via search.)
2026-06-01 · 03 · GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based billing on 2026-06-01; Copilot Extensions still have no published developer monetization. (Secondary.)
2026-06-01 · 07 · Rec Room shut down on 2026-06-01; creator token earnings stopped 2026-05-18 and a final payout ran 2026-06-01.
2026-05-28 · 07 · Meta's Horizon Worlds temporary Activity Bonus stopped accepting enrollments after 2026-05-28; a metrics-driven bonus program replaces it. (Official docs via search.)
2026-05-26 · 10 · Audible's new ACX royalty model pays 50% on exclusive and 30% on non-exclusive titles, up from 40% and 25%, calculated on "Member Value" (the listener's membership price net of taxes and fees, plus credits, split across the titles they engaged with); enrollment opened to all ACX creators on 2026-05-26 and the legacy model is discontinued at the end of 2026. (Official ACX blog.)
2026-05-11 · 12 · Udemy cut its subscription revenue share to 15% from January 2026, after 25% in 2023, 20% in 2024 and 17.5% in 2025, while marketplace sales still pay 37% and instructor-referred sales 97%; Udemy and Coursera closed an all-stock merger on 2026-05-11 with instructor terms unchanged at closing. (Official Udemy teach blog via search; secondary for the merger.)
2026-05-07 · 08 · Snapchat's Monetization Program now requires 100 hours of Spotlight view time in 28 days for maximum rewards from 2026-05-07. (Official.)
2026-05-03 · 06 · Autodesk's Design and Make Marketplace Publisher Agreement (last updated 2026-05-03) still sets the commission at 0.0%; the publisher is Seller of Record through the payment processor. (Official agreement text extracted.)
2026-04-13 · 05 · LINE opened in-app purchases in LINE MINI Apps to all verified developers on 2026-04-13 (Japan only) and added Yahoo! JAPAN Ads for MINI Apps in July 2025. (Secondary and official respectively.)
2026-03-15 · 01 · Apple's China storefront moved to 25% standard / 12% reduced on 2026-03-15. (Official: Apple Developer News.)
2026-02-16 · 01 · Setapp Mobile, the EU iOS alternative marketplace, closed 2026-02-16. (Secondary: TechCrunch, Feb 2026.)
2025-10-16 · 05 · Snapchat added Lens+ Payouts on 2025-10-16 alongside Top Performer Payouts; nearly $1M went to 1,000+ creators in June 2026. (Secondary.)
2025-08-20 · 01 · Amazon Appstore for Android shut down 2025-08-20; it continues on Fire TV and Fire tablets. (Official.)
2025-05-15 · 01 · Samsung Galaxy Store moved to 80/20 (85/15 for subscriptions) on 2025-05-15. (Official.)
2025-05-15 · 02 · Intuit: App Partner Program with metered API tiers from 2025-05-15 (Builder free, Silver $300/mo, Gold $1,700/mo). (Secondary.)
2025-04-21 · 02 · Google Cloud Marketplace: variable revenue share, 3% down to 1.5%, from 2025-04-21. (Official docs via search.)
2025-01-01 · 02 · Shopify: 100% of the first $1M gross app revenue earned since 2025-01-01, 85% above. (Official.)
2024-09-01 · 02 · monday.com: built-in monetization mandatory for new marketplace apps since July 2024; 0% until $200K lifetime, then 85/15 (program effective 2024-09-01). (Official.)
2024-05-01 · 08 · Twitch's Plus Program pays 60/40 at 100 Plus Points and 70/30 at 300, with the $100K cap removed and Affiliates eligible since 2024-05-01. (Official blog via search.)
2023-06-13 · 04 · Google Assistant Conversational Actions were sunset 2023-06-13; Alexa skills remain the only voice-assistant storefront with payouts (see 03).

Undated snapshot notes by category

01. App stores: mobile, desktop, VR, TV, wearables and browser extensions

Epic Games Store takes 0% on the first $1M net revenue per product per year, then 12%, since June 2025. (Official.)
Microsoft Store dropped developer registration fees to $0 via the new storedeveloper.microsoft.com flow. (Official.)
Garmin Connect IQ Store now sells paid apps through Garmin Pay (launched 2024). (Secondary.)

02. Business SaaS platform marketplaces (commerce, CRM, productivity, ERP, cloud)

ServiceNow: Build Partner Program relaunched January 2026 with a single annual membership fee and four tiers. (Official press release.)
Notion Marketplace fee is 8% + $0.40 per transaction (official help page); some 2026 guides still say 10%.

03. Developer tools, low-code, data and API marketplaces

Replit Bounties now redirects to a Contra partnership page (replit.com/bounties 301s to contra.com/replit).
Nokia acquired Rapid (RapidAPI) technology assets in November 2024; the public API hub's 2026 seller terms could not be located. (Official Nokia newsroom via search.)

04. AI model, agent, prompt and AI-creator marketplaces

Enterprise agent stores went live everywhere at once: Salesforce AgentExchange (15% checkout share), Google Cloud Agent Marketplace and Gemini Enterprise Agent Gallery (A2A Agent Card listing, outcome-based pricing allowed), AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools (July 2025, remote MCP servers added Oct 2025), Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store (monetized via transactable SaaS offers), Oracle Fusion AI Agent Marketplace (Oct 2025), ServiceNow Store (Jan 2026).
OpenAI's Apps SDK (Oct 2025) supports external checkout for physical goods and a beta embedded checkout via the Agentic Commerce Protocol; no revenue share published. The GPT Store builder payout program never left its US pilot.
Poe pays creators per message and up to $20 per referred subscriber; over $100K paid by mid-2026 (secondary).
ElevenLabs voice creators passed $22M cumulative payouts (official blog via search).
Anthropic's Claude plugin marketplaces and Connectors Directory have no billing layer; distribution only.

05. Messaging, chat and social-platform apps, stickers and AR effects

Telegram's developer terms now state a reward of 0.013 USD per Star, 0.02 USD per Star as ad credit, a hold of up to 21 days and a 3-year expiry on Stars. (Official ToS.)
WhatsApp added paid Channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status from June 2025, rolling out over months. (Official Meta Newsroom.) The widely quoted 10% platform cut is not on Meta's pages: unverified.
Reddit's Developer Funds run in half-year terms; H2 2026 pays $1,000 per app at 250 Qualified Installs and $500 at 500 Daily Qualified Engagers in a week, up to three apps. (Official terms via search.)
TikTok Effect Creator Rewards lowered the qualifying bar to 5,000 unique video publishes in 30 days for most categories (100,000 for makeup and green screen), capped at $14,000 per effect and $50,000 per creator per month. (Official FAQ.)
Discord requires apps with paid capabilities to also sell them through Discord's Premium Apps checkout at a price no higher than elsewhere; Growth Tier fee 15% until a team's first $1M, then 30%. (Official support article via search.)

06. Design, CAD, AEC and creative-software marketplaces

Figma is not approving new sellers of paid Community files; existing sellers pay a flat 15%. (Official.)
Webflow raised template creator commission to 95% (see 02). Framer pays 100% on template sales. (Official.)
Superhive (formerly Blender Market) pays a default 70% creator commission, rising to as much as 90% with a paid creator subscription. (Official docs via search.)
Canva stopped accepting new Element Creators in 2025; template creators still earn from a monthly royalty pool. (Official help center via search.)
Graphisoft's Registered API Developer Agreement prices the optional developer licence at EUR 500 and developer support at EUR 500 a year, requires every add-on to be furnished to Graphisoft for examination before it is marketed, and names no store and no royalty; developers sell Archicad add-ons through their own channels. (Official agreement text.)

07. Games: platforms, engines, user-generated content economies and mods

Fortnite creators can sell items directly inside islands since December 2025, on top of the engagement pool that distributes 40% of Fortnite's net revenue; payouts passed $1B cumulative (secondary, Unreal Fest 2026).
Nexus Mods was distributing about $300,000 a month in Donation Points as of November 2025. (Official.)
Overwolf reported $300M paid to in-game creators in 2025 (secondary, Forbes).

08. Video and live-streaming creator programs

Facebook Content Monetization replaced In-Stream Ads, Ads on Reels and Performance Bonus with one performance-based program; still invite-only per 2026 guides. (Official announcement; 2026 requirements secondary.)

09. Writing, self-publishing, newsletters and serialized fiction

Medium added a one-time bonus (Feb 2026) when a non-member hits your paywall and joins to read your story. (Official help center via search.)
Draft2Digital now lists a $20 one-time activation fee and a $12 annual maintenance fee for accounts earning under $100 a year. (Official FAQ.)
beehiiv reports $19M of paid-subscription revenue flowing through the platform in 2025, up 138%. (Secondary.)
KDP paperback royalties are 60% at list prices of $9.99 and above and 50% below, minus printing. (Official.)

10. Audio: music distribution, licensing, podcasts and audiobooks

Spotify's Partner Program for podcasters pays a 50% share of Spotify-monetized ad revenue plus Premium video engagement revenue in 19 markets; entry needs 3 episodes, 2,000 consumption hours and 1,000 audience in the last 30 days. (Official.)
Spotify tracks must reach 1,000 streams in the prior 12 months to earn royalties (policy effective April 2024), and functional noise recordings must be at least two minutes. (Official.)
Epidemic Sound is not accepting new artist applications "right now"; existing terms are a 50/50 streaming royalty split plus upfront payment per track and a share of a $4.2M annual Soundtrack Bonus. (Official.)

11. Stock media and creative asset marketplaces (photo, video, audio, fonts, icons, 3D, print files)

Shutterstock pays contributors on six earnings levels each for images and for video, from 15% to 40%, and resets every contributor to level 1 on January 1. Adobe Stock holds a fixed 33% on non-video and 35% on video for everyone. (Official Shutterstock help page, fetched; Adobe via search.)
TurboSquid's SquidGuild pays exclusive sellers 50% rising to 60% at $10,000 lifetime sales plus a 20% affiliate commission on referred sales. (Official.)
The Iconfinder "sell" page now redirects to freepik.com/icons; Iconfinder's marketplace has been folded into Freepik. (Observed redirect.)
Noun Project is "currently only accepting icons from select creators" with a waitlist. (Official.)
Vecteezy runs two tracks: a Pro program with a 50% subscriber-share split and a Free program paying $5 per 1,000 downloads for vectors and photos, $10 per 1,000 for videos. (Official.)

12. Courses, education platforms, tutoring and mentoring

Course-platform pricing has converged on "pay a subscription, keep 100%" above the entry tier: Teachable Builder $89, Thinkific Start $109, Podia Shaker $84 and Kajabi Basic $179 all charge 0% platform fees, while entry tiers charge 5% to 7.5%. (Official pricing pages.)
Cambly is "currently limiting new tutor acceptance"; pay stays at $0.17 per minute ($0.20 for Cambly Kids). (Official.)
Preply's commission still starts at 33% and falls to 18% with hours taught; trial lessons carry 100%. (Official.)

13. Memberships, paid communities, fan funding and crowdfunding

Skool now has a $9 Hobby tier (10% transaction fee) beside the $99 Pro tier (2.9%). (Official.)
Passes advertises a flat 10% take with instant payouts; Fanfix reports $250M paid to creators. (Official pages.)
Patreon's pricing page states a 10% platform fee plus processing, conversion and payout fees; the older 5% and 8% legacy tiers are not shown on the page. (Official.)
Liberapay still takes 0%, funded by donations to its own account; processor fees average 3% (Stripe) and 5% (PayPal). (Official.)

14. Open-source funding: sponsorships, grants, bounties and pledges

Tidelift's maintainer page now redirects to SonarSource's security solutions page; the maintainer income program's current status is unverified. (Observed redirect.)
Open Collective replaced its percentage platform fee with optional Platform Tips or a 5% crowdfunding fee, and charges hosting organizations $0, $60 or $320 per month tiers. (Official.)
Open Source Pledge members have contributed $7.27M, over $3M in the past year, at a minimum of $2,000 per employed developer per year. (Official.)
FLOSS/fund distributes $1M a year; its May 2025 tranche paid $325K to 9 projects. (Official.)

15. Affiliate, referral and creator-commerce programs

Notion's affiliate program "is currently not accepting new affiliates" (existing affiliates continue via PartnerStack). (Official.)
ShareASale's site now redirects to an Awin "getting started" page; ShareASale has been folded into Awin. (Observed redirect.)
HubSpot pays 30% recurring for up to one year with a 180-day cookie and a $10 payout minimum. (Official.)
Kinsta pays up to $500 per referral plus 10% recurring for the customer's lifetime. (Official.)

16. Advertising networks: web display, developer-audience ads, app mediation, newsletter and native

Google AdSense's published display revenue share is 80% "after the advertiser platform takes its fee", which works out to about 68% of advertiser spend when the buyer is Google Ads. (Official.)
Ezoic's managed tiers now start at 250,000 monthly users, with an Incubator Program admitting roughly 10-20 smaller publishers a month. (Official.)
EthicalAds publishes a rate of about $2.50 per 1,000 pageviews for EU and North American traffic with a 50,000 pageview minimum and a $50 payout floor. (Official.)

17. Freelance marketplaces, vetted talent networks and expert networks

Contra stays commission-free for freelancers; free members pay a flat $15 or $29 per client payment above $500 and a capped 5% on digital products, both waived on Pro ($29 per month or $199 per year). (Official.)
Guru's job fee scales from 9% (Free and Basic+) down to 5% (Executive) by membership tier. (Official.)
Intro takes 30% on marketplace-sourced sessions and 10% on sessions the expert brings themselves. (Official.)
Replit Bounties redirects to Contra (see 03).

18. Bug bounties, vulnerability reward programs and security research marketplaces

Code4rena announced it "is winding down" and "closing its doors" after five years; contests were still listed into May 2026. (Official homepage.)
Apple Security Bounty tops out at $2,000,000 for zero-click network attacks reaching the kernel, with 50% (beta), 100% (Lockdown Mode bypass) and 150% (both) bonuses, and doubles rewards donated to anti-spyware charities. (Official.)
Microsoft's headline maximum is $250,000 (endpoint and on-prem), $100,000 for cloud programs and Zero Day Quest. (Official.)
Meta's top bounty is $300,000 for mobile RCE and $130,000 for WhatsApp Private Processing; Hacker Plus adds up to 30%. (Official.)
Cantina now redirects from cantina.xyz to cantina.security. (Observed.)

19. Competitions, challenge prizes, hackathons and paid open-source programs

ARC Prize 2026 runs with $2,000,000 in prizes across three tracks in partnership with Kaggle. (Official.)
The AI Mathematical Olympiad's third progress prize opened in November 2025 within a $10M fund. (Official.)
XPRIZE's open purses: Water Scarcity $119M, Healthspan $101M, Wildfire $11M (finals), Quantum Applications $5M. (Official.)

20. AI training work, data licensing, voice and likeness, and content licensing to AI

Expert data-labeling pay is now advertised openly: DataAnnotation lists $75 to $125+ per hour for expert roles (coding up to $150+), Alignerr an $80 per hour average, Mercor a $113 per hour average contracted rate with "$4M+" paid daily, Outlier "$500M+" paid cumulatively. (Official pages.)
Toloka's worker site now redirects to Mindrift, its expert-work brand. (Observed redirect.)
Web-scale AI licensing rails matured: Cloudflare Pay Per Crawl (private beta, flat per-request price set by the publisher), TollBit (usage-based bot and agent paywall), the Really Simple Licensing 1.0 standard with the RSL Collective, and ProRata's 50% revenue share with 1,000+ content partners. (Official pages.)
Calliope Networks' domain no longer resolves, and Created by Humans timed out; treat both as needing a fresh check.

21. Microtasks, user testing and paid research participation

Respondent pays participants "$50 to $400+" per study with no participant fees, via Tremendous, typically within 48 hours. (Official.)
Userlytics pays $10 to $50 per approved test every 15 days. (Official.)
UserTesting pays only via PayPal, usually 14 days after a test; amounts vary per test. (Official.)
Clickworker pays weekly by PayPal, Payoneer, SEPA or ACH. (Official.)

22. Print on demand and physical products from digital designs

Printful's Growth plan ($24.99 per month, up to 33% off products) becomes free once a store passes $12,000 in annual sales; the base plan has no upfront costs. (Official.)
Printify Premium is "From $39/month" monthly or $24.99 per month billed yearly, with up to 20% off all products; Printify earns its margin on the fulfillment price rather than charging platform fees. (Official.)
Amazon Merch on Demand replaced its flat royalty with three tiers in June 2026 keyed to how much of your traffic comes from outside Amazon: a $19.99 shirt pays $2.44 at the default Creator tier, $4.88 at Plus (15%+ external traffic) and $5.27 at Premium (35%+). (Secondary: Merch Titans, June 2026.)
Redbubble's account tiers now carry platform fees on monthly earnings: Pro 0%, Premium 20%, Standard 50%, capped at $150 per payment period, plus a 50% fee on earnings from markups above 20% for Standard and Premium. (Official help center via search.)

23. Selling digital assets: domains, websites, apps, newsletters and small businesses

Atom (formerly Squadhelp) publishes a full commission ladder: 7.5% Standard, 15% Plus, and 15% to 30% on Premium by sale price, with AtomPay at 1.35% to 4.5% for your own leads. (Official.)
Empire Flippers charges a flat $10,000 up to $66,666.66, then a stacked 15%, 8% (above $700K) and 2.5% (above $5M). (Official.)
Duuce, the newsletter marketplace, now redirects to lettertrader.com; Tiny Acquisitions' domain no longer resolves. (Observed.)

24. Payments, merchant-of-record services, checkout and subscription infrastructure

Stripe now sells Managed Payments, a merchant-of-record layer at 3.5% on top of standard processing, covering indirect tax in 75+ countries, fraud, disputes, invoicing and support. (Official.)
Gumroad charges 10% + $0.50 on direct sales and 30% on sales that come through Gumroad Discover. (Official.)
New merchant-of-record entrants undercut Paddle's 5% + 50 cents: Creem 3.9% + $0.40 with no international surcharge, Dodo 4% + 40 cents (+1.5% international, +0.5% subscriptions), Polar 3.4% to 5% by plan (see 14). (Official pages.)
Sellfy removed transaction fees entirely, charging plans of $22 to $119 per month with annual sales caps. (Official.)

25. Web3 and crypto-native creator monetization

Sound.xyz, the music NFT platform, "is now offline as of January 16, 2026"; artists claim remaining funds through Splits. (Official.)
Foundation's site now carries a shutdown letter about preserving assets and media. (Official.)
x402, the HTTP 402 payments standard, is run by an x402 Foundation launched under the Linux Foundation, with zero protocol fees, EVM and Solana support and stablecoins as the primary use case. (Official.)
Brave Creators reports more than 1,622,490 creators and publishers receiving BAT contributions. (Official.)

26. Agentic commerce and machine-to-machine payments (emerging)

OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) is documented as "in production": merchants implement the Agentic Checkout Spec, PSPs the Delegated Payment Spec, and onboarding starts with a structured product feed. (Official.)
Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) is at v0.2, extends A2A, integrates with the Universal Commerce Protocol and is being standardized through FIDO Alliance working groups. (Official.)
Shopify exposes a Global Catalog across every Shopify merchant and a Universal Cart API (early access) for agents, with documented support for Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, Cursor and VS Code. (Official.)
Stripe ships an agent plugin, MCP server, agent skills, a Stripe Directory for agent discovery, "Sell through agents", "Accept payments from agents" and LLM token billing. (Official.)
Visa Intelligent Commerce is "in the process of development and deployment" with a free sandbox and an MCP server; the x402 Foundation launched under the Linux Foundation with zero protocol fees. (Official.)

27. Grants, accelerators, credits and platform funds

Y Combinator's standard deal is $500,000 for 7%: $125,000 for a fixed 7% plus $375,000 on an uncapped MFN SAFE, with no fees. (Official.)
AWS Activate offers up to $200,000 in credits, redeemable on third-party models in Amazon Bedrock; Microsoft for Startups up to $150,000 in Azure credits. (Official.)
Vercel's Open Source Program gives $3,600 in platform credits over three years; its summer cohort was open "until September 13". (Official.)
GitHub Accelerator's most recent documented cohort (2024) paid $40,000 non-dilutive per project over a 10-week program focused on AI and ML. (Official.)
Cloudflare's Workers Launchpad page returned 404; Epic MegaGrants blocked fetching. Check both before relying on them.