Stream, connect & earn with Beam.
The fair live streaming platform where creators keep 80%. Beam buys coins directly through beam.live — bypassing the App Store tax — so gifting turns into real income instead of platform profit.
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Earned today
$1,284.50
Beam Storm
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Built by a creator who beat Bigo at her own game.
Sierra Starling started on Bigo Live and became the platform's first organic host to hit 4 million monthly tiers — with no U.S. region. She built a 300-creator agency in under a year. Now she's building Beam: the fair live streaming platform she wished she had from day one.
4M
monthly tiers as Bigo's #1 organic host
300
creators in her agency, built in <1 year
0
U.S. region — she did it the hard way
Sierra Starling
Founder & CEO, Beam
The economics
The math speaks for itself.
80/20 revenue split. No App Store tax on gifts. That's the Beam difference.
A $100 gift puts
~$77 in your pocket
Coins bought directly on beam.live — no 15–30% App Store cut.
The same $100 gift leaves
~$52 after fees
Apple & Google take 15–30% before the platform even splits with you.
beam.live handles every coin purchase directly, bypassing Apple and Google's 15–30% commission. That reclaimed margin goes back to creators — not to an app store.
Why now?
The window is open. The creators are looking.
Three market shifts are converging at exactly the same time — and Beam is built to catch them.
Summer 2026
Trovo is shutting down
An entire creator base is about to lose its home — and is actively looking for the next platform to build on.
−11%
TikTok Live viewership fell in Q1 2026
The incumbent is cooling. Live audiences are open to a platform built around them, not the algorithm.
+15.7%
Live-streaming hit 475M downloads
The category is still growing fast. The demand is here — the fair platform to capture it isn't. Yet.
Head to head
What creators actually keep.
Every split below is public. Compare where the money really lands.
Take rates reflect each platform's publicly stated terms. Beam's ~77% net combines its 80/20 split with off-store coin purchasing.
Win one region properly — starting with MENA.
MENA is the world's fastest-growing live-streaming region, with the highest gifting spend per viewer on earth. Beam goes all-in here first — local payment rails, native-language events, and an Android-first build for where creators and their biggest supporters already are.
- Android-first, web-powered — 80%+ of our creators are already there
- Localized coin catalog and off-store payment rails
- Regional creator events built for high-value supporters
Live-streaming downloads
+15.7% YoYThe category climbed to 475M downloads — while incumbents cool. Beam enters MENA exactly as demand peaks and supply of fair platforms runs dry.
Be the first to stream on Beam.
Join the waitlist for early access and First-500 bonus pool eligibility.
Questions
Everything you want to know
Those platforms treat live as a side feature. Beam is built live-first: real-time social rooms, on-screen virtual gifting that feels like a moment, and creator payouts that don't disappear into a 70% platform cut. We focus on the interaction, not the algorithm.
Viewers send virtual gifts during your streams — from a small spark to a full-screen Beam Storm. Gifts convert to real earnings with transparent, creator-first splits. You keep more, get paid faster, and see exactly who's supporting you in real time.
Global platforms spread thin and reward no one well. Beam deliberately dominates one high-spend, underserved market first — deep localization, local payment rails, and community-tuned events — so both creators and gifters get a home that actually fits them.
No. Beam is designed for aspiring and established creators alike. Small, engaged rooms often out-earn massive passive audiences because gifting rewards genuine connection, not just view counts.
Creating an account and going live is free. Supporters can optionally subscribe to a supporter pass for perks and gifting credits. There are no hidden fees to start streaming.
We're rolling out region by region. Join the waitlist and tell us whether you're a creator, gifter or brand — you'll get your early-access invite the moment your region opens.