Together4Kidz is a creator-owned cooperative that brings together artists from around the world to produce, distribute, and monetize a catalog of shows, music videos, and songs for kids.

Creators pool their work into a collectively owned catalog in exchange for ongoing ownership participation. Revenues are collected centrally, splits are transparent and trackable, creators are paid in local currency, and 4% of gross revenue is donated to children in need worldwide.

Music and Animation Production

Together4Kidz will launch by producing fresh interpretations of beloved public-domain children's songs—classics parents actively seek and children consistently enjoy. Starting with proven, timeless material allows us to avoid licensing fees, reduce financial risk, and focus creative energy on high-quality storytelling and production.

Song Production

An initial core group of music producers, arrangers, and singers will create a catalog of 30+ professionally produced songs. Each song will be in both English and Latin American Spanish in at least three distinct musical styles, but with each style adhering to a common intro/verse/chorus order and tempo.

Video Production

Video artists will select a version of the song of their choice from the music catalog. Each version of a given song will be animated in a different style (e.g., 2D, claymation, CGI). Artists can also restyle their video for a song into different styles for use with other versions of the song.

Submitted videos must meet T4K quality standards and child-safety guidelines consistent with YouTube Kids policies. A selection panel will review content for inclusion in the cooperative catalog. Periodic contests and open calls will be used to attract new talent and encourage participation.

The guiding principle is simple: Make things you would be happy to have your own children watch.

Longer-term, Together4Kidz will expand into original songs, new lyrics set to classic melodies, fairy tales, series, and other kid-focused content while maintaining a foundation of familiarity and timeless appeal.

Maximizing Video Versions

By producing each song with a consistent arrangement and tempo, music and video can be "mixed and matched" into a wide variety of versions.

Animation ↓ / Music → M1 (Reggae) M2 (Folk) M3 (Celtic)
A1 (CGI) V1 V2 V3
A2 (Claymation) V4 V5 V6
A3 (Paper Cut) V7 V8 V9

3 Animation Styles × 3 Music Styles = 9 Basic Versions

Beyond these nine basic versions, additional versions are created through "section mixing," where different parts of the song—such as intro, verse, chorus, or bridge—are combined across styles. A new version might use Section 1 from A1/M1, Section 2 from A2/M2, and Section 3 from A3/M1. This approach can yield an additional ten to twenty unique videos per song, each with distinct visual energy and musical character.

This modular system turns every song into a mini-catalog of content, enabling broad experimentation, expanded audience reach, and long-tail revenue growth—all without increasing production cost.

Economic Structure of the Cooperative
Creators, Operations, and Revenue

Together4Kidz is a creator-owned cooperative in which all content is owned collectively through the catalog.

Creators do not sell their work; they contribute it to a shared system designed for long-term reuse and growth. Revenue is distributed transparently based on creative contribution, and creators retain ongoing participation in the income generated by the works they help create. Administrative and platform roles exist to support creators, not to replace or outweigh them. Administrators do not share in the ownership of the catalogue.

Early-stage operational costs are funded from platform revenue, with an explicit commitment to reduce those costs over time and increase creator distributions whenever possible.

Financing Content Production

Together4Kidz aims to finance the initial content production through external support, including crowdfunding (e.g., Kickstarter, Patreon, micropayments), brand sponsorships, grants, and philanthropic funding. These funds are tied to the creation of specific songs or videos and are used to provide creators with production advances against future revenue participation.

These advances provide baseline compensation for the time and resources required to produce content. Advances are recouped from the creator's future revenue participation, and do not eliminate or limit long-term participation once recoupment is complete.

As platform revenue materializes over time, it is reinvested into future productions, reducing reliance on external funding and increasing the number of works that can be supported through the cooperative.

This approach allows Together4Kidz to build a high-quality catalog before meaningful platform revenue exists, share early-stage risk, and align creators, supporters, and long-term growth.

Character Designs, Licensing and Merchandising

All creative works used in Together4Kidz productions—including characters, designs, music, and audiovisual assets—are contributed to and owned collectively through the Together4Kidz cooperative catalog enabling consistent reuse, quality control, and long-term value creation across the catalog.

Creators retain clear attribution, portfolio and self-promotional rights, and ongoing revenue participation tied to their specific contributions. Design is treated as a persistent creative role: when a character or set design is used in a Together4Kidz work, the originating designer continues to participate economically whenever that design appears.

All external licensing and merchandising (L&M)—including books, toys, and other derivative products—flows through Together4Kidz to ensure brand safety, scalability, and partner clarity. L&M revenue is shared in a creator-forward manner with the originating contributors, while supporting cooperative operations and mission-driven initiatives.

Character Reuse and Designer Rights

Character reuse within Together4Kidz is designed to support both creative continuity and fair, long-term compensation for designers. When a character or design is introduced into the cooperative catalog, the originating designer is recognized as a continuing creative contributor, not a one-time participant.

Designers retain a right of first refusal for new uses of their characters in future Together4Kidz productions. When a new project involving an existing design is proposed, the designer is given the opportunity to participate in or lead that production within a defined response window.

If a designer declines or is unavailable, Together4Kidz may assign the production to another artist. In such cases, the original designer continues to receive the character and/or production designer's share of revenue associated with that character's use, regardless of who executes the new work.

This approach ensures that character reuse is additive rather than competitive—allowing the catalog to grow while protecting designers from loss of income or creative displacement.

Brand Collaborations and Sponsored Content

Together4Kidz supports brand collaborations that align with child-friendly values while preserving the cooperative's ownership, creator protections, and long-term mission. Brands may collaborate with Together4Kidz either by supporting content production through the cooperative's creator network or by licensing music from the Together4Kidz catalog for brand-produced videos.

When brands collaborate with Together4Kidz, brand-owned characters, designs, and trademarks may appear under limited license but remain the property of the brand. Brand assets do not enter the Together4Kidz cooperative catalog and are excluded from internal reuse, remixing, section mixing, and participation in the collective pool.

Brand collaborations follow a mission-weighted revenue structure. Creators receive standard production advances for their work, while a reduced portion of video revenue is allocated to individual video artists. The remaining revenue attributable to brand value is redirected to the Together4Kidz collective pool and children's charity partners, ensuring that brand participation strengthens creators, future productions, and mission-aligned giving rather than private extraction.

Sponsored videos may be produced with or without visible brand elements, and where appropriate, brand identifiers can be made removable so that "clean" versions may be distributed on COPPA-compliant platforms such as YouTube Kids.

Revenue Streams:
Distribution, Discovery, and Audience Growth

T4K uses traditional streaming platforms as both revenue sources and primary discovery channels.

Video content is distributed on platforms such as YouTube and Kidoodle, while music is released on major services including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. These platforms generate long-tail revenue while also serving as the primary way families discover T4K content.

With focused marketing and clear calls to action, these platforms function as the top of the funnel—driving engaged viewers and listeners toward the T4K fan site, where deeper participation and direct support become possible.

Streaming Platform Logos

Revenue Streams:
Direct Fan Economics and Structural Advantage

One of the core beliefs of Together4Kidz is that the best way to achieve financial success in the creator economy is to convert discovery into direct, low-friction fan support.

T4K will employ its own direct creator-to-fan platform structured as a blockchain-based DAO. This enables transparent governance, programmable revenue participation, and automated coordination, with the potential to significantly reduce organizational overhead and lower the percentage of revenue allocated to central operations over time.

In parallel, My2Centz.com is being built to enable true micropayments—contributions as small as two cents—directly from fans to T4K. Existing payment systems make sub-dollar transactions effectively impossible, eliminating micropayments as a meaningful revenue category. Yet it is precisely these small, frequent contributions that have the potential to materially alter income dynamics for mid-tier creators when aggregated at scale. As an example, 10 million YouTube views can generate around $5,000 for kids content, while 1,000,000 micropayments of 10¢ would generate $100,000.

From an investor perspective, T4K is not only a content studio but a pilot program: a repeatable model that combines mainstream distribution for discovery with direct fan economics, reduced friction monetization, and a path toward more efficient revenue sharing as the system matures.

Creative Roles and Revenue Participation

For each song or music video, a fixed percentage of total revenue is allocated to the music and video creators. Within those allocations, Together4Kidz guarantees revenue participation to specific roles that create persistent, reusable value, while allowing production teams flexibility in structuring their internal compensation.

Music Productions

Singer(s) receive a guaranteed percentage of total revenue. Other music contributors, such as composers, arrangers, musicians, and producers, split the remaining revenue allocated to the music production.

Video Productions

The Designer (character, set, or world design) receives a guaranteed percentage of total revenue whenever their designs are used. Other video contributors, such as animators, directors, and editors, split the remaining revenue allocated to the video production.

Together4Kidz may provide suggested internal split guidelines as reference, but music and video production teams retain the right to negotiate their own internal distribution of their allocated share to be used within T4K.

Revenue Allocation Notes

Role % of Revenue
Video Streaming		 % of Revenue
Music Streaming
Shared Platform Operations & Distribution 46% 26%
Children's Charity 4% 4%
Collective Pool 10% 10%
Video Production (Total) 25% 15%
↳ Designer (5%) (3%)
↳ All Other Video Contributors (20%) (12%)
Music Production (Total) 15% 45%
↳ Singer(s) (3%) (9%)
↳ All Other Music Contributors (12%) (36%)

The Collective Pool = 10%

As the catalog and team grow, the system scales naturally, ensuring that everyone's role is valued. It encourages creators to keep participating over time, and because the formula is clear and transparent, everyone knows exactly how and why they're being compensated. 10% of all revenue from video and music platforms goes into a shared collective pool. This revenue is distributed based on each creator's total contribution to the catalog.

Formula:

Your Share = (Your Adjusted Units / Total Units) × (10% of Total Revenue)

Contribution Units:

  • Video (music + animation) = 1.0 unit
  • Song (audio only) = 0.5 units

Unit Division (Video Example):

  • Animator(s): 60% of that unit
  • Music Producer/Singer: 30%
  • Creative Director: 10%

If you were the animator of a video (1.0 unit), you'd be credited with 0.6 units toward the pool calculation.

Example Calculation:

  • You contributed to 3 videos as animator (60%) → 3 × 0.6 = 1.8 units
  • Catalog total = 100 units
  • Total revenue = $100,000
  • Your share = (1.8 ÷ 100) × $10,000 = $180

Operations, Content Mastering, and Channel Management

All operations, content mastering, and channel management duties are funded from the 46% allocated to Shared Platform Operations & Distribution. Channel management may be handled internally or by a third-party specialist depending on scale and platform needs. These functions exist to support creators and the cooperative catalog, and do not confer ownership or independent economic advantage.

Operations

  • Discovers, invites, and onboards new artists
  • Assigns songs and videos and manages production workflows
  • Oversees communication, coordination, and dispute resolution
  • Ensures smooth operations across creative, technical, and distribution teams

Content Mastering

  • Produces music videos and required variations for different platforms
  • Creates short-form cuts, teasers, and derivative assets
  • Maintains stylistic and brand consistency across all outputs

Channel Management

  • Handles uploads, titles, thumbnails, and metadata
  • Optimizes monetization and distribution across major platforms
  • Monitors analytics and manages rights protection and Content ID issues

Interested in learning more or joining the cooperative?

Contact Michael Mennies