Developers don't need Facebook to build apps, and it doesn't get a 30percentt cut of payments.
This includes handling (and taking a cut of) payments, as well as offering add-on financial services such as landlord insurance.
Now the question is how Messenger can make money via ads, not taking a cut of payments, without interrupting the experience.
And eventually, Instant Games could earn Facebook ad dollars from developers promoting their games, or a cut of payments, though there are no in-game purchases allowed yet.
While those platforms are all focused on video streamers, they still pose a threat to Patreon, which needs to maximize the number of successful creators it hosts in order to earn enough from its tiny cut of payments.
Facebook doesn't take a cut of payments through Messenger, but the feature could still help earn the company money at a time when it's seeking revenue streams beyond News Feed ads as it runs out of space there, Stories take over as the top media form and user growth plateaus.
If G4S manages to put him into a job that endures for two years, they will get the maximum payment from the government of about £14,000 (much higher than the equivalent £4,000 payment for a regular jobseeker); Pertemps will receive a cut of that payment.
Venmo doesn't get in the middle of the transactions, and so it does not take a cut of each payment like PayPal does.
And most certainly what Bah didn't disclose was that he kept a cut of the payment and forwarded the rest of the money on to his co-conspirators in Costa Rica.
And the creators own all the intellectual property, so if there's interest, a show might actually make the transition to traditional TV (and Mobcaster gets a small cut of the payment).
