The hosting clock is how Knotflix handles gallery lifetime: every wedding includes 90 days of hosting, couples extend it whenever they want more time, and half of every extension is paid out to your studio. You stop footing the bill for every gallery forever — and a lapsed gallery locks rather than vanishes: we keep your master, and extending reopens the couple’s page.
If you’ve been delivering weddings for more than a couple of years, you already know the two options, because you’ve lived one of them.
Knotflix splits the difference in the only way that’s actually fair: the studio covers the delivery window, and the couples who want the long tail pay for the long tail.
| You host forever | Links just expire | The hosting clock | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who pays for year two | You | Nobody — it’s gone | The couple, if they want it |
| The film at year five | Online, on your dime | Dead link | Online if extended; locked, not wiped, if not |
| Revenue after delivery | None | None | Half of every extension, paid out via Stripe |
| The awkward conversation | Never — you just keep paying | The anniversary email | Never — the gallery handles it |
The reason most filmmakers eat hosting costs forever isn’t economics — it’s that nobody wants to send a couple a bill two years after the wedding. So the fee never gets charged, and the cost quietly becomes yours.
The hosting clock takes you out of that conversation entirely. The gallery is upfront about its included window, and extending is something the couple does for themselves, because they want their film’s home to stay open. The couples who care pay; the ones who’ve moved on cost you nothing. You never write the email.
We built Knotflix at Red Bank Studio and deliver our own weddings on it every week, which is exactly why the split is half — we sit on the studio side of this too. A couple extending their gallery should feel like revenue for the studio that made the film, not a platform skimming the moment.
If “lifetime hosting included” is a line item in your premium packages, a 90-day clock cuts against a promise you’ve already sold — price that in before you switch, or stop selling it.
And if you’d honestly rather pay one flat bill and never think about gallery lifetimes again, platforms that bundle open-ended hosting into the subscription exist and that trade is legitimate. Just be clear about what you’re buying: you are the one hosting every gallery, forever, including the ones nobody has opened since the thank-you cards went out.
The gallery locks: streaming pauses until the couple extends. They can extend whenever they want more time, and we keep your master the whole while — extending restores the couple’s access (on older galleries the streaming copy is rebuilt from that master, so playback can take a little time to come back). Your original master files stay downloadable to you regardless. A lapsed gallery is dormant, not destroyed.
Half. Every time a couple pays to extend their gallery, 50% is paid out to your studio via Stripe. The couples who love their film most become the ones funding its home — and delivery stops being a pure cost center.
No. Couples never create accounts on Knotflix — they get a private gallery link, and watching and extending both happen right there. Fewer steps between “I want this to stay up” and it staying up means more extensions actually happen.
For the delivery moment, yes — premiere, family shares, the rewatch wave all land well inside it. The anniversary viewing is exactly what extensions exist for, and because half of that comes back to you, the long tail works in your favor.
Knotflix is free for 30 days — card required, $0 today, cancel anytime before day 30.