Social media has evolved into a full-fledged economy—and content creators and influencers are at the center of it. Platforms can harness this opportunity to offer full-service payments systems that their creators will love, while diversifying their own revenue streams.
Episode Six is a modern, bank-grade issuer processor that can power seamless content creator payments through a variety of ways, from debit cards to virtual wallets and credit, in any currency. But that’s just the beginning. Episode Six can also enable social media platforms to launch their own customized closed-loop payments system that includes cards, digital wallets, account-to-account payments, and even rewards.
Let’s imagine a social media platform called Alpha, a growing global live-streaming app with a subscriber-based model. As their platform grows in influence and complexity, their payment infrastructure must evolve too. Alpha is currently making direct payments to their content creators, but they’re expanding quickly and need a more streamlined system to not only handle more volume in additional global regions but also offer new financial services and payment options.
With Episode Six, they can do all that and more.
Alpha’s creators are monetizing their live streams through viewer subscriptions and engagement. But there’s another lucrative opportunity ahead: leveraging Alpha’s relationship with its creators to offer financial services directly within the platform and capturing processing fees on an Alpha card.
Episode Six enables this shift by providing the modern ledger and card issuing technology needed to support global, real-time payouts—and much more.
With Episode Six, platforms like Alpha can move beyond basic payouts and build a complete embedded finance ecosystem:
This is all enabled through our cloud-native digital ledger and global issuer processing platform—built to scale with the speed of the internet economy.
As Alpha expands globally, Episode Six is ready to support every step. We connect platforms with regulated BIN sponsors in key markets and handle the complexity of compliance, card issuing, and global disbursements.
Our infrastructure allows for:
In short, we help social media platforms go global without slowing down and become small banks in their own right, for their content creators and subscribers.
Social platforms have the asset of knowing how much they’re paying creators. With Episode Six, they can capture more of the payments cycle—and turn what was once an expense into a new revenue stream.
By integrating branded cards and wallets, Alpha can:
This ultimately creates a closed-loop payment ecosystem—where user activity, spending, and rewards all stay within the platform.
Many social media platforms have never launched financial products before. No problem— that’s what we do.
Episode Six has vast experience working with digital-first businesses to:
We don’t just offer technology—we offer a partnership.
The content creator economy is booming, and the platforms that serve them have a prime opportunity to leverage this relationship. With Episode Six, platforms can empower creators, drive loyalty, and unlock new revenue—without rebuilding their stack.
Let us help you turn payments into a competitive advantage.
Episode Six is a global provider of enterprise-grade card issuing and ledger infrastructure for financial technology companies, banks, and brands. Episode Six delivers the innovative capabilities needed to compete with disruptors and lead the market. Flexibility, adaptability, and resilience are built into the core of Episode Six's platform, ensuring clients maintain a market-leading position. Episode Six operates in over 45 countries, powering 70+ enterprise customers globally, with an expanding team located in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and India. Investors include HSBC, Mastercard, SBI Investment Co Ltd, Anthos Capital, Avenir and Japan Airlines.