Standard Broadcast

Standard Broadcast

Standard Broadcast launched as an investment and operating company serving digital video creators and podcasters. Its core project, Nebula, is a streaming platform built and owned in partnership with creators — a direct alternative to YouTube's ad-driven model. The firm provides its network with sponsorship sales, production resources, and group-purchased perks like Getty Images and Epidemic Sound access. Standard Broadcast operates across media, services, and venture investing. Its revenue model spans sponsorship commissions, platform subscriptions, merchandise design and fulfillment, and in-house production work through Nebula Studios. The firm has also deployed capital directly into startups aligned with creator needs, including a Series A investment in Karat, a charge card built for digital creators. The creator network includes Sam Denby of Wendover Productions, Devin Stone of LegalEagle, and Brian McManus of Real Engineering. The firm maintains offices in New York and Denver. Standard Broadcast is structured as a partnership, splitting Nebula profits 50/50 with creators based on watch time and committing half of any future sale price to creators. The firm is led by founder and CEO Dave Wiskus and executive officer Gemma Arnott. Recent activity: Standard Broadcast has continued to expand Nebula's owned-and-operated content capabilities under its Nebula Studios division, offering pass-through-rate access to editors, motion graphics artists, and sound engineers for network creators. Standard Broadcast's structural distinction is its fully inverted creator ownership model. Unlike a multi-channel network that takes a revenue share from talent, Standard makes its creators co-owners of the core revenue-generating asset. Nebula's profit-sharing and sale-proceeds structure means every major commercial outcome is aligned with the creators themselves, making it an asset manager that distributes carry to its LPs as a matter of design.