Hop-on Introduces Digitalage Live Pass, Targeting First Paid Premium Broadcasts in August 2026
Rhea-AI Summary
Hop-on (OTCID: HPNN) announced that subsidiary Digitalage is preparing to launch Digitalage Live Pass, a premium pay-per-event broadcasting model enabling creators, journalists, broadcasters, and rights holders to sell access to individual live events directly to audiences. The company is targeting its first paid Live Pass transactions in August 2026, marking a shift from infrastructure build-out and testing toward commercial operations.
According to Hop-on, Live Pass is the first direct transaction model in the broader Digitalage ecosystem, which already includes live streaming, video-on-demand, creator control tools, AI transcription, and content verification. Digitalage intends an initial $9.99 price per event and to allocate 85% of defined net proceeds to participating creators, retaining 15% after taxes, app-store commissions, payment-processing fees, refunds, and other mandatory third-party costs. The platform has progressed through multiple 2026 milestones, including live infrastructure deployment on March 10, creator onboarding from April 14, launch of Digitalage.com on May 19, a U.S. patent application filing on May 26, commercial intake from June 1, expanded VOD and live intake on June 9, and Apple App Store approval for the iOS app on June 30.
Positive
- First paid Live Pass transactions targeted August 2026, moving toward commercial operations
- Creators intended to receive 85% of defined net proceeds from Live Pass events
- Initial Live Pass event price set at $9.99, subject to platform requirements
- Apple App Store approval for Digitalage iOS app received June 30, 2026
- Live streaming infrastructure deployed March 10, 2026, with public multi-host demo on March 16
- U.S. patent application filed May 26, 2026 for conditional digital licensing
Negative
- Creator share based on net, not gross, after multiple third-party transaction costs
- First paid transactions are only targeted for August 2026, not yet operating
- Initial $9.99 pricing and terms remain subject to app-store, tax, and refund requirements
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Digitalage advances toward commercial operation with direct creator-to-audience transactions and an intended
The Company is targeting its first paid platform transactions during August 2026, advancing Digitalage from infrastructure development, product testing, creator onboarding, and Apple App Store approval toward commercial operation.
Live Pass is the first direct transaction model within a broader Digitalage media ecosystem designed to support live broadcasting, video-on-demand, creator-led newsrooms, live news coverage, AI-assisted media tools, verification, content protection, audience interaction, and continued monetization of completed broadcasts.
A BUILD CONDUCTED IN PUBLIC
Digitalage is not a concept waiting to be built. It is a media system that has been deployed, demonstrated, and expanded through publicly announced milestones.
Digitalage deployed its live streaming infrastructure on March 10, 2026. On March 16, the Company publicly demonstrated live broadcasting, multi-host collaboration, persistent replay, a creator control center, and AI transcription operating together.
Creator onboarding began April 14 with a selected cohort of up to 100 creators. Digitalage.com launched as the Company's public operating platform on May 19. On May 26,
Commercial intake opened June 1. On June 9, Digitalage opened VOD library ingestion and live broadcasting intake across news, sports, events, and faith and family programming. On June 30, the Digitalage iOS application received Apple App Store approval.
Live Pass is the next step in that progression: converting Digitalage's infrastructure, creator participation, programming, and audience engagement into paid transactions.
DIRECT CREATOR-TO-AUDIENCE ECONOMICS
Digitalage Live Pass is designed to let creators and rights holders sell access to individual premium broadcasts without requiring viewers to make an open-ended monthly commitment.
The Company is preparing an initial price of
Digitalage intends to allocate
Live Pass is separate from the previously announced Genesis Creator Pilot Program, which established creator economics for qualifying subscription and advertising revenue.
MORE THAN LIVESTREAMING
Digitalage is being developed as media infrastructure for creators, journalists, broadcasters, and rights holders. Its stateful media architecture is designed to preserve completed live broadcasts as searchable and verifiable media assets while maintaining creator and ownership attribution.
Live becomes archive. Archive becomes an asset.
Completed broadcasts are designed to remain available for replay, distribution, monetization, and rights-based licensing. Digitalage's infrastructure includes live broadcasting, video-on-demand, multi-host participation, interactive chat, persistent replay, AI transcription, live captions, creator controls, moderation capabilities, content protection, and media verification.
"Most platforms control which creators get seen, which stories receive attention, and how much revenue reaches the people who produced them," said Peter Michaels, Sr., Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hop-on, Inc.
"Digitalage was built on a different principle. The audience a creator or journalist earns belongs with them, not with an algorithm deciding whether that relationship matters today. Live Pass turns that principle into a transaction, with the creator intended to receive
Michaels continued, "Live Pass is not the entire Digitalage vision. It is the first direct commercial transaction model operating across the infrastructure we have built. In August, we intend to move from explaining that model to processing the first paid transactions."
About Hop-on and Digitalage
Hop-on, Inc. (OTCID: HPNN) is a U.S.-based technology company focused on digital media infrastructure and intellectual property. Through Digitalage, Inc., Hop-on provides creators, journalists, broadcasters, and rights holders with tools designed to ingest, protect, verify, distribute, and monetize digital media.
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