SurfLingo turns a subtitled video into an interactive language lesson. If you produce or distribute programmes — documentaries, interviews, series, talks — we list them in the app and share the revenue they generate with you.
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What we bring
Your programmes stop being a one-off viewing: every word of the subtitles becomes clickable, graded by CEFR level, and joins the learner’s vocabulary. A 2019 documentary becomes usable again.
Our users pick a title for its language level and its subject, not for its release date. Back catalogue is an asset here, where it is a blind spot elsewhere.
Monthly per-title reporting: views, minutes watched, words learned. You know which of your programmes work, and for which learner profiles.
The terms
The model is a revenue share: a share of subscription revenue goes to rights holders, split by actual consumption of their titles. Rate and basis are set in the contract, after a test phase.
You stay free to distribute your programmes anywhere else. Any title can be pulled from the catalogue on request, within 30 days.
You keep every right you hold. We resell nothing, use your content only within the agreed scope, and derive no training dataset from it.
How it works
The form below. Type of programmes, rights held, territories, available languages.
Thirty minutes to check that catalogue and usage meet, and to clear the rights questions.
We integrate them and measure real usage. That test is what the commercial terms are built on.
Licence agreement, catalogue goes live, monthly reporting and payouts on the same cycle.
Partnership request
A well-filled request saves three rounds of emails. We answer every request, including the ones where the answer is no.
Rather write to us directly? support@surflingo.app
FAQ
Yes, under the licence agreement, and only for playback inside the app. Files are stored on our European servers, never redistributed, never downloadable by the end user.
Ideally yes: an original-language subtitle file is enough to make a title usable straight away. Otherwise we look case by case at producing the subtitles on our side, at our expense.
Common video formats (MP4, MKV, MOV…) and .srt subtitles. On languages, the six pairs already covered by our dictionaries — English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian — come first; others depend on volume.
It is being built. SurfLingo Player currently reads the user’s own files; the partner catalogue is the next brick, and we are opening discussions now so it launches with a first set of titles. Partners in this first wave shape its scope and its terms.
On that title, yes: we only list programmes for which the partner holds distribution rights in the relevant territories. Nothing stops you from starting with the part of the catalogue that is rights-clear.
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