Ownership Points & Patronage

Subvert is a cooperative, which means the people who use and contribute to the platform are also its owners. The way we recognize and quantify the engagement of each co-op member is through a system called patronage.

What patronage is

In a cooperative, patronage measures a member's contribution to the collective. At Subvert, patronage covers a range of activity: making and releasing music, buying music, contributing to the platform's catalog and ecosystem, listening, participating in governance, and the work of running the co-op itself.

Patronage activity is organized into five categories: Economic Activity, Content Activity, Engagement Activity, Governance Activity, and Special Designations. Cooperative management defines and updates the specific actions that count within each category. The Ownership Assembly, a rotating body of twelve members selected each quarter by sortition, determines how each category is weighted relative to the others.

The full system, including the Ownership Assembly's process, is governed by our Patronage Activity & Ownership Points Policy.

Ownership Points

Ownership Points are how patronage is recorded. Members earn Ownership Points based on their patronage activity during each quarterly evaluation period. Points accumulate over the lifetime of a member's involvement with the cooperative and are never reset.

You will be able to see your Ownership Points and your patronage activity in your member dashboard on the platform.

→ The Ownership Assembly → Patronage Activity & Ownership Points Policy