Partners

Get paid to grow Wave.

Two ways to earn. Share Wave with your network and collect 30% of every paid subscriber’s revenue for a year. Or, if you’ve got an audience, apply to the Creator Program for CPM deals, view-based bonuses, and a free Pro account while you’re active.

Path 1 — open to everyone

The Wave Partner Program

Anyone with a Wave account gets a referral link. When someone you refer becomes a paid subscriber, you earn 30% of their revenue for 12 months — including renewals during that window. Refer one person or refer a thousand. There is no cap.

Commission30% of revenue
Duration12 months per customer
Cookie window90 days
Payout countries100+
Payout methodsACH, PayPal, card, stablecoin
CapNone

The math, plainly

A Wave Pro subscriber at $25/month earns you $7.50/month for 12 months — about $90 per converted referral. Ten Pro users in a year is $900. A hundred is $9,000. The ceiling is your reach.

Start in 60 seconds

  1. Open Wave on your phone, or sign in at app.wave.co/account/partner
  2. Settings → Earn → Partner Program
  3. Copy your link (it looks like invite.wave.co/yourname) and share it

Track clicks, signups, paid conversions, and earnings from the dashboard inside the app. Payouts run through Dub Partners in 100+ countries via ACH, PayPal, card, or stablecoin. The full launch announcement — read it here.

Path 2 — invite-only

The Wave Creator Program

For creators with audiences that overlap with Wave’s users — students, founders, sales reps, consultants, productivity nerds, journalists, podcasters. Sponsored placements with guaranteed CPM rates, performance bonuses for views, milestone bonuses for converted subscribers, a free Wave Pro account while you’re active, and amplification across Wave’s own channels.

Base payGuaranteed CPM
View bonusesTiered milestones
Conversion bonusesPer paid subscriber
Wave ProFree, while active
AmplificationWave channels reshare
Stack with referralsYes, 12-month tail

How a deal works

  • Guaranteed CPM. A flat rate per thousand views on the placement, paid up front or on delivery — your call.
  • View bonuses. Tiered top-ups when the placement clears view thresholds (e.g., bonuses at 100k, 250k, 500k, 1M+).
  • Conversion bonuses. A bounty per paid Wave subscriber attributed to your placement, on top of CPM.
  • Recurring referral tail. The Partner Program 30% / 12-month payout stacks on top, so the placement keeps paying long after the post is cold.
  • Free Wave Pro. Active creators get Pro on the house — show the product you actually use.
  • Amplification. Standout placements get reshared from Wave’s X, LinkedIn, YouTube, WaveTube, WavePod, and email lists.

Platforms we work with

YouTube, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, X, LinkedIn, podcasts, and newsletters. Long-form integrations, mid-rolls, dedicated videos, podcast reads, and newsletter sponsorships are all on the table. We’re especially interested in creators who can show the product in use, not just read a script.

Who fits

  • Productivity, AI, tech, and software creators
  • Founders, operators, and solopreneurs with engaged business audiences
  • Sales, consulting, and coaching creators
  • Students and study creators (lectures, exam prep, research)
  • Journalists, interviewers, podcasters, and audio creators
  • Career and professional development creators

Audience-fit beats follower count. A 30k-subscriber YouTuber whose viewers are sales reps will outperform a 2M-follower lifestyle account every time, and we’ll pay accordingly.

Apply

Email partners@wave.co with:

  • Links to your channels (YouTube, TikTok, IG, X, LinkedIn, podcast, newsletter — whatever’s primary)
  • Audience size and typical engagement (avg views, listens, opens)
  • Who your audience is in one sentence
  • The placement you have in mind (long-form integration, dedicated video, podcast read, newsletter, etc.)
  • Your rate card if you have one — otherwise we’ll quote

We respond to every application, usually within a week.

What good Wave content looks like

Lead with the pain, not the feature

“I forget half of what gets said in meetings” lands harder than “95% transcription accuracy.” Show the problem, then let Wave solve it on screen.

Show the actual output

A real summary of a real call beats a screenshot of a settings screen. Use Wave in the video and read the summary it produced.

Be honest about fit

Wave is great if you’re in a lot of conversations. It’s not for everyone. Recommending it to the wrong audience burns trust faster than any commission can pay back.

Use it in public

The most effective creator pitch is being someone who clearly already lives in the product. Tag @waveappai when you do.

Rules of the road

A few things that get partners and creators removed from the program:

Frequently asked

What's the difference between the Partner Program and the Creator Program?+

The Partner Program is open to anyone with a Wave account — you share a referral link and earn 30% of every paid subscriber's revenue for 12 months. The Creator Program is invite-only and built for people with audiences. Creators get paid CPM rates for sponsored placements (videos, posts, newsletters), view-based performance bonuses, milestone bonuses for converted subscribers, a free Wave Pro account, and amplification across Wave's owned channels.

How much does the Partner Program pay?+

30% of every referred subscriber's payments for 12 months from their first paid transaction. A Wave Pro subscriber at $25/month earns you $7.50/month for a year — about $90 per converted referral. No caps, 90-day cookie window, paid out via Dub Partners (ACH, PayPal, card, or stablecoin) in 100+ countries.

How much do Creators earn?+

Creator deals are negotiated per-campaign based on audience, platform, and format. Most deals combine a guaranteed CPM rate with performance bonuses tied to view thresholds and milestone bonuses tied to converted Wave subscribers. We publish nothing here on purpose — every deal is built around what your audience is actually worth.

Who qualifies for the Creator Program?+

Creators on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, podcasts, or newsletters with an audience that overlaps with Wave's users — students, founders, sales reps, consultants, productivity people, journalists, podcasters. We care less about raw follower counts than engagement quality and audience-fit. If you're not sure, apply anyway.

Can I do both?+

Yes. Creators get a Partner Program link too, so you keep earning recurring revenue on the audience you convert long after a sponsored video drops.

What can I say about Wave?+

Tell the truth. Show the product. Wave is an AI note taker that records and transcribes meetings, phone calls, and in-person conversations and produces summaries you can search and share. We do not train AI models on user data, we are SOC 2 Type 1 compliant, and we are not HIPAA compliant — do not pitch Wave for protected health information. See the security page for the full story.

How do I apply?+

Email partners@wave.co with links to your channels, your audience size, your typical engagement, and what kind of placement you have in mind. Include a sentence on why your audience would care about Wave. We respond to every application.

Are there rules I need to follow?+

Yes. No spam (cold DMs, mass email blasts, posting links in unrelated communities). No paid search on Wave brand terms. No self-referrals. No impersonation of Wave or its support team. Disclose sponsored content per FTC and platform rules. Violations end the partnership and forfeit unpaid commissions.

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