Orbit Creators Night

The night a channel
becomes real.

One room, one artist, one live purchase everyone watches land. It's how a channel stops being an idea — and it's yours to host. Here is the red line every Night follows, the rules that keep it honest, and what your room needs before the doors open.

  • ≈ 3 hdoors to open end
  • 1 hfixed program
  • 40–120people
  • 1live purchase
  • 1ask

The spine is fixed. The night is yours.

Every Creators Night, in every city, walks the same red line — the same blocks, the same order, the same single ask at the end. That's the quiet magic of it: a Night in Nairobi and a Night in Zagreb are recognisably the same night. Not a brand rolled out — a format that works, handed on.

Everything around that line is yours — the venue, the language, the lineup, the way your city sounds. Orbit brings the rails, the keynote, and this blueprint. The night belongs to the operator.

Why channels exist — read the manifesto

Two formats. One path.

You don't start with a stage. You start with a table.

The standing meetup

Creators Coffee

5–25 peoplemonthlyno ask

The same café, the same day, every month. A table, a few creators, one phone with Orbit on it. No stage, no program, no ask — just the place where the local circle forms: the artists, the audience, and usually the person who ends up running the channel.

  • A table and a host who cares
  • One phone with Orbit on it
  • Nothing else

Anyone can host a Coffee. You don't need a channel yet — this is how you get one.

The flagship

Creators Night

40–120 peoplewhen the channel is readyone ask

One hour of fixed program inside a three-hour night: the operator opens, Orbit explains the rails, an artist plays, the room buys their work live, and the operator makes the only ask. A Night needs a stage, a screen, and a room that trusts the person holding the microphone.

  • A local channel operator, presenting in person
  • An artist from the channel's catalogue, in the room
  • A live purchase the whole room can watch land

No operator yet? Then it's not a Night yet. Keep hosting Coffees — that's not the fallback, that's the path.

  1. Coffee
  2. Circle
  3. Operator
  4. Channel
  5. First Night

The red line

One hour carries the whole night. Times count from doors — move the clock to fit your city, never the order.

  1. 0:00~50 min
    The room

    Doors

    Arrival, drinks, music from the channel's catalogue. No program, no announcements — the room gets warm before anyone holds a microphone.

  2. 0:5010 min
    The operator

    The operator opens

    The first voice of the night is local — the channel operator, never Orbit.

    • Who they are — their work, and why this room already knows them
    • Why they started the channel: their own turnover story, the exploitation, told from here — this market, this scene
    • What a channel is: theirs, concretely — never the abstraction
    • Bringing back ownership
  3. 1:0020 min
    Orbit

    The Orbit keynote

    The founder's side of the story the operator just told. It pairs — it doesn't repeat.

    • Welcome, and thanks for coming
    • Why Orbit exists: distribution, the bad turnover, an industry controlled and exploited from elsewhere
    • Why blockchain — the driver for decentralisation, never the product
    • Every purchase and stream pays the creator instantly — no middleman, no waiting for reports
    • Shares split automatically between partners the second money lands
    • The full infrastructure: mobile, TV, browser
    • Decentralisation isn't solved technically — it's solved by the people operating distribution and creation
  4. 1:2010 min
    The artist

    Spotlight

    An artist from the channel's catalogue plays. Whenever possible, the artist whose release the demo will buy — the payment should land on someone the room has just heard, standing close enough to thank.

  5. 1:3015 min
    Everyone

    The money moves

    Participatory, not presented. This is the night's centre of gravity — phones out.

    • Accounts created live, with the room — helpers in the crowd, nothing explained from the stage
    • One real purchase, from the artist who just played
    • The artist says out loud what arrived — the amount, and that it landed the second the room paid
    • Only now does the night name what everyone just saw: channels are the platforms — Orbit is the rails
  6. 1:455 min
    The operator

    The operator closes

    One ask, in the operator's voice: contact me to join the channel. It's the only thing the whole night asks — the room already joined Orbit during the demo, so this ask stands alone.

  7. 1:50open end
    The room

    Open end

    Music from the catalogue back on. The operator stays findable — the contact QR at the bar and by the door. The channel's next artists are usually standing in this part of the night.

Five rules hold the night together

Everything else is yours to shape. These five aren't.

The first and last voice is local

The operator opens and closes; Orbit speaks only in the middle. The night belongs to the channel.

No operator, no Night

There is no Creators Night without a local channel operator presenting in person. Until one exists, host Coffees.

The money moves for real

A real account, a real purchase, a real artist saying what arrived. Never a slide, never a rehearsed wallet. If the demo can't run on the venue's wifi, the Night isn't ready.

Show first, say second

Nothing is claimed from the stage that the room won't watch happen the same night. The strongest conclusions are the ones a room draws itself.

One ask

Contact the operator to join the channel. No newsletter, no second pitch, nothing else asked of the room.

What a Night needs

A Night is light to produce: a room, a screen, good wifi and the right people. Start from these defaults and tune them to your city — only the operator rule and the red line stay fixed.

The people

  • The channel operator — opens and closes
  • One catalogue artist — plays the spotlight, present for the demo
  • One Orbit voice for the keynote
  • Helpers for the demo — about one per forty guests

The room

  • 40–120 people — standing beats rows of chairs
  • PA and one microphone
  • A screen the whole room can read
  • Reliable wifi — and a hotspot in your pocket
  • A bar helps. This is a night, not a conference.

Before doors

  • The artist's release live on Orbit
  • The demo rehearsed in the venue, on the venue's wifi, that day
  • One test purchase completed end-to-end at soundcheck
  • Doors playlist from the channel's catalogue

The ask

  • One way to reach the operator — a QR code, a card, a number
  • Visible at the bar and at the exit
  • Nothing else. One night, one ask.

From the Nights

Short clips from the people who were there, and the pictures each Night leaves behind. Every chapter adds its own.

Creators Night: Nairobi

Chapter 01Visit the chapter →
Creators Night Nairobi — a rooftop crowd at dusk, string lights and the stage against the city skyline