Release windows & exploitation models · Specialist
Free ad-supported streaming television
Also called: FAST
ELI5
Scheduled streaming channels available without subscription and funded by advertising.
Used in conversation
“The agreement should state free ad-supported streaming television clearly.”
Pitch context
You may encounter “Free ad-supported streaming television” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.
Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.
Connected terms
- FASTThe search label “FAST” can route to both entries.
Sources & evidence · 8
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- World Intellectual Property Organization — Rights Clearance: A Guide for Independent FilmmakersSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- World Intellectual Property Organization — Rights, Camera, Action! IP Rights and the Film-Making ProcessSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- Writers Guild of America West — No Writing Left BehindSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- Writers Guild of America West — Fight Back Against Free WorkSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- Producers Guild of America — Producing Credits for Episodic Television (Scripted)Supporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Producers Guild of America — Producing Credits for Non-Fiction TelevisionSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Format Recognition and Protection Association — FRAPA Format ResourcesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- U.S. Copyright Office — Copyright BasicsSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14