How much do clippers make?

There is no honest average, so this page does the math instead.

Clipping pays per view. Every campaign on The Creators Club shows a rate in dollars per 1,000 views, a cap per clip, and how much budget is left in the pool. Your earnings on one clip are:

views ÷ 1,000 × rate, up to the cap.

Three worked examples

Say a campaign pays $1.00 per 1,000 views with a $300 cap per clip.

• A clip that gets 4,000 views earns $4.
• A clip that gets 80,000 views earns $80.
• A clip that gets 2 million views earns $300, because it hit the cap. Without the cap it would have been $2,000, which is why brands set caps.

Now say a smaller brand pays $0.50 per 1,000 views and a fast growing one pays $2.50. The same 80,000 view clip earns $40 on the first and $200 on the second. Rate matters as much as views, which is why it is on the card before you join.

What the spread looks like

Short video is lopsided. Most clips land under 1,000 views. Some land in the tens of thousands. Once in a while one goes to a million or more. Income follows the same shape: a lot of small amounts and a few big ones.

The clippers who earn the most do two things. They post a lot (20 to 40 clips a week across a few campaigns) so the big one has more chances to happen, and they study what their best clips had in common so the hit rate climbs.

The other numbers that change your income

• Minimum payout. Some campaigns set a dollar floor a clip has to earn before it goes to review, for example $1, which at a $1 rate is 1,000 views. Below that nothing is committed.
• Tracking window. Views count for a set number of days after you submit, 30 by default. A clip that blows up on day 45 does not add to that campaign.
• Budget left. When the pool is spent the campaign closes, and clips stop accruing. If a campaign shows $200 left and you have three clips climbing, that $200 is shared between everyone still tracking.
• The welcome bonus. New accounts get $25 (clippers) or $50 (UGC creators) added to their balance when they submit their first clip.

A realistic first month

Say you post 60 clips in your first month on two campaigns at $1 per 1,000. Fifty of them get under 1,000 views and earn nothing. Eight get 5,000 to 20,000 and earn $5 to $20 each, call it $90 total. Two get 150,000 and earn $150 each. That month is around $390 plus the $25 bonus. The second month is usually better because you know what works.

That is not a promise. It is what the math looks like when the rate is $1 and your hit rate is about one in thirty. Higher rates and a better hit rate move every number up.

You can see live rates right now on the campaign board without an account.