Clipping, explained
People get paid $1.42 per 1,000 views to clip videos
Average live rate across all open campaigns
Nobody is selling you a course. Brands and influencers pay people to make short clips of their content. Here's what that pays, and how to start without your account getting blocked in the first week.
Five minutes to read. Free to start.
The money
What clipping actually pays
Drag the sliders: views you get, clips you post, rate the campaign pays. Nothing else changes the number.
Your numbers
An estimate, not a promise. Yours might differ.
One clip can pay for the whole month
There is no limit on what one upload can earn. At $1.42 per 1K, the live rate across open campaigns right now:
And the part nobody counts
Nobody checks all 21. You keep up with the four or five you know, and they are not the same job: a big board (80+ campaigns open, so the terms, the budget left, and whether any of it beats what you already run) is two or three hours, a smaller one 20 to 30 minutes. One full round is about 6 hours.
Do that twice a week and it is 54 hours a month looking for work instead of doing it, and the 16 platforms you never open are where the best drop of the week drained without you.
And that is the price of decent campaigns, not the best ones. Those drain in a day or two, so most open and close between your rounds. Plenty of rounds end with nothing worth taking, and those hours are gone too. ClipRadar is $25, about $0.46 an hour to get that time back, on all 21.
Then you hit a limit
Three of them, and you meet them in this order as you add accounts. The number on each is how many accounts you're running when it hits. Only the first one is about you.
Your editing, and what you edit
Your editing is yours to improve. But a perfect clip of someone nobody follows still gets no views, and a campaign page won't tell you which one you're looking at.
The viral score tells you how big the subject's audience is, and how well they clip, before you spend an evening on it.
Finding enough open campaigns
Three accounts need three times as many campaigns, all open at the same time, all with budget left. Campaigns drain in days, so you never stop looking.
Every campaign from 21 platforms in one feed, with the budget left on each, and an alert about two minutes after a new one opens.
Knowing what actually paid
After a few hundred clips, the question isn't what to post any more. It's which niches and which hosts are worth doing again, and guessing wrong wastes a month.
Views and payouts counted per clip, and a plain summary of each month, so your own records answer that instead of your memory.
21 platforms are running campaigns right now
Getting started
Five steps to your first payout
Ten minutes a day for three or four days, then you're just posting clips. No equipment, no money, no followers needed.
Pick a niche you already watch
3 minutesStreamers, podcasts, football, music. You'll watch hours of it looking for good moments, so pick something you'd watch anyway, then check what that niche pays, because some pay much more than others.
One niche per account, so the algorithm knows who to show it to.
Warm the account up first
10-15 min a day, 3-4 daysA brand-new account posting polished clips looks like a bot, and once a platform decides that, it is hard to change its mind. A few days of using the account like a normal person fixes it, and the watching is also research, because you learn what already gets views in your niche.
If you already have an account you use yourself, post from that instead: a real account with real history is already warm, so you can skip straight to posting.
Boring, free, and skipping it on a brand-new account is the single biggest reason people quit in week one. Once the account is warm, posting more is what matters most: two or three clips a day is where it starts to be real money.
Check three things before you edit
2 minutesAll three decide what a campaign really pays, and all three are usually buried far down the campaign page: minimum views before anything counts, total budget & budget left, and where you're allowed to post.
Get one wrong and a good clip earns nothing: an empty budget pays you the same as a clip nobody watched. ClipRadar shows all three on the campaign, so you don't have to look for them.
Post it, submit it, get paid
per clipVertical, subtitled, the best moment in the first second. The views arrive over days, so post it and leave it alone.
ClipRadar counts those views, works out what you are owed, and sums each month up in a couple of sentences: which campaign earned the most, and whether it came from three big days or thirty small ones. After a few months, those records tell you which niches and hosts really pay, instead of which ones felt like they did.
Keep posting while it still looks flat
1-3 weeksAlmost nobody's first week works. The account is new, the platform is still working out who to show you to, and views arrive over days rather than hours, so your first clips get judged before most of their views have even landed.
Most people stop right there, in the flat part, and they stop for the same reason: they checked a number that had not started moving yet. The clippers earning real money are not better editors than you. They are the ones who were still posting in week four.
So give it three weeks of the same thing: two or three clips a day, one niche per account. Spend some of that time watching the clips in your niche that did get views this week: the first second, the caption, where the cut is. Then make yours look like those. Copying what already worked in your own niche beats inventing something, and it is the part of you that improves while the views are still catching up.
Each of these steps is also a free lesson, if you want the longer version.
One clip
What a clip that lands is worth
Three real clips, cut from streams and a podcast by people doing exactly this. Under each is what those views would pay at $1.42 per 1K, the rate quoted at the top of this page, for as long as the campaign has budget left.
Where to find campaigns
There's no one place to find them
There is no single list of them all, and no platform tells you about the other ones. Campaigns open on 21 different platforms, plus the Discord servers brands run themselves, and each one has its own signup and writes its campaigns a different way. You have two options:
Check every platform yourself
Free- Make an account on the big platforms (Whop, ContentRewards, Clipster, Clipperz), then join the Discord servers of the brands whose clips you already watch.
- Go back every few days. Campaigns spend their budget fast, so what you saw last week is already out of date.
- On every campaign you like, check three things before you edit: the rate, the budget left, and where you're allowed to post.
It's free. It just costs you 6 hours you meant to spend editing, twice a week (often to find nothing worth taking), and whatever opens on the platforms you didn't get to, you never see at all.
Read them in one feed
Free to start- ClipRadar checks all 21 of those platforms for you and puts every open campaign in one feed, then filters it down to a minimum rate per 1K, budget still left, and the niches and platforms you actually clip, so what you read is only what's worth your time. The rate, the budget and the posting rules sit on every card.
- Free: the campaigns winding down open by name: the ones that have run 72 hours, are down to 6-40% of budget, and are under $10,000, paying up to $4/1K. They still have money on them and nobody is racing you to them, which is what makes them the ones to start on: you get to run the whole job once, from claiming to getting paid, without having to be first.
- Free, daily: on top of those you pick a niche and get one full campaign in it, every day: the whole campaign, nothing held back.
- Paid: the whole board: all 620 live campaigns, including the 34 that opened in the last 24 hours, and an alert about two minutes after the next one does.
- Either way you read one list instead of checking 21 sites, and you know what is left on a campaign before you edit for it, instead of finding out after the money is gone.
The words
Five words and you can read any campaign
Every campaign page assumes you know these five. You don't need anything else to start.
What a campaign pays per 1,000 views. $2 per 1K on 100,000 views is $200. It's the number you compare campaigns on.
The total amount of money the campaign has. Everyone gets paid out of it, and when it's empty the campaign stops paying, even if your clip is still growing.
A new campaign opening. The good ones spend their whole budget in days, so getting there early matters more than anything else.
How many views a clip needs before it earns anything at all. Below that number you get nothing, however good the clip was.
One creator or brand paying for clips of their content, with a rate, a budget, rules and an end date.
What those rates are actually worth, niche by niche, is lesson two of the course.
Picking well
Three things that decide what you keep
None of them is your editing, and you can check all three before you start. That is the entire reason ClipRadar exists.
Being early beats a high rate
Good campaigns drain in days. Join late and a 200,000-view clip earns nothing, because the budget was gone while you were still editing.
ClipRadar watches 21 platforms and tells you about two minutes after a campaign opens, and shows how much budget is left on every one.
The rate you see isn't the rate you get
Most campaigns only start paying after a minimum number of views, and most only pay for clips posted on certain platforms. Both are usually buried far down the page.
Every campaign here shows its minimum views, where you're allowed to post, and how long it has left, in their own fields next to the rate.
Some hosts are slow to pay
The host is the brand or creator paying for the clips. Most campaigns pay out fine. A few hosts are slow, or strict about approving clips, and there is no one place to look that up, so people only find out after they have done the work.
Clippers report their payouts back into ClipRadar, so you can see each host's record on its campaigns and choose the ones that pay well.
Why views stay low
Why the same work does 100× on a different streamer
Two people cut clips in the same week, edited about as well as each other, and one does a hundred times what the other does. That gap was decided before either of them opened an editor, by which streamer they picked to clip.
A clip borrows an audience. It doesn't build one. The 400 see it because they already follow that streamer. The two million are already looking for exactly this. Neither number is the clipper's own following: both clips went out from a new account, which is the point. You are not short of followers, you picked a streamer who was.
Editing is a multiplier. It needs something to multiply.
A campaign page gives you the rate, the budget and the rules, so the choice that decides your view count gets made on the rate alone. That is what the viral score is for: how big the subject's audience is and how well they clip, on the campaign, before you spend the evening instead of after it.
Viral potential
0–100An AI reads every campaign that reaches ClipRadar, works out who or what it is actually about (the creator, the show, the game), and scores how well short clips of that subject spread. Four things decide the number:
How many people already follow the subject, and how much they watch.
How easy it is to cut into good clips. Reactions, drama and funny moments work well; polished ads do not.
Whether people are talking about the subject right now. Someone popular last year gets last year's views.
Whether clip channels already repost this subject: proof people want exactly what you're about to make.
“huge Twitch reach + clippable rage moments”
Every score carries the one-line reason it was given, so you can disagree with it.
It isn't a fame score
A medium-size creator with very clippable moments scores higher than a famous but boring one. Reach is one of four things it looks at, not the answer.
It's separate from the deal
The opportunity score rates the offer: rate per 1,000, budget left, how strict the rules are. A great offer for a subject nobody wants clips of is still a wasted evening.
It never guesses
An app or product advert with no creator behind it gets no viral score at all, instead of a made-up one. An empty field tells you something too.
One campaign a day, free
You need one campaign you can start today, not 620. Free account, pick the niche you know, and one opens every day: everything on it, including its viral score with the reason behind it. The ones winding down are open to you too.
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