Clipster campaigns: what they pay and what your clips need

How Clipster works

Clipster is a marketplace between brands and short-form creators. Brands, artists and streamers fund a campaign with a budget and a rate per view. Clippers post videos to their own accounts and get paid for verified views that the brand approves.

1. Set up your payout account first. Under the creator terms, fees earned before you add one are held for 30 days, then forfeited.
2. Connect the account you will post from, and give it a clear niche. Campaigns check that your account fits theirs, and some need a follower minimum.
3. Pick a campaign. Each one lists its rate, accepted platforms, budget used and rules. 23% of clipping campaigns make you apply first.
4. Read the brief and get the footage. Most briefs link a Google Doc, a Drive or frame.io folder, or a Discord server with the clips, watermark and examples.
5. Make and post the clip on your own TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X account. Keep the stats public.
6. Submit the post link in the Clipster app or website while the campaign still has budget.
7. Get paid for approved views. Views count once the clip passes the campaign’s minimum and engagement bar; the brand approves the content; Clipster pays the fees to your payout account (creator terms, section 3).

All 88 live campaigns

Every public campaign on September 25, 2026, with the numbers that decide whether it is worth your time. “Post cap” is the most one clip can earn and the view count where it stops paying. “Budget used” is how much of the campaign’s budget is already committed, the same measure Clipster’s progress bar uses.

Download the full table as CSV. Free to cite with a link to this page.

What Clipster campaigns pay

Clipster shows rates per 1M views. A rate of $1,000 per 1M is $1 per 1,000 views. Rates by campaign type:

The rate is only part of the deal. Four limits decide what a clip actually earns:

• Minimum views. A clip earns nothing until it passes the campaign’s threshold: 1,000 to 7,500 views, median 2,000.
• Per-post cap. The median clipping campaign stops paying one clip at $675. Half of clipping campaigns reach their cap by 800,000 views; a clip that goes further earns nothing more, so a second good clip beats one viral clip.
• Per-creator cap. The median clipping campaign pays one creator at most $1,750 over the whole campaign (range $750–$10,000). After that, spread your clips across campaigns.
• Engagement. Each campaign sets a minimum engagement rate for views to count: 0.2% to 6%, median 3%. Clipster tracks likes, comments, shares and saves per post.

Example: a clip with 50,000 approved views on a $1,000 campaign earns $50. A clip that stops below the view minimum earns nothing. A brand that buys a Boost Code (such as a TikTok Spark code) for your post pays you a separate boost fee, outside the campaign’s caps.

Clipster earnings calculator

Preset to the median clipping campaign. Change any number to match the campaign you are looking at. The full clipping calculator explains each input and works for other platforms too.

Budgets, timing and rule changes

Views only pay while a campaign has budget. Late clips compete for what is left.

• Budget used. The median campaign had used 27.5% of its budget. 43 campaigns had used under 25%; 18 had used 75% or more.
• Read the bar with care. Clipster’s web app shows any campaign between 69% and 83% used as 69%. 8 campaigns were in that range on September 25, 2026. Our table shows the exact figure.
• Rules change mid-campaign. 14 campaigns changed their requirements in the 7 days before our snapshot, and 8 changed their rate. Reread the brief before each post, not only when you join.
• Submission limits. Campaigns cap submissions per social account (median 50); 20 also cap them per day (median 45).
• Posts outlive the campaign. A post must stay live for 30 days after the campaign ends, so plan your account’s feed around it.

What clipping campaigns ask for

Across the 22 live clipping campaigns:

• 82% name the footage. They link a content folder, asset drive or Discord channel. Clips from anything else are usually rejected.
• 50% need a watermark or logo, such as the streamer’s handle or a sponsor logo, on every clip.
• 50% ask for your own edit: on-screen captions, your own text, or “meaningful edits” rather than a raw cut.
• 6–10 second minimums. 12 campaigns set a minimum length, and 4 cap clips at 60 seconds.
• 32% explicitly ban reuploads and clips taken from other clippers’ accounts.
• 36% are built on live streams, clipped from a Twitch or Kick stream or its content folder.
• Platform mix. 91% accept Instagram, 77% TikTok, 59% YouTube and 14% X.

Music campaigns work differently: 100% of them require the campaign’s sound on the post, which you add inside TikTok or Instagram. Logo campaigns supply the logo file, and Clipster’s rules require a 1080×1920 template with the logo already placed. You may not move, resize or recolor it.

Clipster sorts campaigns and accounts into niches: Sports, Fitness, Combat Sports, Gaming, Streamer, Movies and TV, Anime and Manga, Gambling, Music, Motivation, Riddles, Memes, Lifestyle, Other. Build each posting account around one of them. A clip on an off-niche account is a common reason for rejection, even when the clip itself is good.

Rules that get clips rejected

Clipster’s general campaign rules apply to every campaign. Breaking them can lead to a rejected submission or a ban from all campaigns.

• No boosted views. No view bots, paid ads, engagement groups, retweeting or quote-posting your own post on X, or shoutouts from unrelated accounts.
• Keep posts up. Posts must stay live for at least 30 days after the campaign ends.
• Keep stats public. Hidden likes or view counts disqualify a submission.
• Post in the niche. The account must match the campaign’s niche, and captions and hashtags must match the post.
• One clip, one campaign. Each post must be unique and made for that campaign.
• Meet the engagement bar. The rules name 0.2% as the platform-wide minimum and up to 3% on higher-paying campaigns; in our snapshot some asked for 6%.
• Check excluded audiences. The rules exclude some niches, languages and audience regions, and individual campaigns add their own.

Protect your earnings

The most common complaint about Clipster is a clip rejected for suspected fake views close to payout. You cannot control the review, but you can make a genuine clip easy to defend. Our recommendations, beyond Clipster’s rules:

• Keep evidence. Screenshot each post’s analytics when you submit and again when the campaign ends: views, traffic sources, audience countries, watch time. If a clip is flagged, you can show where the views came from.
• Grow only through the platform. No link sharing in groups, no promo accounts, no giveaways that ask for likes. Organic distribution is the only kind the rules accept.
• Match the audience the campaign wants. Views from an excluded region or language can sink a clip. Check audience countries before you submit.
• Do not touch a submitted post. Do not delete, archive, re-upload or hide its stats until 30 days after the campaign ends.
• Keep one account per niche. Mixed feeds make a clip look out of place and raise the rejection risk.
• Spread across campaigns. Per-post and per-creator caps limit what one campaign can pay, and one rejection hurts less.

Checklist before you post

• I read the brief today, not just when I joined
• The footage comes from the campaign’s folder or named source
• The watermark or logo is on, if the campaign asks for one
• The clip meets the minimum length (and any maximum)
• On-screen captions or my own text are in, if asked
• The posting account matches the campaign’s niche
• Caption and hashtags match the clip and the niche
• Likes and view counts are public
• The platform is on the campaign’s list
• The campaign still has budget left
• My payout account is set up in Clipster
• I will keep the post up 30 days past the campaign’s end

Making Clipster clips with FastClip

FastClip suits campaigns built on people talking: podcasts, interviews, commentary and IRL streams where the words carry the clip. See our podcast clipping guide for how to pick moments that hold viewers. The fastest route from a long video to a captioned cut:

1. 1. Bring in the campaign footage

   Paste a YouTube or X link, or download the file from the campaign’s folder and upload it (up to 5 GB). Keep it in your library and cut as many clips from it as you need.

2. 2. Find the moment

   Set the start and end on the timeline, to the fraction of a second. For YouTube sources, select words in the transcript instead of scrubbing. Start a few words early so the clip makes sense on its own.

3. 3. Add captions

   FastClip transcribes the clip in the language spoken and burns in word-timed captions. That covers briefs that ask for on-screen captions.

4. 4. Post, then submit

   Publish straight to Instagram Reels or X, or download the MP4 for TikTok and YouTube. Then submit the post link on Clipster.

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How we collected the data

On September 25, 2026 we read every active campaign in the public list behind clipster.gg/discover, the same list a signed-out visitor sees, plus each campaign’s public detail. Discord-exclusive campaigns are not in it. Rates are the posted maximum per platform; caps and budgets are posted maximums, not amounts paid. Budget used follows Clipster’s own formula: earnings counted against the campaign divided by its budget. Requirement shares and table notes come from each campaign’s written guidelines, so a rule stated only in a linked brief is not counted. Payout terms are from Clipster’s creator terms; ratings are from the US App Store and Trustpilot on the same day. Percentages are rounded. Found an error? Tell us.