How to pick the best clipping campaigns
The best clipping campaign for you is the one whose view minimum your clips clear, with budget left, clips being approved, and footage that clips well. The rate per 1,000 views matters less than it looks: a high rate you never collect pays nothing.
The rate against the view minimum
Start with what your clips usually get, not what you hope they'll get. Say your clips typically land between 3,000 and 10,000 views.
Campaign A pays $3 per 1,000 views with a 50,000-view minimum. Campaign B pays $1 per 1,000 with a 2,000-view minimum. On A, almost every clip earns nothing. On B, each clip earns $3 to $10. B pays more, though its rate is a third of A's.
As your account grows and your typical clip climbs, campaigns with higher minimums start to make sense. Pick for the clips you make now.
The cap per clip
A cap limits what one clip can earn. At $1.50 per 1,000 views with a $50 cap, a clip with 100,000 views earns $50, not $150. Caps matter most if you sometimes get big hits; if your clips rarely get near the cap, a campaign with a better minimum is worth more than one with no cap.
Budget left
Every campaign pays from a budget, and payouts stop when it runs out. A clip earns its views over days, so a campaign with little left may run dry before your clip is paid for all of them.
Look at what's left and how fast it's being spent. A small budget shared by many clippers can be gone in days; a large one spent slowly gives your clips time to earn.
Approval rate
Only approved clips are paid. Some campaigns approve most clips that follow the brief; others are strict or slow. If the listing shows recent approvals or how many clippers were paid, use it. Otherwise your own first few submissions tell you.
A campaign that approves few clips is worth less than its rate, by exactly that much. If half your clips are rejected, you're working at half the rate.
Content fit
Some footage clips easily: a streamer who talks constantly and reacts big, a podcast with strong opinions. Some barely clips at all: long quiet stretches, music you can't use, a format that doesn't make sense out of context.
Watch twenty minutes of the source before you commit. If you can't spot two or three moments worth posting, the campaign will cost you more time than it pays. Renafy's AutoClip helps here too: run it on a part of a stream and see what it finds, with why each moment was picked, before you put hours in.
Put it together: what an hour pays
The numbers only mean something together, so compare campaigns by what an hour of your clipping would pay on each. Take the clips you make in an hour, times the share that clear the minimum, times the share approved, times what an average paid clip earns.
Say you make 3 clips an hour. On Campaign B above, maybe 2 of every 3 clear its 2,000-view minimum and 70% of those are approved, earning $5 each: about $7 an hour. On a campaign paying $2 per 1,000 with a 10,000-view minimum, maybe 1 clip in 10 clears it, earning $24: about $5 an hour after the same approval rate, and far more uneven week to week. These are example numbers; your own clips are the real input.
Then lower your estimate for any campaign whose budget won't last the week, since part of every clip's views will go unpaid.
Red flags
Walk away from campaigns that show any of these:
- No budget left, or a budget nearly spent with no sign it'll be topped up.
- A vague brief: no clear rules on what to clip, where to post or what gets rejected, so approval comes down to someone's mood.
- Get-rich offers: campaigns promoting trading signals, gambling or money courses. They can put your account at odds with the platform's rules, and Renafy leaves them out of its list.
- Pay to join: a fee, a course or a paid Discord tier before you can clip.
- Payment outside the platform the campaign is listed on, or rules that change after you've posted.
Questions
What is a good rate per 1,000 views?
There's no single answer, because the rate only means something next to the view minimum, cap and budget. Compare what a typical clip of yours would earn on each campaign instead.
Should I clip for one campaign or several?
Start with one or two so you learn their briefs well. Add more once you know which ones approve your clips and pay.
How does Renafy rank campaigns?
By evidence that ordinary clippers are being paid now: recent approvals, how many clippers were paid and what a typical approved clip earned, weighed by the chance a new clipper's clip clears the view minimum. It's evidence, not a promise.
Is a brand-new campaign better than an older one?
Not by itself. A new campaign has its whole budget left but no record of paying anyone yet. An older one with steady approvals and budget to spare is often the safer bet.
When should I drop a campaign?
When its budget is nearly gone, its approvals dry up, or your clips keep landing under its minimum. Your time is better spent where your clips get paid.