How Creator Rewards works

A way to earn from the Shorts you make. Brands (and EzCutter itself) run campaigns with a brief; you make a Short that fits it, and approved Shorts earn estimated rewards based on their eligible views. It's in early access, and the EzCutter team runs the first campaigns by hand.

A brief with a reward rate, rules and limits: the minimum views a Short needs, the most one Short or one creator can earn, a total budget and a deadline. Each campaign page lists all of them. The terms you joined under are the ones applied to your Shorts, even if the campaign changes later.

Connect your YouTube channel in Settings, open a campaign and click Join Campaign. You can then submit Shorts from your connected channel. If the campaign requires a hashtag, it must be in the Short's title or description. You can't join a campaign you own.

A person on the EzCutter team reviews each one against the brief and rules, and approves or rejects it. A rejection may include a reason, which you can see on the Short.

Views your Short gains after it's approved. We read its YouTube view count at approval, and only the views on top of that count. A Short earns nothing until its eligible views reach the campaign's minimum.

Eligible views × the rate per 1,000 views. For example, $0.10 per 1,000 views means 50,000 eligible views estimate $5. It stops growing at the per-Short cap, the per-creator cap or when the campaign's budget is used up. If the view count falls, the estimate can fall with it.

Views are read from YouTube when EzCutter refreshes tracking. During early access the team may run this by hand, so your numbers can lag behind YouTube. Nothing is filled in between checks.

When your earning period closes: at the campaign's end, or after its earning window if it has one. Confirmed means the amount is final for that Short, not that it has been paid.

Payouts aren't live yet. Estimated and confirmed rewards show in My Content and Earnings, but they aren't a payment or a balance you can withdraw today.

Don't buy, bot or incentivise views. EzCutter doesn't have automatic detection: the team reviews Shorts by hand and looks into anything suspicious. A Short that breaks the rules can be rejected or, after approval, disqualified, which removes its estimated reward.

You create it, and a person on the EzCutter team reviews it. They can approve it, ask for changes or reject it, and you can see their note on the campaign. Creators can't join until it's approved and funded.

Budgets up to $2,350 are funded through Whop checkout after approval, and fees are added at checkout. The campaign goes live once the payment is verified.

A campaign with a budget above $2,350. It doesn't use checkout: you schedule a call, and the team reviews it with you and agrees how it's set up. It stays private, and can't go live until its funding is verified.

If YouTube stops returning it, we mark it unavailable and its reward stops growing. If that's still the case when its earning period closes, EzCutter holds its reward for review.

Rewards stay where they are while it's paused. A campaign can be paused by EzCutter, or automatically if it no longer has full verified funding.

Email support with the campaign and the Short's link. Creator Rewards is still early, and the team handles problems personally, so a fix may take a little time.