Creator Lab Season Rules

Who can join

You are 18 or older. Joining is free and instant while spots remain; we can still remove accounts that break these rules.
You can be paid by PayPal, Wise, or ClipUGC credits. Set it on your Lab page before the season closes.
Your posting account is at least 30 days old with three earlier public posts.
One Creator Lab account per person. One payout address per person.
We may decline an application without giving a reason. Spots are limited to 50.

A public video on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or X that visibly uses ClipUGC: the studio on screen, our watermark, or a public influencer from our gallery.
Submitted from your dashboard within three days of posting, with the hook and format filled in.
The same video on several platforms is several submissions. Views count separately. The per-video cap applies once across all of them.
Reposts of other people's videos, real people used as characters, misleading edits, health, finance or earnings claims are not counted and can end your season.

Any realistic generated person needs the platform AI label. TikTok: AI-generated content toggle. YouTube: altered or synthetic content. Instagram: AI info.
Because the fund pays you, every video needs a paid-partnership disclosure: the platform toggle, or #sponsored first in the caption, before the fold. This is the law in most countries and we check it before paying.
The caption mentions @clipugc and carries your link.
Do not name the tool in the first three seconds. Hook first, reveal after the demo. Better for you, better for the video.

Seven days after you submit, upload a screenshot of the native analytics: views, top territories, traffic sources. We compare it to the public counter.
Views freeze at day 7 after submission, even if the season has ended by then.
We look at likes to views (about 1% or more), real comments, plausible territories, and whether views arrived as a single-day spike or sit exactly at the cap. If something looks off we hold the video and ask. A second unclear answer is a rejection.
Bought views, paid boosts, engagement pods or view sellers end your season. Everything not yet verified is forfeited.
A video deleted or taken down before day 7 earns nothing. Taken down after verification, the second half is forfeited.

$0.50 per 1,000 verified views, from 1,000 views, up to $20 per video and $60 per creator per season.
Viral bonuses stack on top: 10K +$5, 50K +$15, 100K +$30.
The first approved video of the first 25 creators earns $2 extra.
Weekly missions and the finals have their own pools, picked by hand at the deadline.
Bring a creator who gets a video approved: $2 or 25 credits. Bring a user who makes a video through your link: 20 credits.
All of it comes out of the Season 1 Creator Fund of $500. When the fund is used up the season closes: verified videos are still paid, open missions and the finals are still paid, new submissions close.
Rates and caps can change between seasons. Inside a season a change applies only to videos verified after it, and the current rate is always on the Lab page.

Half of each verified video is payable at verification. The other half after a day-30 check that the video is still public.
Payouts go out in one batch about ten days after the season closes. Minimum cash payout $10. PayPal or Wise, or ClipUGC credits at 10 credits per dollar.
Credits are the only option if PayPal and Wise do not serve your country, or if you are in a country we cannot pay.
US creators earning over $600 a year would need a W-9. The season cap makes that impossible, so no tax form is needed.

Your affiliate link comes from our Lemon Squeezy hub, where you accept its own terms. Every payment from a customer who bought through it pays you 30%, monthly, for as long as they stay. Refunds and chargebacks reverse the commission.
No self-referrals, no paid search on our brand name, no coupon sites. Same rules as the public affiliate program.
Customers you bring count toward your leaderboard score and your tier. We enter them weekly from the hub.

Score = verified views x (1 + people you brought who made a video / 10) x (1 + customers / 2).
Missions and the finals are skill contests judged by hand: views, engagement, people brought in and how well the video does what the brief asked. No purchase is required to enter. Ties go to the earlier submission.
We may feature any approved video on our site and social accounts, with your handle. You keep every other right to it.

One email thread, reply to any of ours. We answer within seven days and the answer is final for that season.
We can pause or end the Lab at any time. Anything already verified is still paid.
Accounts that look like store review or testing infrastructure cannot join.