Creator pay
How UGC pay per 1,000 views works
Two brands can pay for the same video in two very different ways. Here is what views-based pay is, what it is worth, and what to check before you post for anyone.
The two ways brands pay for UGC
The common arrangement is a flat fee: a fixed price per video, agreed before you shoot, paid on delivery. It is simple, and the risk sits with the brand — a video that reaches nobody still pays the same as one that reaches everybody.
Views-based pay flips that. You are paid per 1,000 views the video actually gets, usually on a rising scale: the more a video earns, the higher the rate on its views. There is no cap. The trade-off is real — a video that flops earns little — but a video that finds an audience keeps paying after you post it, and you can see the number move every day instead of waiting for a delivery invoice to clear.
Our program’s bands
The NanoCorp Creators program pays per 1,000 views on short-form videos posted about NanoCorp, on TikTok, Instagram and X. The rate a video earns rises with its views. The bands, as they stand today:
Rate bands
Views are logged on day 1, day 3 and day 7 after publishing, then weekly, and a program manager verifies them before they count. Pay runs monthly by statement: each video, the band math, the total, approved before anything is marked paid.
What to check before you post for any brand
Whether pay is flat or on views, the questions are the same, and a brand that answers them plainly is the one that pays on time. Where do the view numbers come from — the platform’s own analytics, or a screenshot you take? Who verifies them, and when after posting? Is the rate on future views fixed, or can it change after the video is live? Is there a cap, a floor, or a minimum follower count that quietly changes the rate? And what happens to a video that gets taken down — is it excluded, and who decides?
Views-based pay makes one of these answers the whole deal: you want the rate bands in writing, the verification method named, and a statement you can check line by line before you agree to anything. If a brand will only offer “we’ll sort payment later”, that is the answer.
Who views-based pay suits
If you can reliably put a short video in front of thousands of people, per-1,000 rates beat a flat fee fast, and uncapped pay keeps compounding as your distribution grows. If you are posting once for a brand and moving on, a flat fee is the safer side of the trade. Neither is wrong; what matters is that the deal is written down either way.
The NanoCorp Creators program is open to US-based short-form creators. The application is one screen and we reply within 3 days: apply here. If you want to see the program’s own page first, it starts here.
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