If you already make edits, the work is done. The part most editors never get is the part where somebody pays for the views.
That is what a paid campaign is. A brand puts up a budget, you post an edit that meets its brief, and on edits.gg each approved video earns your flat rate, plus a bonus when it passes set view counts. No audience threshold from us, and no pitching for each campaign.
What the rate actually means
On edits.gg you are paid a flat rate for each approved video. The rate is set for you rather than per campaign. If you have none yet, press Request a rate on your dashboard and share a few of your edits; our team answers with an offer, which you accept or decline there. Every brief shows your rate once you have one.
On top of that, a campaign can pay bonuses when a video passes set view counts. The brief lists them before you start.
Your rate and the campaign's bonuses are locked to your edit at the moment you submit it. If either changes later, that applies to edits submitted after the change and never to yours. This matters more than it sounds: it means submitting early is never punished by a later change.
A campaign also has a budget, and the budget is finite. When there is no room left for another edit, the campaign shows Full and takes no new edits, though bonuses on the edits already in keep landing until it ends. The bonuses and the budget are both on the campaign page, so you can see how much room is left before you spend an evening on an edit.
Getting set up
Three things, none of which take long.
- Make an account. Sign-in is a code to your email, so there is no password to invent or forget.
- Connect the account you post from with Sign in with TikTok. The connection is read only. It covers your profile, your follower count and your own posts. It cannot post, message anyone or change anything, and your password never leaves TikTok.
- Pick a campaign on Explore and read its brief properly. That is the whole rulebook for whether your edit earns.
What happens after you post
Post the edit, then paste the link back on the campaign. Your edit is accepted straight away and your rate shows as pending in your balance, unless your rate or the campaign sets a view minimum, in which case it is earned once the edit reaches the higher of the two. Its views start counting toward bonuses once it is six hours old.
From there, view counts are read from TikTok's own API over the connection you authorised. Nothing is self reported and there is nothing to screenshot, which also means there is nothing to argue about. A fresh reading is taken roughly every six hours.
Your edit keeps counting until the campaign ends, not for some fixed window after you post. An edit posted on day one of a month long campaign can still reach a bonus in week four.
When the money arrives
Money from a campaign that is still running shows as locked. Views are still moving, so the bonuses are not final and paying out early would mean settling a figure that is about to change.
Nothing is paid out automatically. When the campaign finishes, a person reads every edit on it against the brief. Anything that broke the brief earns nothing, and the brand is not charged for it. Everything else is released into your balance and you get an email. An edit flagged for a check stays locked until our team clears it.
Once earnings are released they are yours to withdraw. Add a PayPal address in your settings, and request a withdrawal any time your withdrawable balance is at least $20. Withdrawals are sent by hand through PayPal.
One condition applies after you are paid: the post stays up, and stays as posted, for 30 days.
The things that cost editors money
Most edits that earn nothing fail for boring reasons rather than for quality.
- Posting from an account you have not connected. Only a connected account can be read, so an edit from anywhere else cannot be counted.
- Submitting the same post to two campaigns. A post can only ever earn on one, however the link is written.
- Ignoring a rule in the brief. Every campaign lists what gets an edit approved and what gets it rejected, in the brand's own words.
- Buying views or engagement. It does not work, and it is the fastest way to earn nothing on an edit that would otherwise have paid.
- Taking the post down inside 30 days.
Start here
Explore lists every live campaign with its view bonuses and its rules. Read a brief before you make anything, because the brief is the difference between an edit that earns and an edit that does not.