Ran clipping campaigns a few different ways before landing on straight CPM (cost per 1,000 views) payouts, and it's been the single best decision for quality.

Flat-fee-per-video setups reward volume, not performance — clippers dump out 10 mediocre cuts hoping one sticks. CPM flips the incentive: the only way to make real money is to make clips people actually watch. Suddenly everyone's studying hooks, pacing, captions, and posting times instead of just grinding output.

A few things that made the biggest difference once we switched:

• Give clippers raw footage, not just the finished show. The best cuts almost always come from moments that never made the final edit.

• Set a minimum view threshold before payout review. Otherwise you're manually reviewing hundreds of clips with 12 views each.

• Let clippers see what's already working. We drop our best-performing clips in the community chat so newer clippers can study the pattern instead of guessing.

We just opened this model up for Village Uncut 2 — $3 per 1,000 views, free to join, no cap on submissions. If you clip streamer/YouTube content for pay, curious what rate structures have worked (or flopped) for you.