A clipper takes somebody else's long recording - a stream, a podcast, an interview - cuts the parts worth watching out of it, and posts them. Sometimes for a rate per thousand views, sometimes for a share of what the clip sells. None of the things people assume you need are on the list: no camera, no audience of your own, no editing background.
Four things, and two of them you already have.
The cutting happens on a computer or in a browser. The judging happens on a phone, because that is where the clip will be watched and at what size. If you can tell within two seconds whether you would keep scrolling, you already have the part of this job that cannot be taught.
This is the step people skip and it is the one that voids payouts. A campaign hands you the source and the permission in the same breath. Clipping a stream nobody invited you to clip is a copyright claim waiting to be filed, and the claim lands on your account, not on the creator's.
Campaign platforms are where almost all of this money is: a creator or a brand puts up a pool, publishes a brief, and pays out on the views your clips bring in. They are not all the same and they do not all pay the same way, which is the next section.
A new account with three clips on it reads as a bot to the platform and to the reviewer both. One account posting every day is worth more than five posting weekly, and it is also the only arrangement that tells you anything: with five you never learn which clips worked, you only learn that something did.
Three shapes, and they pay very differently.
Per view is the common one: the campaign publishes a rate per thousand or per million, you submit the clip's link, and the payout follows the view count. Per sale pays a cut of whatever the clip sells, which is far less per view and far more per buyer. And a flat fee per accepted clip exists too, usually where the brief is strict and the brand cares more about control than about reach. The first is where a beginner should start, because it is the only one of the three where you find out quickly whether your clips travel.
Rates are approximate and subject to change. Kick Clipping Program rates are community-sourced, not officially published by Kick. What any single campaign pays is set by that campaign, not by these averages - and every payout decision is the provider's, not ours.
Those figures are what the programs publish, not what any one campaign will offer you. To see what a rate comes to on a real view count, run the numbers; for how long the money takes to arrive after a clip is accepted, here is the wait.
Five steps, in this order. Most of what goes wrong in the first month is one of them skipped.
Views on a clip and money for a clip are not the same event, and the gap between them is where beginners lose their first month.
A clip can do the numbers and still be rejected: wrong length, missing credit, the wrong platform, a banned edit, or a duplicate of something already submitted. The rejection list goes through the six reasons it actually happens. Separately, traffic that does not look human gets a clip voided even when you bought nothing - the botting flag is about that, because it happens to people who did nothing wrong.
Before you commit a week to one program, it is worth knowing how they differ: how the platforms compare on pay, and how a campaign works from the inside.
Yes, and a campaign is the usual way you get it: joining one is the creator telling you to clip them. Without that you are republishing someone else's work, and the claim is filed against the account that posted it. Fair use is a defence argued after the fact, not a permission slip you can plan around.
No. The whole job is choosing moments out of somebody else's recording and framing them well. Plenty of the accounts doing this at volume have never had a person on camera.
Longer than the views suggest. Most programs count views over a fixed window, then review, then pay on a cycle, so weeks rather than days is normal even when nothing is wrong. Budget for that before you count on the money.
You need something that cuts, captions and reframes. By hand that means learning an editor, having a machine that can run one, and knowing what a good cut looks like before you make it - and a batch out of one recording is hours that way and minutes with a tool. That is the whole trade: you paste the recording, the clips come back framed on the speaker and captioned, and what is left is choosing which of them to post, which is the part you are paid for.
Paste a recording, get the clips back captioned and framed. No card required.