Get paid for real views
Make clips for brands. We wait a day, count the views that are still there, and pay you for those — straight to your wallet.
No signup fee · no follower minimum · 0% cut of your earnings
Every campaign, and what is left in it
You can see the budget, the rate and the wait before you spend an evening editing — including which campaigns have no money behind them yet.
Get paid in three steps
Post, wait a day, get paid.
Post your clip
Pick a campaign and send us your link. Your rate and the wait lock in the moment it is accepted, and the brand cannot change them afterwards.
The hold
We take the view count from the platform itself, never from you, and take it again a day later. Bought views are gone by then. Real ones are not.
Get paid
USDC lands in your own wallet for every view that lasted. We never hold your money, so there is no minimum and nothing to withdraw.
The world’s largest media platforms are adopting this payment rail
In April 2026, Meta launched USDC creator payouts built on Circle’s infrastructure. Instant, borderless settlement in digital dollars is officially the new industry benchmark.
Digital dollars are how creators get paid now
Meta rolled it out through Stripe on Circle's USDC, expanding across more than 160 markets. Nobody has to be convinced that paying creators in stablecoins works — platforms with billions of users have already validated it.
Nothing there waits to see if the views were real
Faster payment on unverified numbers is just faster payment for bought views. We count, wait a day, count again, and pay on the lower figure. That is the critical layer nobody else provides, ensuring brands only pay for genuine engagement.
We are not proposing an unproven payment mechanism. We build on the exact same Circle USDC rails used by global tech leaders, fortified with a 24-hour verification hold.
Your score is just your own numbers
The same figure we pay you on, shown back to you.
Other platforms give you a trust score built on ratings and approval rates. Those measure how the platform feels about you, and you can push them up by posting a lot of anything.
Ours is just maths. Your standing is how many of your views were still there when the wait ended — the exact number we pay you on. You cannot game it by posting more, because buying views pushes it down: the fake ones disappear, and they still count against you.
Fewer than three clips counted
You have not proved anything yet — and nor has anyone else this early. We would rather say that than hand you a score based on one video.
Most of your views stick
Brands look for this. It is the difference between a real audience and numbers that show up fast and vanish overnight.
Almost nothing you post disappears
If you have never bought a view, you land here without trying. If you buy them, you cannot — however much you post.
Protection that is checked, not promised
Each one is built into the code, and we break it on purpose to check it holds.
Taken from your earnings
We charge brands per campaign and per settled payout. A percentage of spend would mean our revenue rises when a brand pays for bots, and we would rather not hold that incentive at all than promise to resist it.
Before a single view is paid for
Counts are read from the platform, then read again a day later, and you are paid on the lowest figure across the window. The wait is the product.
Terms lock on acceptance
Rate, hold and cap are copied onto your submission. A brand ending a campaign refuses new clips — it does not abandon work already taken.
Budgets you can check yourself
Every campaign names the wallet its money sits in. One that has not funded is labelled unfunded before you spend an evening on it.
Invariants, each proved by breaking it
A budget that cannot be exceeded, a per-creator cap, a kill switch with no override. Each tested continuously so money stays safe.
Simple, Transparent Platform Fees
Tiered on campaign budget, flat within each tier — never a percentage of payouts.
Under $1,000 Campaign Budget
Full Gemini AI clip verification, 24h view-hold tracking, Base USDC payouts, and ~$0.05 per settled payout.
$1,000 – $10,000 Campaign Budget
Priority oracle polling, custom CPM floor caps, reserved standing slot allocation.
$10,000 – $50,000 Campaign Budget
Multi-platform routing (YouTube + Shorts), custom verifier prompts, and telemetry analytics.
$50,000+ Campaign Budget
Dedicated enterprise SLA, Cloud KMS key signing, Slack/Discord webhook alerts (+ talk to us).
Your questions, answered
The things creators ask before their first clip.
Why wait?Why 24 hours, when other platforms pay sooner?
Because platforms delete fake views after the fact, usually within a day. Paying before that happens is how brands end up buying bot views without knowing. The wait is the whole point — if you want paying the second you post, we are the wrong platform on purpose.
Falling viewsWhat if my view count drops?
We pay on the lowest count we saw during the wait, so a drop lowers what you are owed. We never take money back: what you have been paid is yours, and a falling count just means a smaller next payment, never a negative one.
Getting paidWhen do I get paid, and is there a minimum?
Usually minutes after the wait ends, straight to your wallet. No minimum, nothing to withdraw, and no balance sitting with us — your own wallet is where it lands.
FeesIs anything taken from my earnings?
No. We charge the brand a flat fee per campaign and per payment, never a slice of your earnings. A percentage would mean we earn more when a brand pays for bots.
RejectionsWhy was my clip not paid?
Every refusal tells you why, in words. A clip still inside its waiting period says so and is not a rejection. A clip that missed the brief says which part it missed.
USDCWhat is USDC?
1 USDC = $1, always. It is a digital dollar, issued by a regulated company called Circle that holds the actual dollars backing it. It is not a cryptocurrency that swings in value — the whole point is that it does not. It is a dollar that can move over the internet in seconds.
You can hold it, send it, or convert it to your local currency through most exchanges.
Why USDCWhy pay in that rather than into my bank?
Because it arrives, wherever you are. A bank transfer from a brand in one country to a creator in another takes days, costs a slice, and sometimes quietly fails. This lands in minutes and costs cents to send.
It also means we never hold your money. Payment goes straight from the brand's wallet to yours. There is no balance sitting with us, no minimum to reach before you can withdraw, and nothing for us to freeze — which is the part most creators have been burned by somewhere else.
AccountsDo I need an account, and why Google?
You sign in with Google so your standing follows you instead of resetting every time you use a different wallet. We store no password and ask Google for nothing beyond your name and email.
Worth being straight about the limit: an account makes it harder to dodge the per-creator cap by using many wallets, but it does not make it impossible, because Google accounts are easy to get. Anyone who tells you their sign-in stops fraud outright is selling something.
PlatformsWhich platforms can I post on?
YouTube today. Instagram, Facebook and TikTok need approvals we do not have yet, and we would rather turn a link away than promise a check we cannot actually do.
Agencies
One campaign per client, and nothing pools across them.
If you run campaigns for several brands, each is a separate campaign with its own budget, its own wallet and its own frozen terms. Nothing pools across clients, so one brand's spend can never reach another's creators, and each budget is verifiable on-chain independently.
The same API the app uses is public and documented, so a campaign can be opened, funded and monitored programmatically rather than through this page. Read the API contract →
Contact
A small number of people reading their own email.
hello@merlinclips.com
Campaigns, partnerships, and anything that is not urgent.
support@merlinclips.com
A payout you think is wrong, or a clip refused for a reason that does not fit. Quote the submission id and we can tell you exactly which check declined it, and when.
security@merlinclips.com
If you have found a way to move money that should not have moved, this is the address. We would much rather hear it from you than read about it.
Security reports are read first · quote a submission id and we can name the check
What this is not
Named rather than left for you to discover.
- Not a bot detector. We are not claiming to be better at spotting fake views than the people selling them are at hiding them. We changed what you pay for instead.
- Not instant, on purpose. The wait is the point. If you want paying the second you post, we are the wrong platform.
Early, and honest about it: settlement is proven on testnet and you would be among the first campaigns. See exactly how it is tested →