Terms of use

Klipeak, published by Benjamin Savon, connects video game studios with content creators. The studio funds a campaign, the creator posts clips on their own networks, and the platform measures the audience of those clips to work out the payment due.

Studio

Publisher or developer who creates a campaign and funds it.

Creator

Person who posts a clip on their own social account and submits it to a campaign.

Campaign

Closed budget envelope, with a rate per 1,000 views, start and end dates, and compliance rules.

Clip

Video posted by a creator on a third-party platform and attached to a campaign by its URL.

Eligible view

View gained during the campaign window, on an approved clip, and not set aside by anomaly detection.

Klipeak is a technical intermediary. We are neither the creator's employer, nor the producer of the clip, nor a party to the content posted. The creator stays free as to format, tone and timing of their post, within the campaign's rules.

We guarantee neither a volume of views, nor a level of earnings, nor the continued presence of open campaigns.

An account is created through a third-party identity provider. You are responsible for keeping access to that provider confidential and for the actions taken from your Klipeak account.

An account must correspond to a real person. Multiple accounts intended to get around a campaign cap are prohibited.

Taking part in campaigns is for adults only. You declare your date of birth at sign-up; neither submitting a clip nor paying out earnings is possible without that declaration. Paying creators who are minors falls under a specific regime — administrative authorisation, escrow of the sums — that Klipeak does not handle.

• Only submit clips posted on a social account you own and have verified on Klipeak.
• Hold the rights to the content you post, and respect the rules of the game concerned regarding broadcasting.
• Respect the terms of use of the platform you post on, as well as the legal transparency obligations on paid content — the clip must be identified as such where regulation requires it.
• Respect the campaign's rules: allowed platforms, minimum length, required hashtags and mention.
• Buy no views and use no artificial means of inflating the audience.
• Do not remove, make private or substantially alter a clip already paid for during the campaign.

• Fund the campaign budget before it goes live, plus Klipeak's commission (25% of the budget). The budget is a closed envelope: no commitment can exceed it.
• Write a clear brief and verifiable rules, and not retroactively change the rate or the caps of a running campaign to the detriment of clips already submitted. A campaign runs for at least 14 days.
• Moderate each submitted clip within 7 days and give a reason for any rejection. After that deadline the clip is deemed accepted and its author's payment runs as normal.
• Hold the rights needed over the parts of the game creators are invited to broadcast.

A clip may only be rejected on the grounds that it fails the campaign's announced rules or that the content is unlawful. The creator may dispute it with Klipeak, which decides in light of the published brief; the studio is neither judge nor party over work already delivered.

The proportion of clips a studio approves is shown on the public pages of its campaigns.

Audience counters are read several times a day from the platforms' official interfaces. Each reading is timestamped and kept: it is that history which governs in the event of a dispute.

• Only views gained between the start and the end of the campaign are retained, on a clip previously approved by the studio.
• A campaign may set a minimum view threshold below which a clip earns nothing.
• A sudden rise unrelated to the clip's history is set aside from the calculation and recorded with its reason. You can ask for it to be re-examined.
• Counting depends on what the platform concerned exposes. As long as a platform does not make views available to us, clips posted there cannot be paid per view; the interface says so before you post.
• A gap with the counter shown publicly on the platform may exist: those values are themselves rounded and recalculated after filtering out fraudulent views.

A clip's earnings equal the number of eligible views multiplied by the campaign's rate per 1,000 views, within the per-clip and per-creator caps, and within the remaining budget.

As the budget is a closed envelope, clips are served in the order they were submitted — how fast the studio moderates costs nobody their place. Once the budget is used up, further views earn nothing, even if the clip keeps growing.

A payout can be requested as soon as your balance reaches 10 €, with a clip-by-clip breakdown. It is made to the payout account you open with our provider Stripe, which collects your identity and bank details: Klipeak never has knowledge of them. Until that account is verified by Stripe, the payout cannot be executed; your claim is unaffected.

Amounts are paid exclusive of applicable taxes. You remain solely responsible for your tax and social security filings and for your status under the rules of your country of residence; the obligations that fall on the platform for its part, and the information it must give you, are set out in section 9.

When its campaign goes live, the studio pays the budget intended for creators plus Klipeak's commission, set at 25% of the budget. The commission is added to the budget and not deducted from it: the budget announced to creators goes to them in full.

The commission is invoiced free of tax — TVA non applicable, article 293 B du CGI. The amount charged to the studio is therefore the net amount payable, with no tax to add or reclaim.

By accepting these terms, the creator gives Klipeak a mandate to collect, in their name and on their behalf, the sums studios intend for them. Klipeak receives them as a collection agent and not on its own behalf: they do not belong to it, do not form its turnover and are owed by it until paid over. Only the commission is received by Klipeak in its own name and constitutes its remuneration.

The mandate is given free of charge, the commission being borne by the studio. It covers only the collection of earnings acquired under campaigns and ends when the account is closed, subject to payment of any sums still due.

Funds pass through our payment services provider Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd., a licensed institution. Klipeak does not hold funds on its own behalf and does not carry out payment services activity.

Klipeak keeps, campaign by campaign, a record of the sums collected as budget and of those received as commission. Every creator may obtain a statement of the sums collected on their behalf and of those paid over to them.

By connecting studios with paid creators, Klipeak is a platform operator within the meaning of article 1649 ter A of the French tax code. That status carries obligations that fall on the platform itself, distinct from those that fall on you.

• We collect your tax identification data before any first payout: first and last name, postal address, date of birth, country of tax residence and taxpayer identification number (TIN). This information is collected and verified by our provider Stripe when you open your payout account.
• We declare it each year to the French tax authority, before 31 janvier for the previous year, with the total amount paid to you and the number of transactions concerned. Where you live in another EU country, these details are forwarded to its authority.
• We send you the same summary in January, showing the gross amount received over the year. You use it to complete your own return and it must match what the authority receives.

This data serves only that obligation: it is never shared with studios. Its processing is described in our privacy policy.

Until this information has been given to us, the law requires us to suspend your payouts. Your claim is unaffected: earnings remain acquired and are owed to you as soon as your payout account is complete.

The sums you receive are taxable income. Depending on their amount and regularity, they may require you to register an activity and pay social contributions. Klipeak cannot advise you on your particular situation, but points you to the official information: impots.gouv.fr for tax, and urssaf.fr for social contributions.

In the event of bought views, submission of someone else's clip, a fake account or circumvention of caps, we may suspend counting, cancel earnings not yet paid, refuse a payout in progress and close the account concerned.

These measures are notified to you with their reason. You can dispute them by writing to contact@klipeak.com.

You keep ownership of your clips. By submitting a clip to a campaign, you allow the studio concerned and Klipeak to cite it and to show its title, thumbnail and link as part of following the campaign and presenting the service.

The Klipeak platform, its brand and its code remain the property of its publisher.

The service is provided without any guarantee of uninterrupted availability. A temporary outage of the service or of a third-party platform's interface may delay a reading, without losing views already recorded: counting resumes at the next reading.

We cannot be held liable for indirect damage, nor for decisions taken by a third-party platform towards you (removal of content, closure of an account, changes to its rules or its interfaces).

You may close your account at any time. Earnings already acquired and not in dispute remain owed to you and can be paid out once the threshold is reached.

We may terminate your access in the event of a serious breach of these terms, after notice and, where the nature of the breach allows, a formal demand that has gone unheeded.

These terms may be amended. Any substantial change is notified at least 15 days before it takes effect. Running campaigns remain governed by the version accepted when they launched.

These terms are governed by French law. In the event of a disagreement, we invite you to contact us first at contact@klipeak.com.

If you are a consumer and our answer does not satisfy you, you may refer the matter free of charge to the consumer ombudsman we come under:

Ombudsman

À COMPLÉTER — dénomination de l'organisme de médiation

Address

À COMPLÉTER — adresse postale du médiateur

Referring the matter to the ombudsman assumes you have written to us first and that no solution was found within a reasonable time. The competent courts are those designated by the protective rules applicable to your situation; failing agreement, the French courts have jurisdiction.

See also our privacy policy and our legal notice.