Terms of use

Klipeak 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 — 18 or over. You declare your date of birth at sign-up; neither submitting a clip nor paying out earnings is possible without that declaration. Paying a minor raises child labour and trust rules that vary by state and by country, and Klipeak does not handle them.

• 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 exclusive of tax. Klipeak charges no value added tax: it is a United States company with no establishment in the European Union, and the commission is a business-to-business service. A studio established in the EU or the UK accounts for the tax itself under the reverse charge, at its own rate, and recovers it under its own regime; the invoice says so. Where a United States state or any other jurisdiction makes a sales or use tax due on the commission, it is added and shown separately before payment.

By accepting these terms, the creator appoints Klipeak as its limited payment collection agent, for the sole purpose of receiving the sums studios intend for them. Klipeak receives those sums for the creator's account and not for its own: they are not its property, they are not its revenue, and it owes them to the creator until they are paid over. Payment by the studio to Klipeak discharges the studio, and the creator's claim then lies against Klipeak. Only the commission is received by Klipeak in its own name and constitutes its remuneration.

The appointment costs the creator nothing, the commission being borne by the studio. It covers only the collection of earnings acquired under campaigns, gives Klipeak no authority to act otherwise on the creator's behalf, and ends when the account is closed, subject to payment of any sums still due.

Funds pass through our payment services provider Stripe, Inc. and its affiliates, which are licensed money transmitters. Klipeak holds no funds on its own behalf, operates no payment account and carries on no money transmission business of its own.

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.

Klipeak pays creators, and United States tax law puts obligations on whoever makes a payment. They fall on the platform itself and are distinct from the ones that fall on you.

• We collect a tax form before any first payout. A Form W-9 if you are a US person — a citizen, a resident, or a US entity — giving your name, address and taxpayer identification number. A Form W-8BEN, or W-8BEN-E for a company, if you are not, giving your country of tax residence and claiming the benefit of a tax treaty where one applies. The form is collected and verified by our provider when you open your payout account.
• If you are a US person, we file a Form 1099-NEC for any year in which we paid you 600 dollars or more, and send you the same copy by January 31. The figure the authority receives and the figure you receive are the same figure.
• If you are not a US person and you produce your clips outside the United States, your earnings are foreign-source income: we file no Form 1099 and withhold no US tax, provided a valid W-8BEN is on file. A valid form is what makes the difference — without one, the law presumes a US payee and obliges us to withhold.
• In either case you receive a statement by January 31, showing the gross amount paid over the year and the clips it came from. It is what you use to complete your own return.
• Where you live in the European Union, a separate reporting obligation may fall on us under the EU rules on platform operators. Where it does, the same identification data goes to the authority concerned, and we tell you before the first filing.

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

Until a valid form has been given to us, the law requires us to suspend your payouts, and an incorrect or missing taxpayer identification number obliges us to apply backup withholding at the statutory rate. 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, and nothing is withheld from them for you. You are responsible for your own filings, for any estimated tax and self-employment contributions due, and for your status under the rules of your country of residence. Klipeak cannot advise you on your particular situation, but points you to the official information: the IRS self-employed tax center if you are a US person, Form W-8BEN if you are not, and your own national tax authority in every case.

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.

The service is provided as is and as available. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that counting will be free of error, that a third-party platform will keep exposing the figures we read, or that the service will suit a particular plan of yours.

Our liability is limited. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damage, nor for lost profits, lost audience or lost opportunity, nor for decisions a third-party platform takes towards you — removing content, closing an account, changing its rules or its interfaces. For everything else, our total liability is capped at the greater of the sums we paid or owe you over the twelve months before the claim, and 100 dollars.

What this does not limit. Earnings you have acquired are a debt we owe you, not damages: the cap above has no bearing on them. Nor does it apply to our own fraud, wilful misconduct or gross negligence, nor to any liability the law forbids us to exclude — some states and countries do not allow the exclusions above, and where yours does not, they simply do not apply to you.

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 the laws of the State of Florida and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to their conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Talk to us first. In the event of a disagreement, write to contact@klipeak.com setting out what happened and what you are asking for. We answer within 30 days, and most disputes about a count or a payment are settled from the reading history. This step is a condition of bringing a claim, and it suspends any time limit while it runs.

Failing agreement, the state and federal courts sitting in Orange County, Florida have jurisdiction, and both parties consent to it. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in a small claims court with jurisdiction over the other.

If you are a consumer in the European Union, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, nothing above deprives you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, nor of your right to bring proceedings before its courts. Those rules prevail over this section to the extent they conflict with it.

See also our privacy policy and our legal notice.