What 1,000 views is worth
The numbers, as a table
| Route | Per 1,000 views | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube Shorts (gaming) | $0.02–$0.08 | Shorts ad-pool share, gaming channels |
| TikTok Creator Rewards | $0.40–$1.00 | Per 1,000 qualified views, eligible videos only |
| Clipping campaigns | $0.50–$4.00 | Typical per-view campaign rates |
| YouTube long-form (gaming) | $2.00–$6.00 | Ad revenue, gaming videos over the Shorts length |
Typical ranges, not guarantees; rates vary by country, niche and campaign. Checked 23 September 2026. Sources: Fluxnote — Gaming Shorts RPM 2026, Elev8or — TikTok Creator Rewards RPM 2026, Posthype — Clipping pays up to $5 per 1,000 views, AIR Media-Tech — Shorts RPM vs long-form.
The same thousand views can pay a few cents or a few dollars depending on where the money comes from. For most clippers, per-view campaigns pay the most per view and ask the least of a new account.
1. Per-view clipping campaigns
A streamer, creator or brand funds a campaign on a marketplace or in their Discord and pays per 1,000 verified views of clips you post on your own accounts. Typical rates run $0.50 to $4 per 1,000. No follower count is needed — only views.
| Audience | None on the main marketplaces |
|---|---|
| Rights | The campaign is the permission to clip that footage |
| Catch | Clips can be rejected, budgets run out, and paid clips are ads that need disclosing |
The five biggest marketplaces, and every requirement they publish, are in the platform guide. Where to find campaigns for streamers rather than products is in finding streamer campaigns.
2. Running a streamer's official clip channel
Many streamers pay an editor to run their clips account, for a flat fee or a share of its revenue. It is the steadiest income of the four, and the one with the fewest platform problems: the clips are posted with the permission of the person who owns them.
| Audience | None — but you need a streamer who says yes |
|---|---|
| Rights | Written permission from the streamer |
| Catch | One streamer's schedule is your income |
3. TikTok Creator Rewards
TikTok pays $0.40 to $1.00 per 1,000 qualified views, but only on original videos longer than one minute — and a plain clip of someone else's stream is not original by TikTok's rules. The Creator Rewards guide has the full requirements and what counts as original.
| Audience | 10,000 followers and 100,000 views in 30 days |
|---|---|
| Rights | Original content, judged video by video |
| Catch | Five ineligible videos in 30 days can cost the account |
4. YouTube
Shorts pay very little for gaming — a few cents per 1,000 views — and from February 2027 only channels with 10 million Shorts views every 90 days earn from Shorts ads at all. Long-form compilations pay far more. The YouTube guide has the thresholds and the rules on reused content.
| Audience | 1,000 subscribers plus watch hours or Shorts views |
|---|---|
| Rights | Reused content must add significant value |
| Catch | A violation demonetizes the whole channel |
Where Highlightz fits
- It watches live channels for youAdd Twitch or Kick channels and Highlightz watches them while they are live — 1 on Free, 3 on Starter, 10 on Pro — so you are not sitting on six streams at once.
- It catches the moment while it is happeningClips are made during the stream and land in a review queue. In a per-view campaign the first good post usually gets the views, and budgets run out.
- Highlight clipsSome clips arrive marked Highlight, in purple — usually the higher-quality ones — so you know which to look at first.
- You keep the fileEvery clip is a video file you can download, then edit and post wherever the campaign counts views.
- Editing and scheduling are comingA Clip Editor and a Scheduler are on the way; today you download the file and post it yourself.
Figures change. Everything here was checked on 23 September 2026 and is linked to its source below. This is general information, not financial or legal advice.
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