YouTube Shorts UGC jobs, paid per verified view
Quick answer. You film an original Short featuring a brand's product and publish it on your own channel. Views are read from the platform through its own API and you are paid per thousand verified views. There is no subscriber threshold, no platform commission, and withdrawals start at $25.
What performs here
Searchable, not just scrollable
Shorts surface in search as well as the feed. A title that answers a real question keeps earning months later.
Longer tolerance
Shorts viewers sit through a little more setup than TikTok viewers. You can explain a step rather than only showing it.
Built for the loop
A Short that ends where it began is watched twice, and the second watch counts.
What a brief asks for
A Shorts brief names the product moment, what must not be claimed, and the paid promotion disclosure. Because Shorts keep being served long after posting, briefs here often ask for content that will not date.
Tick paid promotion in the video details when you upload. YouTube shows a disclosure to viewers, and omitting it puts the video at risk of removal.
What trips people up here
The rejections we see most often on this platform, and they are all avoidable before you post.
Forgetting the disclosure checkbox
It lives in the upload details, not in the description. Writing \u201cpaid promotion\u201d in the text does not replace ticking the box.
A title nobody searches
Shorts surface in search. A title that describes the video rather than the question it answers gives up most of its long tail.
Editing in a vertical crop of a horizontal shoot
Shorts filmed horizontally and cropped later lose the framing. Shoot vertically from the start.
How your views are verified
Prove the channel is yours with a one-time code in the channel description, then remove it. Each Short is tracked by its own link, so it counts from the moment it goes live.
Nobody types a view count into this platform. Numbers come from the platform that served the video, and posts whose metrics do not behave like real reach are held out of payout with the reason attached.
Getting paid
Views build while the campaign runs. When it ends your video is reviewed against the brief, and the approved payout lands in your balance. The platform commission is zero, so nothing is taken out of the campaign budget on the way, and you can withdraw once your balance reaches $25.
Get notified when new UGC campaigns open
One email when a campaign that fits UGC creators goes live. No other mail, and you can unsubscribe from any of them.
Questions UGC creators ask
Do I need to be in the YouTube Partner Programme?
No. That programme is how YouTube pays creators from ad revenue. This is a brand campaign and has nothing to do with it; there is no subscriber threshold.
Can I use an existing channel?
Yes, as long as you can verify it and publish Shorts from it.
Are views counted for as long as the Short runs?
Counts are read while the campaign is running. Views that arrive after the campaign ends are not billed to the brand and are not paid.
Does a Short have to be new?
Yes. Campaigns pay for a video made for the brief, not for one that already exists.
How do payouts work?
Approved payouts land in your balance after review, and you can withdraw from $25.
More for UGC creators
Start at the UGC hub for how campaigns, briefs and payouts work end to end. Other pages in this set: TikTok · Instagram.
Guides: UGC Hook Formulas: 12 Openings That Work · What Is a UGC Creator? (2026 Guide)
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