Nobody should have to trust us.
Getting paid should not depend on goodwill, and neither should knowing the views were real. Here is the machinery on both sides, including where it falls short.
For creators
The money exists first
A brand funds the agreed flat fee into escrow before you start filming, so that half is never a promise. View-based pay is charged when the video settles; while a brand has settled work it has neither paid nor disputed, it cannot book anyone new.
Terms cannot move
Rate, deliverables and deadline snapshot at hire. A brand cannot revise them down once they have seen your video.
Silence still pays
A brand has seven days to review. If they do not respond, the work counts as accepted and releases.
Numbers beat screenshots
Performance pay releases against view data collected daily from the live post, not against a screenshot either side uploaded.
The fee is funded before you film
Your flat fee is paid by the brand into escrow before you film, and released when the work is approved — or automatically if they let the seven-day review window run out. It is not a promise that we pay in the brand's place: everydayugc does not advance its own money on a booking. View-based pay is not held in advance at all, so if the charge to the brand fails it stays owed by them rather than by us. You are told when that happens rather than left watching a payment that says it is ready, and while they have settled work they have neither paid nor disputed they cannot book anyone new.
- A funded flat fee is only withheld if the post comes down or the same video was delivered twice — the brand declines it in writing, and you get to answer.
- Contest a refusal and it resolves within 30 days. Other holds carry a stated reason and a person, not a clock.
- A fraud signal is disclosed to both sides and holds nothing on its own — only a person can withhold a payment, and only with a stated reason.
Creators pay nothing to use everydayugc — no subscription and no commission out of your rate. Whop’s own withdrawal fee applies when you cash out, and we add nothing to it.
For brands
You see the fraud check before you pay
Every tracked video is checked for purchased engagement, and the finding is on the screen where you release the money — in plain words, next to the number. What you pay on is yours to decide.
The record is append-only
View counts are stored as a timestamped daily series that is never overwritten, so what you paid for stays auditable months later.
Creators do not disappear
Contracts carry deadlines and milestones. If a creator goes quiet you are notified rather than finding out at the deadline, and you can replace them without restarting the job.
Track record is visible
Completion history and response times show on creator profiles before you hire, not after.
Where this is weaker
The strongest bought-view signal works by watching how a video accumulates views across days, so it needs more than a single reading before it can say anything confident. Early on we fall back to a check on engagement rates, which catches obvious purchases and misses subtle ones. So a fraud result on a brand-new post is an early indicator rather than a verdict, and it firms up over the following days.
Every flagged video is re-checked as later readings arrive, and the sentence both sides read is the current one rather than the first one. That is also why the check advises rather than decides: a signal that firms up over days is not a thing to settle a payment on the night it first appears.
Moderation
Brands
A brand is checked before its first listing goes live, and a listing that asks for something illegal, unsafe or undisclosed is rejected rather than edited.
Messages
Chat is scanned for contact details being passed around, because moving a deal off-platform is how creators end up unpaid. Automated flags, reviewed by a person before anything is acted on.
Your data
We collect public performance data on videos submitted to a job, and stop collecting once the job is closed. We do not sell it.
Reporting something
A brand that will not pay, a creator who vanished, a listing that should not be up, or anything that feels wrong. Reports reach a person, and you get told the outcome.