Creator agreement

This agreement is between you and Insidar Insights Limited, which operates ViewGigs. You are an independent contractor. You are not an employee, and nothing here creates employment, partnership, or agency.

You decide when you work, whether to take any job, and how to make your videos. Nobody here directs your hours.

Every job states its rate, its caps, when views are counted, and when payouts run — before you join it. Those terms are frozen when the job is published and cannot be changed afterwards.

You choose which jobs to take. Taking one does not commit you to any other.

You post from your own account, and the account stays yours. We never ask for your password and we cannot post, edit, or delete anything on your behalf.

Your video must be original work you made for the job. It must follow the job's brief, and it must include any disclosure the job requires — including advertising disclosure required by Nigerian advertising rules.

On most jobs you post first. You publish to your own account and send us the link, we begin counting views, and a person then checks the post against the job's checklist.

That check decides whether the post is PAID. It does not decide whether it stays up. The post is yours, we do not ask you to remove it, and nothing about your account changes because of it.

Some jobs are checked before you post, and they say so before you join. Jobs in regulated categories — financial services and gambling — are always checked first, because advertising rules apply to them and a mistake there cannot be undone by either of us.

• If a post meets the brief, it is paid for its verified views at the job's rate.
• If it does not, it earns nothing, and you may send another within your limit for that job.
• A first miss on a job does not count against your approval rate, so it does not affect your tier.
• Where the only problem is a missing disclosure, we ask you to add it — by a pinned comment or the platform's own paid-partnership setting — rather than treating the post as failed. Adding it makes the post payable.
• Because a caption cannot be edited after posting on most platforms, read the brief before you publish rather than after.

You are paid for views from real people who chose to watch. This is the core of the arrangement, and the rest of this section exists because it is the part most often tested.

If you are unsure whether something is allowed, ask before you do it rather than after.

• You may not use bots, automation, click farms, view-exchange schemes, paid-view services, or any tool or service that generates views, likes, comments, shares or followers other than by people genuinely choosing to watch.
• You may not ask, pay, or incentivise anyone to view or engage with your post for the purpose of increasing its numbers rather than because they wanted to watch it.
• You may not take part in any group, network, or arrangement whose purpose is to inflate engagement between its members.
• Ordinary promotion is fine. Sharing your video, posting it to your own audience, or asking friends to watch something you think they will like is not what this section is about.

We check that views are real, and we tell you how so that nothing here is a surprise.

We look at the view count on the post itself. We also look at how the other numbers on the post relate to it — likes, comments and shares against views — because bought views arrive without the engagement that real viewers leave behind. A post with very high views and almost no likes is the clearest signal there is, and it is one we act on.

We may also look at how quickly views arrive, the age and history of the account posting, and whether the same footage appears across multiple accounts.

None of these are proof on their own. They decide whether a person looks at your post, not whether you are paid.

We may hold a payment while we check something. We may do this where the signals in section 6 suggest views were not genuine, where there is an inconsistency in how views arrived, or where anything else about a post needs looking at.

A hold is not a deduction. The money stays yours and stays on your balance while the check happens, and it is paid in a later run if the check clears.

We will tell you that a payment is held, and you can ask us to look again. A decision that turns out to be wrong is corrected in your favour.

We may stop working with you if you break section 5, or if you repeatedly submit work that is not yours.

Money you have already earned on genuine views remains yours and is paid out. We do not use ending the arrangement as a way to avoid paying for work already done.

Where views were not genuine, we may reverse the amount that was credited for them. This applies to the affected views, not to your whole balance.

You may stop at any time, for any reason, without notice. Anything you have earned is still paid.

You are paid per 1,000 verified views at the rate shown on the job. Views are counted after the verification window stated on that job.

You ask to be paid; money is never moved without you requesting it. Payouts go to the bank account on your profile, and the name on that account must match your name. Payments are made by Insidar Insights Limited, so that is the name that may appear on your bank statement.

Balances under the payout floor are held until they clear it. Held money never expires and is never lost.

Withholding tax is deducted where it applies and remitted to the tax authority in your name, not ours. What that means for your own tax position depends on your circumstances and is yours to determine.

You keep ownership of what you make. You grant the buyer and the platform a licence to use the video in connection with the campaign it was made for, on the terms stated on that job.

The usage rights for each job are shown on the job before you join it.

We hold your name, phone number, bank details and the posts you submit, for as long as the law requires us to keep financial records.

We do not sell your information. We share it only where we must — with the payment provider that sends your money, and with the tax authority.

If these terms change, we ask you to accept the new version before you take another job. The terms of a job you have already joined do not change once it is published.