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Start a Clipping Agency

What you'll be able to do
  • Explain how a clipping agency connects clients, clippers and platforms.
  • Understand the common pricing models (retainer, view budget) and do the basic money math.
  • Run a campaign: brief, clipper network, review, verified views and payouts.
  • Keep clips within YouTube and Instagram originality rules.
  • Handle the legal side: content rights, ad disclosure, contractor reporting and sales tax (with Canada as the example: #ad, T4A and GST/HST).
  • Win your first clients with spec clips and an honest proposal.

This course is about running the business side. If you want to learn how to be a clipper first, take course 4.1 (Clipping Masterclass). Numbers in this course are reported examples, not promises. Results vary widely. For tax and legal questions, consult a licensed accountant or lawyer.

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01

What a clipping agency is

In simple words

A big creator makes a long video, like a whole cake. A clipping agency gets lots of helpers to cut it into small slices and hand them out everywhere, so more people get a taste and come looking for the whole cake.

Key facts
  • A clipping agency is a middleman with three parts:
SideRole
ClientCreator, streamer, brand, film or music label that pays to get its long videos turned into short clips
ClippersFreelancers who cut clips and post them on their own accounts, usually paid per view
AgencyRecruits clippers, writes the brief, checks clips and views, pays out, reports to the client
  • Public example, Clipping: according to Bloomberg (October 2025), its founder Anthony Fujiwara was 23, the company had about $7.7 million in sales in 2025 so far, a network of about 23,300 clippers, and charged clients $2,500 to $10,000 a month, sometimes more.
  • Public example, Vyro: a clipping platform launched by MrBeast, reported by Tubefilter on October 14, 2025. It pays users whose clips meet creator and brand briefs; in one campaign clippers earned $3 per 1,000 views.
  • These companies are examples only and are not affiliated with The Future Market.
Step by step
  1. Write down the three sides of a clipping agency: client, clippers, agency in the middle.
  2. Pick a niche you know, such as a sport, podcasts or coaches.
  3. Search YouTube or Instagram for creators in that niche who post long videos (podcasts, streams, coaching).
  4. For each of 3 creators, write down: do they already post clips? Who posts them? Are the clips good?
  5. Mark the creators who post long videos but have weak or no clips. These are your possible clients.
  6. Check: you have a list of 3 creators with a short note on each, and you can say which side of the business you would be.
LESSON 01What a clipping agency is
LESSON 01 / ANIMATED LESSON / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00
Read the video script
[Host] "Ever notice the same creator's clips all over your feed, posted by different accounts? That's often a clipping campaign."
[Screen: diagram Client → Agency → Clippers → Platforms] "The client pays. The agency organizes. Clippers cut and post."
[Text on screen: Clipping: ~23,300 clippers, $2.5k–$10k/month] "Bloomberg reported one agency, Clipping, had about 23,300 clippers and charged $2,500 to $10,000 a month."
[Text on screen: Vyro, launched Oct 2025] "Even MrBeast launched a clipping platform, Vyro, in 2025."
[Host] "In this course, you learn to be the organizer in the middle."
Try it now

Find 3 creators in a niche you know who post long videos (podcasts, streams, coaching, sports). For each, note: do they already have clips? Who posts them? Are the clips good?

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For a grown-up: Claude is for adults (18+). Copy this, paste it into Claude, and use the answer to explain the lesson to your child.

I'm learning "Start a Clipping Agency" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "What a clipping agency is".

What the lesson teaches:
- A clipping agency is a middleman with three parts:
- Side - Role
- Client - Creator, streamer, brand, film or music label that pays to get its long videos turned into short clips
- Clippers - Freelancers who cut clips and post them on their own accounts, usually paid per view
- Agency - Recruits clippers, writes the brief, checks clips and views, pays out, reports to the client
- Public example, Clipping: according to Bloomberg (October 2025), its founder Anthony Fujiwara was 23, the company had about $7.7 million in sales in 2025 so far, a network of about 23,300 clippers, and charged clients $2,500 to $10,000 a month, sometimes more.
- Public example, Vyro: a clipping platform launched by MrBeast, reported by Tubefilter on October 14, 2025. It pays users whose clips meet creator and brand briefs; in one campaign clippers earned $3 per 1,000 views.

The exercise I'm working on:
Find 3 creators in a niche you know who post long videos (podcasts, streams, coaching, sports). For each, note: do they already have clips? Who posts them? Are the clips good?

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "What a clipping agency is" from the course "Start a Clipping Agency".

Here's what the lesson says:
A big creator makes a long video, like a whole cake. A clipping agency gets lots of helpers to cut it into small slices and hand them out everywhere, so more people get a taste and come looking for the whole cake.

The activity:
Find 3 creators in a niche you know who post long videos (podcasts, streams, coaching, sports). For each, note: do they already have clips? Who posts them? Are the clips good?

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
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02

How the money works

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03

Running a campaign

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04

Quality and platform rules

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05

Legal, trust and money admin (with Canadian examples)

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06

Getting your first clients

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Final project

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Quiz

  1. What are the three sides of a clipping agency?

  2. According to Bloomberg, what monthly range did Clipping charge clients?

  3. What did MrBeast's team pay per 100,000 views in one campaign run through Clipping?

  4. What two money "pots" do agencies commonly use?

  5. A $2,000 view budget at $1 per 1,000 views pays for how many views?

  6. Does permission from the creator exempt a clip from YouTube's reused content policy?

  7. What did YouTube rename its "repetitious content" policy to on July 15, 2025?

  8. Which disclosure is a clear way to mark a paid promotion?

  9. Why check your country's tax rules for paying clippers?

  10. What should you promise a new client: views or work?

EX

Final exam

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CE

Certificate

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