The eight, and who pays for each
UGC Ads for Brands
You are not selling a film. You are supplying a testing input.
- Payer
- Performance-marketing teams and creative agencies at consumer brands
- Rulebook
- Meta — Meta Advertising Standards
TikTok Shop & Affiliate Video
You are not paid for delivery. You are paid for attribution.
- Payer
- Marketplace sellers who publish an open or targeted commission offer
- Rulebook
- TikTok — TikTok Branded Content Policy
Faceless YouTube Channel
There is no client. The rulebook is the client.
- Payer
- The platform itself, paying a share of advertising revenue
- Rulebook
- YouTube — YouTube Partner Program overview & eligibility
On-Listing Shopping Videos
No feed, no hook, no followers. A shopper is already on the page.
- Payer
- The retail platform, crediting commission on purchases attributed to a video placed on its own product pages
- Rulebook
- Amazon — Amazon Influencer Program
Local Business Content Retainer
They are not buying content. They are buying not having to think about it.
- Payer
- Owner-operators of single-location businesses
- Rulebook
- Google — Google Business Profile photo and video guidelines
Crowdfunding Campaign Video
The one page where a beautiful render can get your client cancelled.
- Payer
- Pre-launch founders with a campaign date and no product revenue
- Rulebook
- Kickstarter — Kickstarter Rules
Podcast Clip Packaging
They have the material. They do not have the throughput.
- Payer
- Podcast producers and small networks with a publishing schedule
- Rulebook
- YouTube — YouTube channel monetization policies
Fan Memberships
A membership is a promise about next month.
- Payer
- Individual members of your own audience, paying a recurring amount directly
- Rulebook
- Patreon — Patreon Community Guidelines
What earns a page here
A method has to name all three of these, and a build-time check enforces it. Two pages may not share a payer, a deliverable, or a rulebook — if they do, they are the same method described twice.
A distinct payer class
Not a persona and not an industry. The counterparty that actually releases the money, and the reason it releases it.
A distinct deliverable, traceable to a real recipe
Every page anchors on a row in Versely’s workflow library, so the scene count, video model and credit cost shown are read from real data rather than described.
A first-party rulebook
The paying platform’s own policy page. No rulebook, no page — several otherwise-plausible methods were cut on exactly this test.
Frequently asked questions
Why are there no earnings figures anywhere on these pages?+
Because there is no honest way to publish what a stranger will be paid. Income depends on the market, the client, the category and the person, and a number printed here would be a guess dressed as guidance. Each page instead answers the parts that are knowable: who the payer is, what they want, what you hand over, what it costs in credits, and the platform rule that decides whether the income model works at all.
How were these eight chosen?+
By a rule applied to every candidate: it earns a page only if it names a distinct payer class, a distinct deliverable traceable to a real Versely workflow recipe, and a first-party rulebook published by the platform that pays. Several popular candidates failed on the rulebook test and were cut rather than padded out.
How is this different from the industry pages?+
The industry pages answer 'who are you' — how a restaurant or a law firm should use video. These answer 'who pays you'. The same person can sell into several of these income models at once, and the same income model works across many industries.
Do I need an audience for any of these?+
Four are supply relationships where you invoice a client and your follower count is not part of what they are buying. Two are commission models that depend on placement and attribution rather than reach. One is a revenue share gated on thresholds the platform publishes. One requires an existing audience by definition. Each page states which it is in the payer section, because it is usually the first thing worth knowing.
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