The API to run UGC campaigns

The infrastructure behind clipping or UGC programs: invite creators by link, read views straight from 7 platforms, flag fake ones and pay everyone you approve at once.

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Platform-verified views
Read-only connect
Pay on views, posts or ads

Why Zernio?

Pay for views you can check

Marketplaces and spreadsheets

Views someone typed in
Screenshots and pasted numbers are hard to check against the source.
Unusual views slip through
By hand, it's hard to tell organic views from inflated ones.
Payouts in a spreadsheet
Who is owed what lives in a sheet you rebuild every week.
A cut of every payout
Marketplaces charge a fee and keep the creators you found.

Creator campaigns on Zernio

Views from the platform's API
Creators connect read-only, so every number comes from TikTok, Instagram or YouTube itself.
An authenticity score on every post
From 0 to 100, with the reason behind it. You decide what gets paid.
Every payout tracked for you
See what each creator earned, what's due and what's paid.
Your creators, your rails
Creators keep 100% of what they earn. Pay them through Zernio or your own tool.

How It Works

From invite link to paid creator in three steps

$1 per 1,000 views

$1,000 budget · open link

ready

Set the deal

Pick platforms, a budget and how creators earn. Send each creator a link, or share one open link.

tiktok.com/@maya/video/7301…

Connected read-only. Zernio reads views only and never posts.

Creators connect and post

Creators connect their accounts read-only and paste the post they made. Zernio reads views only and never posts.

@maya · 48,210 views91 / 100

12 creators approved · $1,284.00paid

Approve and pay

See every post with its real views and an authenticity score. Approve the good ones and pay everyone in one go.

What you can build

Everything a creator program needs

48,210 viewsfrom TikTok

Day 12 of 30 · final read on day 30

Self-reported viewsnot counted

Real views only

Zernio fetches each post's views from the platform's own API for 30 days. Only platform-reported views count.

Creator and post

Verified views · score

@maya · pending review

48,210

91 / 100

Late spike, flat engagement, views far above followers.

An authenticity score on every post

0 to 100, with the reasons: late spikes, flat engagement, views far above followers.

Accruing

$212.40

Owed

$96.10

Payable

$48.21

Settled

$310.00

Payable after a 10-day hold.

A ledger with a 10-day hold

See what each creator has accrued, what is owed after approval, what is payable after a 10-day hold, and what is settled.

By hand

You pay, then mark it settled

Your own payout rails

External, for partners like Dub

Zernio treasury

4% on top, $0.50 minimum

Three ways to carry payouts

Pay by hand, use your own payout rails (external, for partners like Dub), or pay through Zernio's treasury, built on Stripe Connect.

Your brand, not ours

Creators join through a hosted page with your campaign name and campaign details.

Your window, your hold

Track each post for 1 to 365 days and hold earnings up to 90 days after approval.

A read-only connect

Creators connect their social account so Zernio can read views. It can never post for them.

Payout models

Pay creators for views, posts, ads or sales

Pick a model per campaign. Each has a budget cap, and nothing pays until you approve the post.

Per 1,000 views or engagements

$1per 1,000 verified views

Earnings grow with the post. Count views, or likes, comments, shares and saves.

Cap per clip
Minimum views to earn
Ad views excluded (YouTube, X)

Flat fee per post

$40per approved post

A set price for every post you approve, whatever it does after.

Limit on paid posts per creator

Pool split by views

$5,000pool, split by verified views

One pot, shared out by each creator's views when the campaign closes.

Minimum views to share the pool
Total payout fixed up front

Share of ad spend

10%of what you spend on their ad

Run approved posts as Meta or TikTok ads. Creators earn a share of the spend behind their post.

Creator's handle on TikTok Spark Ads
Or a % of sales from the ad
Or a fee per purchase or click

Use cases

One way to run creator programs, whatever you sell

Apps and SaaS

Turn a launch into a stream of creator videos. Pay per view with a cap per clip, so one viral post can't drain the budget.

@maya · launch democap reached

1,240,000 views

$500 of $500 cap

Campaign budget

$3,200 of $10,000

E-commerce

Pay a flat amount for every approved unboxing, try-on or review. Or pay per 1,000 likes, comments, shares and saves.

Unboxing

approved

$40.00

Try-on

approved

$40.00

Review

approved

$40.00

Media and entertainment

Put a song or trailer in front of millions through clippers. Track every clip for 30 days and pay per 1,000 views.

Trailer clips · 14 trackedtracking

3,412,900 views

Day 1

Day 21 of 30

SaaS and AI products

Pay creators for launch and tutorial videos. On YouTube and X, you can count organic views only, so views from ads don't earn.

@devdan · setup tutorialorganic only

Organic views · earn102,400

Views from ads · don't earn18,000

Integrate

Your agent can run the campaign

Creator campaigns are on our MCP server. Ask it to review submissions, approve the clean ones or preview what you owe.

› claude

Claude Code v2.1.19

Opus 4.5 · Claude Max

~/software

›

✓ registered · https://mcp.zernio.com/mcp

✓ signed in over OAuth · no key pasted

✓ call_tool · 38 pending review, 4 flagged

✓ 34 approved · flagged ones left for you

Build it yourself with 8 SDKs
or the REST API

Create campaigns, invite creators and pay them from Node, Python, Go, Ruby, Java, PHP, .NET, or Rust, or call the REST API directly.

Read the docs

import Zernio from '@zernio/node';
const zernio = new Zernio(); // reads ZERNIO_API_KEY
 
const { data } = await zernio.creatorcampaigns.createCreatorCampaign({
  body: {
    profileId: 'prof_2x9',
    name: 'Launch clips',
    platforms: ['tiktok', 'instagram', 'youtube'],
    settlement: 'treasury',
    economics: { type: 'cpm', ratePer1kCents: 100, budgetCents: 100000 },
  },
});