# How I Made $16,705.83 On Whop (as a low iq 21 year old) Channel: Matt The Method Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuXxqcUDgdU Duration: 8 min Language: English Words: 1584 Transcript page: https://viewrankai.com/tools/youtube-transcript/VuXxqcUDgdU --- [0:00] Since last year, I made over $16,000 on Vop. More than 12,000 of that came directly from clipping videos. Not from selling a course, not from running an agency, not from having a huge audience, just from clipping videos. And even recently, I got paid around $1,000 from a single video I submitted. So, when I tell you that most people are approaching clipping completely wrong, I'm speaking from experience. Because one of the biggest mistakes I made when I started out was thinking that clipping was an editing business, and it's really not. The people making the most money [0:29] aren't necessarily the best editors. They're choosing better campaigns, creating better clips, and posting more content. So, if I had to start from zero, here's exactly what I would do. First, let's quickly talk about how Vop actually works. Because a lot of people watching this probably have no idea. The concept is pretty simple. Creators and brands launch campaigns, clippers join those campaigns, create short-form content, and post it to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms. Then they get paid based on performance. And by performance, I mean views. The rest of the stats, including likes and comments, don't matter at all. And honestly, that's why I like clipping so [1:03] much. You don't need your own audience, you don't need your own product, you don't need to spend years building a personal brand. You can literally start immediately. The problem is that most people choose terrible campaigns. After doing more than 25 campaigns myself, I've noticed the same pattern over and over again. The people who fail always blame the algorithm, and the people who succeed are just picking better campaigns. Personally, I almost always prefer lifestyle creators. People love watching transformations, success stories, failures, money, business, fitness, and anything that creates emotion. That's exactly what gets attention. When I'm looking at [1:36] campaigns, I ask myself a few questions. Is the creator actually interesting? Can they speak well? Do they already have content that's performing well? And would I personally stop scrolling and watch this? Because if the source content is boring, your clips are going to struggle, no matter how good your editing is. I also look for decent budgets. Personally, I like seeing 10 to [1:55] 20,000 dollar budgets when possible. Although smaller campaigns can still be great if the content is strong enough. Next I look at the RPMs. Usually somewhere around 1 to 3 dollars is pretty solid. And finally, I look at the moderators. A lot of beginners completely ignore this, but trust me, good moderators matter. Some campaigns are running incredibly well, but others change rules every week, randomly ban people, or make getting paid way harder than it needs to be. So always spend a few minutes checking the campaign before investing hours into making content. Now let's talk about podcasts because people ask me about them all the time. Are [2:29] podcast campaigns worth it? Sometimes. Most podcasts are terrible for clipping. Two people talking about random topics for an hour isn't content. It's more of a background noise. But then you have podcasts like Caleb Hammer, for example. That's a completely different story. Every episode has conflict, money problems, bad decisions, emotional moments, tension, potential solutions, everything you want in a short form content. That's why creators like Caleb tend to perform significantly than random podcasts. Every episode already contains multiple stories, and those stories create clips. Now here's something most beginners don't understand. The real opportunity isn't finding one viral clip. It's creating [3:06] enough clips to find the viral ones. Most people create one or two clips per day, maybe three if they're feeling productive. But the people making serious money, they're thinking volume because clipping is a numbers game. Every upload is another opportunity. And unlike the lottery, you actually get better every time you play. One of my highest earning campaigns wasn't even the highest paying campaign. It was a lifestyle creator campaign. The reason I made so much money from it wasn't because I was some amazing editor. It was because I was creating 50 to 60 clips every single day. And honestly, [3:36] looking back, that was kind of insane. But it worked. It also took me 6 to 8 hours every single day finding moments, cutting clips, adding captions, exporting, uploading over and over again. And that's exactly what I would do differently today. If I started clipping again from zero, I would automate as much of the workflow as possible. Recently, I tested multiple tools to find the best option to present to you guys and the people in my Discord, and I came across a tool called Way in Video. And honestly, this is the type of thing I wish existed when I was creating dozens of clips every single day. The process is super simple. You [4:11] either upload a video file or paste a video link directly into the platform. I tested it with a long-form video that was 2 hours long, and within about a minute, it had already found multiple clip opportunities automatically. And it wasn't like it was random clips, either. They were actual moments that made sense and had that virality potential. From there, I could go through the generated clips, choose the ones I liked, add captions, edit the framing, adjust text, and even make changes in bulk. The caption presets are also surprisingly clean. A lot of AI tools generate captions that look terrible. These ones actually look great. The interface is [4:45] easy to understand, the editing process is straightforward, and they even have things like automatic overlays if you want to use them. Personally, I still like tweaking things myself, but it's nice having this option. The biggest advantage isn't that it magically makes money for you. No tool does that. The biggest advantage is speed, because speed creates volume, and volume creates opportunities. Instead of spending hours creating three clips, you can spend that time testing more creators, more hooks, more formats, and more ideas. And that's what actually moves the needle. If you want to try it yourself, just like I did, they're currently giving new users 200 free credits, so you can test the [5:20] workflow without spending anything. Now, let's talk about the actual reason most people don't make money. It's not because of the software, it's not because of the platform, and it's definitely not because clipping is dead. It's because their clips are bad. Bad hooks kill everything. You can have perfect captions, perfect editing, perfect quality, but none of it matters if the person watching will just swipe away from your video in an instant. One of the biggest mistakes I made when I started was focusing too much on editing and not enough on storytelling. What [5:47] matters is keeping people watching. Every viral clip follows the same structure. The hook, the story, and the payoff. If your first 2 seconds suck, nobody watches. If nobody watches, you ain't getting paid. It's that simple. The platform doesn't care how hard you worked, and the viewer doesn't care how long you edited. The only thing that matters is whether people keep watching and find it entertaining. So, if I was starting again tomorrow, here's exactly what I would do. I would find one strong lifestyle campaign. I would focus mainly on YouTube Shorts. I would run three or four channels for the same campaign. One upload per day on each channel. Then I [6:19] would take those same clips and repost them to TikTok and Instagram. That gives me more exposure across every major platform while still keeping the workload manageable. Personally, I think YouTube Shorts is still the easiest platform for beginners. People obsess over account warm-ups and all this technical stuff. And yes, Instagram usually needs some warming up. And TikTok often benefits from warming up as well. But YouTube is completely different. A week ago, I uploaded a first video to an empty YouTube channel, and it got over 400,000 views without any warm-up whatsoever. Just a good video. That's why I still tell beginners to focus on YouTube first. The truth is, [6:55] the $16,000 didn't come from some secret strategy. It came from choosing better campaigns, creating better clips, posting more content, and staying consistent long enough to get good. Most people watching this video won't do anything. They'll watch it. They'll think it's interesting. Maybe they will tell themselves that they will start tomorrow. And then a month from now, they'll be in the exact same position they are today. Meanwhile, somebody else is going to upload their first clip, then 10 more, and then 100 more. And eventually, they're going to start getting paid. Not because they're smarter, not because they're luckier, but because they actually started. When I made my first clip, I had no idea what [7:28] I was doing. Most of my early clips were terrible. But every bad clip taught me something. Eventually, those lessons turned into views. Then those views turned into payouts. And those payouts turned into opportunities I never would have had otherwise. So, don't focus on making the perfect clip. Don't focus on having the perfect strategy. Focus on starting because the people making money [7:46] with clipping today are not special. They're just the people who kept going long enough to figure it out. And who knows, maybe a few months from now you'll be the one making a video just like this one. --- About this transcript Read from YouTube's own caption track and laid out by ViewRank AI (https://viewrankai.com). ViewRank AI finds the videos already beating a creator's own average on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, transcribes them from the audio itself in more than 60 languages, and turns what worked into new ideas and scripts. 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