Pay your creators from the revenue their videos actually make.

Invite creators, brief them in app, approve the winners, and push them straight to Meta. Creators earn a cut of what their videos make.

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Overview of your creator performance and ad metrics.
Total Creators
18
Active AdsLive
41
Total Spend Tracked
A$84,120
Total Revenue Generated
A$269,186
Total Royalties
A$9,417
Awaiting review
9 pending · 4 approved
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Pending
00:31
Summer Bundle Hook
Priya Raman
Approve
Reject
Approved
00:22
Faster Than Coffee
Tomas Berg
Live on Meta
Approved
00:41
Breakfast Audit
Simone Achebe
Paused
Pending
00:28
Gym Bag Staple
Dana Whitlock
Approve
Reject

One loop, from brief
to paid out.

Everything a UGC program needs already lives in one workspace, so nobody is chasing a spreadsheet, a WhatsApp thread or a Dropbox link.

  1. 01
    Invite

    Send a link. Creators land in your workspace with terms already attached.

  2. 02
    Brief

    Attach the brief, send product, keep every chat in the same thread.

  3. 03
    Approve

    Review uploads side by side, request revisions, approve the keepers.

  4. 04
    Run

    Push straight into your Meta ad account, named and grouped for you.

  5. 05
    Pay

    Royalties accrue against real spend. One click pays every creator.

Review the work,
then ship it to Meta.

Approve a batch of videos and upload them into your own ad account without leaving the tab. Campaign, ad set, naming convention and creator credit all come along.

  • Bulk upload approved creatives, all into one adset or one each
  • Ad set templates so budgets and audiences stay consistent
  • Live status on every ad, pulled back from Meta
Upload 4 creatives to Meta
paused drafts
Each one becomes a paused draft ad, so nothing delivers until you publish it.
Ad Account
Acme AUact_1049302847112
Where should they go?
All into one adset
4 ads in a single adset. Best for creative testing.
One adset each
Creates 4 copies of the source adset.
Campaign
UGC Prospecting AU
Adset
Broad 18-44 · A$250/day
Morning Routine Hook
Priya Raman · 00:34
Faster Than Coffee
Tomas Berg · 00:22
Gym Bag Staple
Dana Whitlock · 00:28
This will create in Meta:
4 paused ads · 0 new adsets, all into “Broad 18-44” · in campaign “UGC Prospecting AU”
Cancel
Upload 4
4 paused drafts created in Broad 18-44
Earnings
Your royalties from Acme
Available to Cash Out
$1,248.60
Pending Settlement
$310.42
Funds clearing (up to 2 days)
Lifetime Earned
$7,904.18
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You earn 15% of revenue generated by your content, capped at $300 per content piece. Earnings become available after a 14 day hold period.
Video
Impressions
CTR
Earned
Morning Routine Hook
412,806
2.41%
$300.00
Faster Than Coffee
288,140
1.98%
$214.90
Gym Bag Staple
96,204
1.62%
$88.30

Creators can see
what each video
pays them.

No more asking how the ad went. Creators get impressions, clicks, CTR and earnings per video, plus the terms you set for them in plain language.

  • Per creator terms, for example 15% of royalties capped at $300
  • Cash out to a connected Stripe account when the hold clears
  • Creators never see your ad account, only their own numbers

The admin part is
mostly gone.

Product requests, shipping, terms and payouts used to be four tools and a spreadsheet. Now they are four screens in the same place.

Approve a request,
Shopify ships it.

A creator asks for the new flavour. One click pushes a real order to your Shopify store and the tracking shows up in their app.

Simone Achebe
requested Vanilla Bean 6 pack
Approve
Vanilla Bean 6 pack
Qty 1 #1042
Shipped· Australia Post
AU93447122803
Track package

Pay the whole roster
in one click.

Royalties accrue against real Meta spend. When you are ready, start a pay run and every creator gets their share at once.

Pending Approval
$3,842.15
12 requests
Processing
$640.00
2 payouts
Total Paid Out
$61,208.44
All time
Start pay run

What brands and
creators tell us.

We went from six ads a month to thirty without hiring anyone.
Head of Growth
DTC supplements
I can finally see which video is paying me, so I just make more of that one.
UGC creator
14 videos live
The Shopify approval flow replaced a gifting spreadsheet and two inboxes.
Ecommerce Manager
Apparel brand

Free while we are
in beta.

Every workspace has the whole product today. No monthly fee while we are in beta, just a 5% cut of the royalties you pay out.

Beta accessopen to everyone
$0/ month
5% cut on royalties
  • Unlimited creators, videos and briefs
  • Meta connect, bulk ad upload and ad set templates
  • Per creator royalty terms, caps and hold periods
  • Product requests with real Shopify orders and tracking
  • One click pay runs and Stripe payouts
Start free

Running several brands, or need terms that do not fit the standard setup? Book a call.

Questions we
get a lot.

Do I need my own Meta ad account?+

Yes. Hotline connects to your Meta Business account and uploads into your campaigns, so spend, pixel and audiences stay yours. Nothing runs through us.

How are royalties calculated?+

From the spend and revenue Meta attributes to each video, against the terms you set for that creator. A term looks like 15% of revenue, capped at $300 per video, with a 14 day hold.

How much do UGC creators make on Hotline?+

There is no flat rate. Each creator earns against the terms you set for them, so a video that runs and sells pays more than one that does not. You set the percentage, the cap per video and the hold period, and the creator sees all three in plain language before they shoot.

Can creators see my ad account?+

No. Creators only see their own videos, their own stats and their own earnings. Spend, ROAS across the account and other creators stay on the brand side.

Do product requests need Shopify?+

You can approve requests without it. Connecting Shopify turns an approval into a real order with tracking that the creator follows inside the app.

Can one person be a brand and a creator?+

Yes. Roles are resolved per workspace, so the same login can own one workspace and create in another without switching accounts.

How is this different from AI generated UGC?+

Hotline does not generate video. Real people make it, and the royalty attaches to the person who made it. You can still run AI creative in the same ad account if you want to. Hotline only tracks and pays out on the videos its own creators uploaded.

How do creators get paid?+

Through Stripe, to their own connected account. They can cash out once the hold period clears, or you can pay the whole roster at once with a pay run.

They create.
You keep running.

Connect Meta, invite your first creator and have an ad live this week. Free while we are in beta.

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