How to make money by being a Video Tipper

Paris Cattan Posted On May 16, 2018

Imagine how nice it would be to get paid simply for watching videos online… oh wait, you actually can!

Video Tipping is the easy way to earn money for finding great videos online.

Here is a quick breakdown of everything you need to know:

What is Video Tipping?
Who can tip?
How do you tip?
What kind of videos should I tip?
How much can you make?

What is Video Tipping?

If you watch a lot of viral content and you are someone who can spot great, compelling and entertaining videos; Video Tipping may be for you. A Video Tipper is someone who can spot these videos from the original filmer; typically found on social media e.g. YouTube, Twitter, Instagram etc.

Who can tip?

Anyone can become a Video Tipper, whether you’re an existing member or new to Newsflare! (You need to have a PayPal account).

How do you tip?

Once you’ve found the original video, copy the URL link of the video and submit a video tip to Newsflare for review. You should see a little blue box in the bottom right-hand corner to submit the URL. You will then earn money for every video tip that is approved.

What kind of videos are Newsflare looking for?

Anything with a unique or interesting action
Extreme weather – tornadoes, floods, lightning, huge storms, massive hail, huge waves, etc
News footage – footage of any newsworthy event that is interesting
Cute pets, kids, families
Dashcam – learner drivers, road rage, crashes
Fails – falls, slips, and crashes
Animal videos – unusual animals, animal attacks, unusual animal behaviour, wildlife rescues

How much can you make?

This varies and depends on how many videos tip and how many go on to sell. There aren’t any limits to the amount you can tip, however, we do recommend around 20 videos to begin with. Don’t feel like you have a massive commitment to us – yo put in as many or little hours as you like! Newsflare will pay you for every tip that is approved, makes it onto the Newsflare platform and for every tip that makes its’ first sale.

We pay £0.50 for every tip that passes checks and is a video that we think has potential to sell. Our newsdesk researchers will attempt to make contact with the filmer of that video.

We pay another £3.50 when the filmer of the video agrees for us to license the video on their behalf and it gets uploaded to Newsflare.

When the video sells, we pay you £6 for its first sale.

How to get started

If you already have a Newsflare account, email contact@newsflare.com and we can activate Video Tipping on your existing account.

If you are new to Newsflare – sign up here

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An alternative glance at the 2016 US presidential elections

Rich Oxley Posted On November 4, 2016

As the 2016 US presidential pantomime reaches its climax, both characters vying for the keys to the White House are pretty much neck and neck in the polls. While many fear seeing the thatched head of a victorious Trump looming all over our TV screens, the prospect of ‘crooked Hillary’ gloating over an election triumph will surely sicken many voters to their stomachs.

With each twist and every new revelation creating enough hot air to hasten an environmental apocalypse, we thought we’d let off a little steam by infusing a bit of comical relief into the proceedings. Whether it’s animals expressing their aversion to presidential candidates or toddlers duking it out in masks, Newsflare’s archive is full of alternative election coverage.

So switch off those TV sets and embrace the absurdity of it all with our latest viral roundup of US election videos.

The “Real” Melania Trump Speech

When Melania Trump made ‘her’ impassioned speech in support of The Donald at the Republican National Convention, there were many left experiencing a curious sense of deja vu. Like an unscrupulous college student, it seemed Mrs Trump had plagiarised from Michelle Obama’s speech to a gathering of Democrats in 2008.

Sensing an opportunity for parody, Youtuber Juliana Rodrigues put on her best ‘fiesty Eastern European’ impression and imagined what Trump’s speech would have sounded like had she wrote it herself. The hilarious monologue includes lines like ‘my husband said to me, if you want to succeed in this country, you have to work work work work work, let me see you work work…’ (a reference to Rihanna and Drake’s hit single for anyone fortunate enough not to have heard it).

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Articulate youngster slams Hillary Clinton

Most people take at least until early adulthood to begin making informed political decisions. But this girl, attired as she is in a richly embroidered princess outfit, is not like most people. The political tirade that her mum encourages her to deliver would undoubtedly leave Clinton quaking in her media trained boots.

Despite an initial memory lapse in recalling Hillary’s surname, the prodigious political pundit quickly comes into her own with a stinging attack on the Clinton email scandal, followed up by a haymaker of a statement about the Benghazi soldiers. She then finishes by asking her mum to send the video to Trump. Good marketing.

Cat has strong aversion to Donald Trump

It seems it is not just the general public who have taken a dislike to Trump; the animal kingdom has apparently had their say as well. While many would argue that there are voters on both sides foregoing a few essential human characteristics, our pets are not yet allowed – or physically able – to cast a vote. But they can still make their opinions heard.

Just like this cat, who – while enjoying a peaceful nap – suddenly sees a gurning cutout of Trump attached to a broom coming towards it. It is impossible to know whether the cat’s anger is actually directed at the face of the republican candidate independently of the broom that threatens to knock it off it’s perch, but it’s reaction is clearly anti-Trump. Maybe it was reminded of a Persian it had battled with earlier that day…

Toddlers recreate presidential debates with hilarious masks

Whether or not these children are making a pointed statement about the theatrical nature of modern politics, or their parents simply wanted to dress them up for a laugh, this footage of two kids donning masks in imitation of each candidate is arguably one of the best things to come out of the election so far.

Each plays their part perfectly. While Toddler Clinton screams in shrill moral outrage, Toddler Trump stamps his feet moodily and looks on the verge of saying something absolutely scandalous. As a heartwarming final gesture, the two then discard their masks and revert to being sweet, blissfully ignorant children once more.

Duck sports Donald Trump haircut

And finally…

A duck on a quest to Make the Lake Great Again, this bird can be seen sporting a Trump-like barnet and swimming around energetically in an apparent bid to enlist voters. Unfortunately for Donald Duck (you got a better name?), after being spurned by a few uninterested lake dwellers, it can be seen towards the end of the video paddling around in an empty expanse of water, friendless and adrift.

Whether this is an early premonition for how the US election will pan out, we will have to wait and see.

If you are planning something around the election, or are able to capture the excitement, celebration, or commiseration of the election process, Newsflare would love to help sell your videos.

Remember, traditional media outlets will be covering the formalities very thoroughly, so anything unusual or alternative would work best for our clients, so keep your smartphones at the ready!

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Unbelievable Jeff… 5 of the greatest sporting fails on Newsflare

Rich Oxley Posted On October 21, 2016

I think it was the great Michael Owen who once said “when you don’t score you hardly ever win.” It would be difficult to dispute this pearl of wisdom, but the Newsflare archive is full of counter-arguments. Take Newsflare member Brunovt77 for example, a non-league football supporter who regularly pockets money after filming forwards missing open-goals in spectacular fashion. When it comes to sporting fails on Newsflare, there are always winners.

It is no secret that failures of the sporting kind make for some of the most entertaining and engaging videos on the internet. It is not that we love to take pleasure in others’ mistakes, it is that watching the human body’s failure to do what is expected of it has a humbling effect that we can all share in. And that we love to take pleasure in others’ mistakes.

There are some that make us belly laugh, some that make us snort heavily through our nostrils, and some that may leave us with our heads in our hands. In the world of viral video, if it is enough to make you want to send it your friends, it has the potential to become the next internet sensation. So, in homage to probably the most shareable of internet genres, we’ve compiled a top 5 of some of our favourite sporting fails.

Batsman commits horrendous blunder

If anyone was ever looking for one-to-one coaching on ‘how not to bat’, give Eastwood cricket club a call. With the reactions of a narcoleptic sloth and embarrassingly poor hand-eye-coordination skills, this guy makes errant swing after errant swing, and finally ends up knocking off the bails with his own bat – which sounds like a metaphor but, sadly in this case, isn’t.

Whether or not the batsman – on a recent visit to Turkey – had witnessed at first hand a group of whirling dervishes in full flow and decided to incorporate their act into his batting technique is unclear. What we do know is that the filmer subsequently uploading his footage to Newsflare’s website, and – amid strong media interest – managed to get the hapless batsman onto an advert for breakfast cereal company Alpen.

Non-league goalkeeper makes cup final howler

It is every goalkeeper’s worst nightmare to make a dreadful blunder in a cup final. But when that blunder involves letting the ball trundle through your legs a la Massimo Taibi, the horror is every bit more intense. The goalkeeper for Hurley United (no need to name him) conceded in calamitous fashion to allow the aptly named Tamworth Arms Galacticos to go 8-2 up.

“Well it’s a shame…” the filmer can be heard repeating, in an attempt to console the head-in-hands goalie. This was clearly one he’d want to forget. Unfortunately for him, the filmer was also a Newsflare member, who promptly uploaded the video to our website and made several sales to national news outlets.

Basketball stuck on rim in final seconds of game

We all know the cliche. It is the last few seconds of the final game of the season and a player (preferably someone completely unexpected) pops up with a buzzer beater to send the entire stadium into hysterics. Many films have been based upon this scenario. But life isn’t a film, and sometimes physics doesn’t work out the way you want it to.

Just like in this high school basketball game, where a last second shot – rather than dropping into the net – seems to tear a fabric in the space-time continuum and stalls on the metal rim. What follows is a hush of disappointment, as the ball shows no signs of coming down. Some say it is still up there…

Man tries bowling. Erases the roof.

For anyone who’s ever handled a bowling ball, you’d know that the margin for error is pretty small. The chances of skewing your aim and missing the pins, let alone flinging one of these hefty balls skyward and causing structural damage to the bowling alley are quite slim.

In a piece of footage uploaded to Newsflare at the start of this year, a guy in France (a nation well known for strikes) decided his bowling technique could do with a bit more elevation. Filled with too much Joie de vivre, the man ends up causing a heavy downpour of ceiling tiles with his wayward attempt. Sacré bleu!

Girl tumbles over final hurdle to finish second

Not all fails end in total disaster. Often the best tests of an athlete is how they react to making a mistake, either mentally or physically. And for the final clip on our list, this person managed to turn a potentially catastrophic situation into something pretty spectacular.

After falling at the final hurdle (yes, literally), athlete Kelsey Sullivan managed to turn her subsequent tumble into a stylish somersaulting finish. The fall may have meant squandering her winning position, but – managing to finish at a highly respectable 2nd place – she won over the hearts of the viral video community.

If you manage to film a sporting fail, or indeed triumph, please consider uploading your footage to Newsflare. There is always huge media interest in these clips, and we would love to help sell them for you!

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