Halo AI · B2C · AI photo editing app
Pay creators $20 a video plus bonuses at 20K, 100K, 500K and 1M views
29 of 30 creators chose it over a better-paying CPM deal; effective CPM under $1
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Dillion Verma - 0 to $300k/mo in 45 days with my ai app (just copy me)
JosephAnd how he kept 85 creators posting everyday, consistently, competitively, without someone managing them super tightly, that came down to a deal structure experiment with a very unexpected result.
Dillion VermaBoth of them are structured in a way where the pay was equivalent or like very close, but CPM was slightly more, and we gave this contract to 30 creators, and you wouldn't believe it, but like 29 of them picked this one and one person picked CPM in the end.
Joseph29 out of 30 creators chose the option that actually paid them less. In this episode, Dillion breaks down the entire system, the one format, the math behind his content machine, and the creator pay structure that keeps all of it running. Let's get into it. This is the Superwall Podcast, and I'm Joseph Choi, founder of Consumer Club. The members in the Consumer Club Discord and the founders that I interview on the pod build apps at a median of 1 …
JosephWhat are the milestones that you like to set for the view counts?
Dillion VermaThere's multiple ways, but in the beginning, we did 20k, 100k, 500k, and 1 mil views. For each one, we had like a different payout. For this, I think we did 60 additional, and then we did 200, 500, and then 800.
JosephIt's around like $1 uh per 1,000 views like on average?
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- Post creator jobs in UGC Facebook groups, then pay a $100 five-day trial500-600 applicants at 30-50 a day; trial winners became the 85-creator roster
- Give every creator one video format: shocking AI prank image, app demo, then a text-message storyOne format drove 1.2B views; ~5% of videos pass 100K, ~1% pass 1M
- Let creators post as many videos a day as they wantTop creators post 20+ videos a day (~80 posts); no rate limits seen on YouTube or Instagram
- Put an AI bot in Discord that writes scripts from your million-view videosCreators use it daily for new scripts; no numbers
- When one video goes viral, have every creator remake it that dayProduces big view spikes after each hit; no exact numbers
- Put all creators in one Discord with channels for wins, ideas and feedbackFounder says the camaraderie keeps creators motivated and sharing; no numbers
- Let people skip the first paywall, then show another when they hit submitTwo paywalls together beat one hard paywall in repeated tests; each converts 16.5%
- Charge $8.99 a week after a free trial, with extra offers when people leaveWeekly has worked best so far; yearly tested and dropped for now
- Take a $100K personal loan to pay creators once early videos return 6xScaled at break-even for ~4-5 weeks, then ~50% margin at $300K MRR
- Predict where revenue will level off from views, conversion and churnForecast a $300K MRR plateau and hit exactly that
- Run the videos that already went viral as Meta ads
Tags: creator-comp, milestone-bonus, per-video-base, cpm-vs-milestone