Creator Contest
CreatorContest started as a solution to a problem that many streamers and other long-form content creators face in todays market; "How can I effectively promote my long-form content on short-form platforms such as TikTok or Instagram reels?"
The traditional way is to look trough hours of previous live-streams to find the best moments, then clip them, spend a lot of time editing the clips to fit the attention-catching style of short-form content. After the video is ready, you need to upload it, come up with a caption and generally manage the short-form account.
This is a tedious process which takes time away from what you actually want to do, make long-form content!
Some bigger creators hire video editors to edit the clips in to short-form format, however this can be expensive, and you still do not know if the video will generate any views.
Our solution?
Create a way for the viewers and fans of the long-form creators, to post the creators clips on short-form platforms, and get rewarded based on how many views the video get. It is really a win-win!
Lets go trough the whole process with an example!
- A streamer wants to expand to short-form platforms to promote their long-form content (the live-streams).
- The streamer discovers the CreatorContest discord bot, and decides to give it a go.
- Once the bot is in the discord server, the streamer can customize the bot both visually, and functionally. The streamer configures the bot in a way that clippers earn $5 per 10 000 views they gain on short-form platforms, Oh! and there is also a leader board, where the streamer has set the prize of the 1st position to $50 which the top clipper will get as a bonus on top of their $5 per 10 000 views.
- The streamer then promotes this new feature to their viewers.
- Viewers run to the discord server to register their TikTok accounts made specifically for the streamer.
- The viewers gathers clips from the streamers live-streams, edits them, posts them and submits them to the discord bot which automatically tracks the video stats (likes, shares, views etc)
- At the end of the month, the rewards are paid out to the clippers by the streamer and the leader board resets, ready for the next month.
So that's the whole process! The clippers have a way of earning cash while watching their favourite streamer, and the streamer gets exposure on short-form platforms, while running a risk-free marketing campaign since they only pay when views are acquired!
Technical information:
The bot is built in python using discord's discord.py library, all the data is stored on a database provided by mongoDB.
To host the bot I am using an Ubuntu VPS, where the bot runs on tmux.
To accept payments, I am using Stripe and their API. The payment server for catching new subscribers etc, is made with python as a Flask app which is also hosted on the VPS.