Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of Shoot, a clipping campaign marketplace that connects brands and businesses with creators. Shoot is operated by Edward Forrester Limited.

By creating an account, joining a campaign, submitting clips, creating campaigns, or otherwise using Shoot, you agree to these terms and any campaign-specific terms shown in the product. Our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Refund Policy and Earnings Terms form part of these terms.

“Shoot” (also written Try Shoot, after the domain tryshoot.com) means the clipping campaign marketplace described in these terms, including the website, the mobile apps, and the services behind them.

“Clipping” means making short-form videos from a brand's footage, product, stream, or brief and posting them to your own social accounts. A “clip” is one such video. A “submission” is a clip a creator has entered into a campaign by pasting its public post link into Shoot.

“Campaign” means a piece of work a business publishes on Shoot: a brief, a set of guidelines, a funded budget, the platforms it accepts, and the terms on which creators are paid. A “brief” is the written instruction inside a campaign; “guidelines” are the specific rules a clip must satisfy to be approved.

“CPM” means cost per mille — the amount paid per 1,000 views a clip earns. A campaign's CPM is set by the business and shown before a creator joins. “Milestone bonus” means a fixed additional amount paid when a clip passes a view threshold the campaign defines.

“Funded” means a campaign's budget has been paid to Shoot in advance and is being held for that campaign. The Funded badge shown on a campaign means only this, and is not a promise that the budget will be paid out.

“Approved” means a business has accepted a submission, at which point it begins earning against the campaign budget. “Rejected” means it has not been accepted and will not earn.

“Views” means the view count reported for a submitted post by the relevant social platform or by Shoot's view-estimation providers. Views are estimates and may be revised.

“Bot risk” (also shown as a trust or risk score) means Shoot's automated assessment of whether the engagement on a submitted post appears to be artificial — bought views, engagement pods, view bots, or similar. A high bot-risk assessment may hold, reduce, or cancel a payout, and may lead to suspension. It is an automated signal, not an accusation, and can be disputed through support.

“Audience proof” means a screen recording of your own account analytics, requested to confirm that the views on an earning clip are real.

“Clearing” means the hold period a payout sits out after it is calculated and before it can be withdrawn. “Cleared” earnings are those that have finished that hold.

“Withdrawal” means moving cleared earnings out of Shoot to a bank account or crypto wallet. “Balance” means money held in your Shoot account — earned, for a creator, or funded but unspent, for a business.

“Shoot” used as a noun with a capital S may also mean a brand's community page on the platform (“your Shoot”). Where these terms mean the company or the service, it is clear from context.

“Restricted country” or “sanctioned country” means a country on the list published in the Restricted countries and sanctions section below.

You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required in your country, to use Shoot. If you are between 13 and 18, you represent that your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these terms and will supervise your use of Shoot.

Creator payouts and earnings are only available to people aged 18 or over. During identity verification we check the date of birth on your government ID; if you are under 18 you cannot receive payouts, though a parent or legal guardian may set up and receive payouts on your behalf.

If you use Shoot on behalf of a business, brand, agency, or other organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation to these terms.

Shoot accounts can operate as creator accounts, business accounts, or both where workspace switching is available.

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure, keeping your account information accurate, and promptly telling us about unauthorised access.

Businesses are responsible for campaigns, budgets, guidelines, team permissions, approval decisions, and payout instructions they publish. Creators are responsible for clips, social posts, links, captions, profile information, and payout details they submit.

A campaign may include a title, description, thumbnail, target platforms, budget, payout model, guidelines, brand assets, dates, submission limits, and visibility settings.

Businesses must make campaign terms clear and must not publish misleading, unlawful, unsafe, or infringing campaign instructions.

Shoot does not guarantee that a campaign will attract creators, receive submissions, reach any number of views, or spend any part of its budget. Funding a campaign buys the ability to run it, not a result. How much of a budget is spent depends on how many creators join, what they post, how the posts perform, and which submissions the business approves — none of which Shoot controls or promises. Unspent budget is returned to your Shoot balance as described under Campaign funding, budgets, and refunds.

Shoot may remove or restrict campaigns that appear to misuse the platform, violate these terms, or create legal, safety, payment, spam, or platform-policy risk.

Creators must only submit clips, links, captions, notes, and files they have the right to submit and post.

Businesses may approve, reject, or request resubmission of clips based on the campaign guidelines. If a clip is rejected, the business should provide a clear reason.

A rejected submission remains visible in the business's review list for 14 days from the rejection, after which it leaves that list but remains available to the business through search. It remains visible to the creator on their own submissions list until the creator removes it. A creator who wants a rejection reconsidered should ask within that period.

Creators must not submit fake links, stolen content, manipulated view counts, duplicated submissions, malicious files, misleading engagement, or content that violates the rules of the relevant social platform.

Bot risk is a score from 0 to 100 that Shoot calculates for each submitted post. It estimates how likely it is that the post's views and engagement are artificial. It is built by Shoot from how the post's views, likes and comments grow over time and how they compare with the campaign's other posts and the platform's norms. The data comes from the social platforms and our view-data providers. The signals, weights and methods we use are proprietary and may change at any time without notice. A post needs at least two view readings before it can be scored.

The score is recalculated every time a submitted post's views are synced. It is shown to the business that owns the campaign, and to its team, to help them review submissions. When a post's score first goes over Shoot's flag threshold, the post is automatically flagged. Its payout is paused, and the business is notified by push notification, in-app notification and email. The payout stays paused until the business reviews the post.

Shoot never rejects a submission automatically because of its bot risk. Approving, rejecting and resolving a flag are decisions a person makes. For a flagged post, the business either releases the payout or rejects the submission. A post that has been cleared is not flagged again on the same evidence. Before a payout is released, we or the business may also ask for audience proof — a screen recording of the post's own analytics.

Bot risk is an automated signal, not a finding of fraud, and it can be wrong. Some genuine posts deliver views in bursts, as the TikTok For You feed often does. Businesses and creators can dispute a bot-risk outcome by contacting support at contact@tryshoot.com. We will review the post's view history, engagement and any audience proof. Shoot's decision on a dispute is final, except where these terms or the law give you further rights.

Fraud by creators. If you buy views or engagement, use bots, view farms or engagement pods, submit a post that is not yours, or otherwise manipulate the numbers a payout is based on, we may reject the affected submissions and withhold, reverse or recover the earnings on them. We may also remove you from campaigns and suspend or permanently ban your account from Shoot. Earnings can be adjusted this way at any time, including after approval and during the clearing hold.

Fraud by businesses. If you manipulate payouts or reviews to avoid paying for approved work, submit fraudulent payment details, raise chargebacks in bad faith, upload campaign assets you have no rights to, or otherwise try to defraud Shoot or creators, we may pause your campaigns and suspend or terminate your account. We may also apply your remaining campaign budget and balance to the losses Shoot or creators suffer as a result. This is in addition to, and not limited by, our rights under Suspension and termination and Campaign funding, budgets, and refunds.

If we believe, in our sole discretion, that the views or engagement on a submitted post may be artificial — whether because of the post's bot-risk score, a report from a business or another creator, a pattern across your account, or anything else we consider relevant — we may open a verification check on the post, the account that published it, or your Shoot account as a whole. We may do this at any stage: while a submission is under review, while a payout is clearing, and after earnings have been released.

As part of a check we may ask you for any information that would help us make an informed decision. That can include, without limitation: a screen recording of the post's own analytics on the platform that published it (views, viewer locations, traffic sources, audience age and gender); a screen recording or screenshots of the publishing account's status, standing and settings; the account's overall analytics; access to, or evidence of, the devices and apps used to post and promote the clip; confirmation of any paid promotion, boosting, or third-party service used on the post; and a written explanation of how the post reached its numbers. We will tell you what we need, where to send it, and by when. The window will be reasonable and will not be shorter than 72 hours unless a payout is about to be released.

You are required to comply with a verification request. If you decline, do not respond within the window, provide material that is incomplete, edited, or does not match the post, or take steps that prevent us from checking (such as deleting the post or making the account private after the request), we are entitled to treat that as supporting the suspicion that the post was botted. On that basis we may hold, reduce, reverse or recover the affected earnings, reject the affected submissions, remove you from the campaign, and suspend or ban your account — in each case as if botting had been established. This applies whether or not any other evidence of botting exists.

A verification request is not an accusation. Genuine posts pass these checks, and a creator who supplies what we ask for promptly is not penalised for having been asked. What you send us is used only to decide the check and to prevent fraud, is shared with the business only where it needs to see it to decide the payout, and is handled as described in our Privacy Policy. Our decision on a check is final, except where these terms or the law give you further rights, and can be reviewed by contacting support at contact@tryshoot.com.

Shoot is free to join and use — creators earn without subscription or listing fees, and Shoot's only creator charge is the withdrawal fee described under Withdrawals and fees below. Campaign payout terms are set by the business for each campaign and may include flat fees, performance pay, milestone bonuses, revenue share, or creator-dependent terms.

Payout and payment features may use Stripe, Wise bank transfers, manual USDT crypto transfers, or other payment providers. Third-party provider fees, verification requirements, payment holds, chargebacks, and payout delays may apply.

Creators are responsible for taxes, income reporting, and any information required to receive payouts. Businesses are responsible for funding campaign budgets and honouring campaign payout terms for approved work.

Estimated earnings, view counts, and payout calculations may change as clips are reviewed, synced, disputed, adjusted, or reconciled. Full payout rules are set out in our Earnings Terms.

Campaign budgets are paid for in advance. When you fund a campaign you authorise Shoot's payment processor to charge the payment method you provide for the full amount shown at the time of purchase, in the currency shown. Card details are entered into the processor's own fields and are never stored by or transmitted to Shoot.

Everything you fund becomes campaign budget. Shoot charges a platform fee of 7% on each amount paid to a creator from that budget, taken from the budget at the time of the payout: paying a creator $100 uses $107 of budget. When a campaign is ended and its unspent budget is returned to you, the same 7% is charged on the amount returned. By funding a campaign you agree to these fees; they are not itemised on the payment screen because they are incurred as the campaign runs and closes, not at the moment of funding.

Funded budget is only spent on submissions you approve. You can pause a campaign at any time; pausing holds the remaining budget in the campaign. Unspent budget from an ended campaign is returned to your Shoot balance less the platform fee described above, from which it can be allocated to another campaign at no further fee.

If you would rather take unspent funds out of Shoot altogether, contact support and we will return them to your original payment method. Platform fees already incurred, on creator payouts and on returned budget, are not refundable — the remaining balance is. Refunds are made to the original payment method only, and may be subject to the payment provider's own timescales and fees.

Money already earned by a creator on an approved submission is not refundable to you, including where the payout is still inside its clearing period. Suspected fraudulent or manipulated submissions should be flagged through the review tools rather than reversed at the card, and we will investigate before the payout clears.

Initiating a chargeback in place of contacting support may result in campaigns being paused and the account being suspended while the dispute is resolved.

Creators can withdraw cleared earnings once they reach the $10 minimum. Two payout rails are available: bank transfer (USD, GBP, or EUR via Wise) and USDT crypto on the Ethereum network (sent manually by the Shoot team).

Payouts are only available to creators aged 18 or over, verified by the date of birth on your government ID during identity verification.

Every withdrawal itemises its fees before you confirm: Shoot's 7% platform fee plus a transaction fee. For bank payouts the transaction fee is the payment provider's transfer fee. For crypto payouts it is the current network (gas) cost. The amount you'll receive is always shown clearly before you confirm.

For crypto withdrawals you must confirm that your wallet address is correct. A wrong address or network means the funds are permanently lost and cannot be recovered, and Shoot is not liable for funds lost this way. Crypto payouts are sent by hand by a Shoot employee, usually within one business day.

You must have a structured country on file and a verified identity before your first withdrawal. Withdrawals require email-code verification, and crypto withdrawals additionally require a ticked sanctions/wallet attestation, which we record.

Payouts, payments, and accounts are not available in the countries listed below due to international sanctions, regulatory restrictions, and payment-provider requirements.

If your country on file is a restricted country, you cannot set up a payment method on Shoot — no bank account, no Wise transfer, and no crypto wallet can be added — and you cannot withdraw money from Shoot. This applies to creator earnings and to business balances alike, and it applies whether or not the balance was earned or funded before the country was restricted. Attempting to move money will be blocked, and you will see a message telling you payouts are not available in your region.

Using a false country, a country you do not live in, or another person's payout details to get around this is a breach of these terms and may result in earnings being withheld and the account being suspended.

If you believe your country is listed in error, or your circumstances have changed, contact support at contact@tryshoot.com and we will review it.

Existing accounts that become subject to sanctions may be suspended. This list is reviewed regularly, is re-checked quarterly, and may change at any time.

You keep ownership of content you already own. You are not transferring ownership to Shoot just by uploading or submitting content.

You grant Shoot a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, sublicensable licence to host, store, display, process, copy, transmit, and use submitted content, campaign assets, messages, and related data as needed to operate, secure, support, improve, and promote the platform.

Creators may use campaign materials only for the relevant campaign unless the business gives separate permission. Businesses must have the rights needed to provide campaign assets, example videos, source videos, logos, and brand materials.

Shoot may automatically share creator activity — such as clip milestones, view-count updates, leaderboard movements, and other performance statistics — to the Shoot home feed and similar in-product surfaces, so creators and brands can discover activity on the platform.

Creators can turn these automatic performance posts off at any time from their profile settings. Turning them off stops new automatic posts going forward; posts already shared may take a short time to clear and may be retained where needed for normal product operation, records, or analytics.

Performance figures shown in these posts are estimates that may change as clips are reviewed, synced, or reconciled, and are provided for discovery and engagement rather than as a definitive statement of earnings or results.

Shoot is not affiliated with TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Apple, Google, Stripe, Wise, Didit, PayPal, Firebase, Cloudflare, Resend, or xAI unless explicitly stated.

You must follow the terms, community rules, advertising rules, API rules, and creator monetisation rules of any third-party platform you use with Shoot.

Shoot is not responsible for third-party account bans, takedowns, algorithm changes, analytics inaccuracies, provider outages, payment-provider decisions, or social-platform moderation actions.

Do not use Shoot to harass users, upload malware, scrape the service, bypass rate limits, manipulate metrics, evade submission limits, impersonate others, infringe intellectual property, commit fraud, launder money, or break applicable law.

Do not attempt to reverse engineer, disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorised access to Shoot, Firebase, Cloudflare, payment systems, or other infrastructure used by the service.

We may suspend or terminate access, remove content, freeze campaign activity, or restrict features where we believe it is necessary to protect users, the platform, payment integrity, legal compliance, or third-party services.

You may stop using Shoot at any time. Some records may be retained where needed for legal, tax, payment, fraud-prevention, dispute, accounting, or security purposes.

On termination we may use funds in your account to cover chargebacks, fees, refunds, or other amounts you owe, to the extent permitted by law.

Shoot is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that view counts, estimated earnings, or campaign results will be accurate or achieved.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Shoot and its team are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid Shoot in the 12 months before the claim or USD $100.

Crypto payouts sent to an incorrect address or network cannot be recovered, and Shoot is not liable for funds lost in this way.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Shoot and its team from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your campaigns or submissions, your use of the service, your violation of these terms, or your infringement of any third-party right.

Most issues can be resolved quickly by contacting support. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be settled by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, and you and Shoot waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action.

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing contact@tryshoot.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking injunctive relief for intellectual-property or unauthorised-access claims.

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where mandatory local consumer law gives you additional rights. The operating entity and exact governing law will be confirmed by counsel before a full paid public launch.

Shoot is provided on an as-available basis while the product is being developed. Features may change, launch, pause, or be removed as the platform evolves.

We may update these terms from time to time. If changes are material, we will take reasonable steps to notify users through the product or another appropriate channel. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept the updated terms.

Questions about these terms can be sent to contact@tryshoot.com.