Standards of Production & Compensation Terms

Creator Agreement

Version 1.0 · Effective September 19, 2026

This Creator Agreement (“Agreement”) is between you and Aethos Solutions LLC, the operator of the Canvas UGC Marketplace (“Canvas UGC Marketplace”, “we”, “us”). It applies to everyone who registers as a creator and is part of, and governed by, the Canvas Terms of Service. Capitalised words have the meanings given in the Terms.

How It Fits Together

The Terms of Service cover accounts, payments, intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnity and arbitration. This Agreement adds the rules specific to creators: how a campaign runs, what you must and must not publish, exactly how you are paid, and what happens if metrics are falsified. Where the two conflict on a creator-specific matter, this Agreement controls.

1.Independent Contractor

1.1Status. You are an independent contractor engaged by the Brand of each Campaign you are contracted to. The Brand, not Canvas, is your hiring party and client; Canvas provides the platform through which you are matched, reviewed and paid. Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint-venture or franchise relationship between you and Canvas or between you and any Brand. You are not entitled to wages, benefits, workers’ compensation or unemployment insurance from Canvas or any Brand.

1.2Control. You decide whether to apply to any Campaign, when and where you work, what equipment and accounts you use, and how you make your videos, within the Brand’s brief and the standards below. You may work for anyone else, including competitors of any Brand, subject to Section 11.

1.3Taxes and Business Obligations. You are responsible for all income, self-employment and other taxes on your earnings, for any registrations or licenses your work requires, and for your own insurance. Stripe collects tax information from you and issues tax forms where the law requires.

2.Eligibility and Platform Accounts

2.1Age. You certify that you are at least 18 years old. You must not involve anyone under 18 in your content without the lawful consent of their parent or guardian, and never in a way that breaches a Social Platform’s rules.

2.2Your Accounts. Any Social Platform account you use for a Campaign must be created by you, in your own name, and operated by you in compliance with that platform’s terms, including its rules on account authenticity and multiple accounts. Where a Campaign asks for a dedicated account, you decide whether to create one, and you may decline a Campaign whose requirements you cannot meet under the platform’s rules. Canvas does not require, and you must not engage in, any conduct that breaches a platform’s terms. You alone bear the consequences of any platform action against your accounts.

2.3Credentials. Never give your platform password, session or two-factor codes to a Brand, to Canvas, or to anyone else. No one at Canvas will ever ask for them.

2.4Handles You Register. The handles you submit for a Campaign must be real, yours and used only for that Campaign. Submitting a handle you do not control is a material breach.

3.Campaign Workflow

A Campaign runs in these steps. Each is enforced by the Service and none may be skipped.

Apply. You register interest in a live Campaign. Canvas shortlists and contracts up to eight creators per Campaign at its discretion. Applying gives no right to be contracted.
Register accounts and warm up. Once contracted you submit the handles you will use and check in once per day for the Campaign’s warm-up period (3 to 7 days) before publishing brand content. Submissions are blocked until the warm-up is complete.
Concept pre-approval. You submit a Concept (format, hook and caption) for each video. Only videos made under an approved Concept may be published for the Campaign. A Concept can be used for one Post.
Post and log. You publish the video to every platform the Campaign requires and log the live links on the Service. The time you log a Post is its posting time for the Compensation Formula.
Live-link review. The Brand (or Canvas) reviews the live Post within 48 hours. Approved Posts become eligible for compensation. If a Post is rejected with a note you must remove it within 24 hours; a rejected Post never accrues.
Report views. You report views per link with a screenshot as described in Section 7.

3.1Cadence. Campaigns set a weekly target of approved concepts and Posts per creator (default 14). The target is a performance expectation used to decide whether you stay contracted, not a minimum you are paid for. There is no guaranteed minimum volume of work.

4.Content Standards

Every video you publish for a Campaign must:

Be your original work, made by you for this Campaign, and follow the approved Concept and the Brand’s brief;
Use only music, footage, images, fonts, trademarks and other material you own or are licensed to use for commercial content on that platform (for music, use the platform’s commercial or business music library; a track available to personal accounts is often not licensed for branded content);
Feature no identifiable person other than you without their written consent, and no minor without a parent or guardian’s lawful consent;
Make no claim about the Brand’s product that is not in the brief or that you cannot substantiate, and no health, financial, earnings, safety or comparative claim unless the brief expressly authorises it and the law permits it;
Contain nothing unlawful, defamatory, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, dangerous or deceptive, and nothing that breaches the platform’s community guidelines or branded-content rules;
Not promote, and not be published on accounts that promote, gambling, tobacco, vaping, weapons, adult services, or other regulated categories unless the brief expressly allows it and the law and platform permit it; and
Be published only on the accounts and platforms registered for the Campaign.

We and the Brand may reject, and require you to remove, any Post that does not meet these standards, at any time.

5.Disclosure and Honesty

5.1Disclose Every Time. Every Post is paid content. You must clearly and conspicuously disclose that in each Post, in the language of the Post, in a way that is visible without clicking “more” or expanding the caption, using the platform’s paid-partnership or branded-content tool where available and a plain caption disclosure such as “#ad” or “Paid partnership with [Brand]”. Vague tags such as “#sp”, “#collab” or “thanks [Brand]” are not enough. This is required by the United States Federal Trade Commission’s Endorsement Guides (16 C.F.R. Part 255) and by equivalent rules elsewhere, including the UK CAP Code.

5.2Honest Opinions. Your endorsement must reflect your honest opinion and actual experience. Do not claim to have used a product you have not used, do not state results you did not get, and do not present a scripted claim as your own experience unless it is.

5.3Consequences. A Post that lacks the required disclosure or makes an unauthorised claim may be rejected and must be corrected or removed. You are responsible for any regulatory action, platform action or claim that results from your failure to disclose or from a claim you added to the brief.

6.Compensation Formula

6.1What You Earn Per Post. For each approved Post, your earnings to date equal (a) a base retainer for every required platform on which the Post has reached that platform’s view floor (500 or 1,000 views, as set by the Campaign), plus (b) CPM earnings on the combined verified views of all links on the Post, calculated cumulatively in the tiers below and subject to the Campaign’s per-Post cap. Base retainers and view floors are shown on the Campaign before you apply. Once a base retainer is earned it is never taken back.

Combined verified views on the Post	CPM rate
0 – 100,000 combined views	$1.00 per 1,000 views
100,001 – 500,000 combined views	$0.50 per 1,000 views
Above 500,000 combined views	$0.25 per 1,000 views

6.2When It Accrues. A Post becomes eligible for accrual 7 days after you log it and closes 35 days after you log it. Every Friday the Service computes your earnings to date on each open, eligible, approved Post, subtracts what has already been credited, and credits the difference. Nothing accrues before eligibility, after the Post closes, on a Post that is pending or rejected, or on views that have not been verified under Section 7. Amounts are whole cents, rounded down.

6.3Batching, Minimum and Timing. Credits are grouped into one batch per creator per Friday. A batch is released when it reaches US $25; smaller amounts carry over. Released batches are sent through Stripe Connect once your Stripe account has payouts enabled. The Platform Fee is charged to the Brand on top of your earnings and is not deducted from them.

6.4Funds Come From the Campaign. You are paid only from the Campaign’s locked funds. If those funds run out, the Campaign pauses, accrual pauses, and it resumes when the Brand adds funds. Campaign Funds are held by Stripe and paid to you by Stripe on Canvas’s instruction; Canvas does not guarantee, advance or underwrite any payment, and you have no claim against Canvas for amounts a Campaign cannot fund. Payouts are also conditional on your account being in good standing and on the Post not having been found in breach.

6.5No Other Compensation. The Compensation Formula and any Rights Purchase fee are your entire compensation. There is no payment for concepts that are not approved, for Posts that are rejected, for views after a Post closes, for warm-up days, or for expenses.

7.View Reporting and Verification

7.1How to Report. You report the view count for each link no more than once every 24 hours, with a PNG or JPEG screenshot (under 5 MB) of the platform’s own analytics showing the count and the Post. The screenshot must be unedited and taken from an account you control.

7.2Verification. Reports under 50,000 views that are not more than ten times the previous verified count are verified automatically. Larger or unusual reports are held until Canvas verifies them, which may take several days. Only the most recent verified report per link counts. Canvas may verify by any reasonable means, including asking you for additional screenshots, screen recordings, or analytics access, and may substitute its own count.

7.3Platform Data Controls. If a platform removes views, restricts a Post, or its data conflicts with your report, the platform’s data governs and we may correct accruals accordingly.

8.Falsified Metrics and Clawback

Submitting a false, altered or misleading View Report, screenshot, handle or link; buying, botting or otherwise artificially inflating views or engagement; or using an account you do not control, is a material breach. On such a breach we may: reject the affected Posts; forfeit every unpaid credit on your account; reverse and recover any amount already paid, including by set-off, by repayment demand or through Stripe; terminate your account permanently; and report the conduct to the Brand, the platforms, payment providers and law enforcement. You agree that forfeiture is a reasonable estimate of the harm caused and not a penalty.

9.Ownership and Usage Rights

9.1You Own Your Videos. You keep the copyright and every other right in every video you make. Publishing a Post for a Campaign gives the Brand the organic performance of that Post on the platform and nothing more: the Brand may not download, re-upload, edit, whitelist, boost as an ad or otherwise reuse your video unless it buys usage rights under Section 9.3.

9.2License to Canvas. You grant Canvas the license in Section 7.3 of the Terms so we can operate the Service, show your links, reports and screenshots to the Brand, and verify performance. We will not use your videos in our own advertising without your separate written consent.

9.3Rights Purchases. A Brand may offer to buy usage rights to one of your approved Posts for the Campaign’s rights fee (between US $20 and US $1000, default US $50, shown on the Campaign before you apply). You may accept or decline within 7 days; declining has no effect on your standing. If you accept, you must upload the full-resolution file (under 80 MB) within 7 days. On delivery the fee is added to your next batch. If you do not deliver in time the purchase is cancelled and no fee is owed. The license you grant on acceptance is exactly this text, and its version and the time you accept are recorded:

Usage rights license (version 2026-09-19)

By accepting, you grant the brand a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to use this specific video in the brand's own marketing, including paid advertising and its own social channels. The brand may trim, caption and resize it. The brand may not sell, sublicense or transfer the video to anyone else.

You keep ownership of the video and every other right. You may keep the post live and use the video yourself. The brand's fee is paid to you through Canvas UGC Marketplace in the next payout batch after you deliver the file.

License version 2026-09-19

9.4Warranty for Rights Files. When you deliver a rights file you warrant that it is the same video as the approved Post, that you hold every right needed to grant the license (including music cleared for paid advertising, which platform personal-use libraries usually are not), and that its use under the license will not infringe anyone’s rights.

10.Keeping Posts Live

You agree not to delete, archive, privatise or materially edit an approved Post for 35 days after logging it, except where the Post is rejected, where the law or a platform requires removal, or where you have a genuine safety concern (tell us first). A Post you take down early stops accruing from that moment. After a Post closes you may do as you wish with it, subject to any Rights Purchase license you have granted.

11.Confidentiality

Campaign briefs, unreleased product information, rates, Brand contacts and anything a Brand marks confidential are the Brand’s confidential information. Use it only to perform the Campaign, do not share it, and do not publish content about it beyond the approved Posts. This survives for three years after the Campaign ends, or indefinitely for trade secrets.

12.Conduct and Non-Circumvention

Do not contract with, invoice or accept payment from a Brand you met through Canvas for work on that Brand’s products outside the Service for twelve months after your last Campaign together.
Do not disparage a Brand, its product or Canvas in connection with a Campaign; honest, disclosed opinions in your content are not disparagement.
Do not contact a Brand’s customers, staff or partners about a Campaign except through the Service.
Do not apply to a Campaign from more than one account, or on behalf of another person.
Follow the Acceptable Use rules in Section 8 of the Terms.

13.Term and Termination

13.1Term. This Agreement starts when you accept it and continues until your account is closed.

13.2Leaving a Campaign. You may stop working on a Campaign at any time by telling us. Posts already approved continue to accrue until they close, provided you keep them live under Section 10.

13.3Removal by Canvas or the Brand. We or the Brand may remove you from a Campaign, or we may close your account, at any time, including for missed cadence, rejected content, breach of this Agreement, or platform action against your accounts. Unless removal is for the conduct in Section 8 of this Agreement or another material breach, verified credits already accrued are paid in the ordinary batch cycle.

13.4Survival. Sections 1.3, 5.3, 6.4, 7.3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.3, 14 and 15 survive termination.

14.Warranties and Indemnity

You represent and warrant that:

You are at least 18, are legally able to enter this Agreement, and are not barred from working as a contractor in your country;
You own or control every platform account you register and every element of every video you publish for a Campaign;
Your content and reports are truthful, and no View Report is falsified or inflated;
Your performance under this Agreement does not breach any other agreement you have, including any exclusivity you owe another brand; and
The payout details you provide are yours.

The indemnification, release, disclaimer and limitation of liability in Sections 13 to 15 of the Terms apply to this Agreement. In particular you will indemnify Canvas and the Brand for claims arising from your content, your failure to disclose, your breach of a platform’s terms, or your falsified reports.

15.General

The dispute-resolution and arbitration agreement, governing law, notice, assignment and change provisions of the Terms apply to this Agreement. We may update this Agreement as described in Section 18.1 of the Terms; changes to the Compensation Formula apply only to Campaigns you apply to after the change. Your acceptance of this Agreement is recorded with a timestamp on your profile.

16.Contact

Email: support@canvasugcmp.com
Mail: Aethos Solutions LLC, 3680 Wilshire Blvd, Ste P04-1212, Los Angeles, CA 90010, United States