Make short-form video about the games in our collections, and earn rewards based on the views your videos get. You keep your keys, you keep your audience, and you post from your own accounts.
We are not taking applications yet. This page describes the program as it will run.
Digiphile is an online store that sells curated collections of video games. The Short Form Video Program is how we work with creators who make short-form video about games.
Approved creators claim a slot on one of our collections and get Steam keys for the games in it. They play the games, publish short-form video about them on their own Instagram, TikTok or YouTube account, and send us the link. We count the views those videos get and pay a reward based on that count.
Creators are the people we provide this service to. Your creator profile shows you the accounts you have connected and the figures we read from them, tracks the slots you have claimed and the keys you were issued, and is where your reward for a campaign is worked out and shown back to you.
We are not an ad network and we do not resell anyone's data. The only reason we look at a creator's account is to confirm it belongs to them, to check they meet the program requirements, and to work out what we owe them.
Eight steps, from applying to getting paid
Sign in to your Digiphile account and fill in the creator application. We ask for your creator name, where you are based, and how you would want to be paid. We never ask for bank details or ID documents on the form.
Connect the Instagram, TikTok or YouTube accounts you post from. Connecting is how we confirm the account is really yours, and it is how we check that you meet the program requirements.
A person at Digiphile reviews every application. You get an email either way. If we say no, we tell you why, and you can apply again.
Approved creators claim a slot on a live collection, first come first served. You can take the whole collection or a single game from it. Slots are limited because the keys are limited.
Claiming a slot releases Steam keys for the games you claimed, so you can play them and record your own footage.
Post your video on your own account inside the campaign window. It needs to be new footage with your own commentary, feature the game you claimed, and name the Digiphile collection and when it ends.
Send us the link to the video you published. It has to be on one of the accounts you connected. If you cross-posted the same video, the views across those copies are counted together.
We read the view count on the videos you submitted and work out what you earned. Rewards are paid after the collection ends.
Connect one account or all three. You post from your own account, never from ours.
Reels, posted from an Instagram professional account (creator or business).
Videos posted from your own TikTok account.
Shorts posted from a YouTube channel you own.
Nothing happens until you choose to connect an account. When you do, you sign in with Instagram, TikTok or Google on their own page, and you see exactly what you are granting before you agree. We only get read access, and only to the account you picked.
While the account stays connected we re-read the details below roughly every few hours, so the numbers we hold stay current and so we can tell when a connection has stopped working. That stops the moment you disconnect.
We use it for three things and nothing else: confirming the account is yours, checking you meet the program requirements, and working out the reward we owe you.
You can disconnect an account at any time from your creator profile. Disconnecting deletes the stored connection straight away, including the profile details, the counts we read and the access token, and we stop reading anything from that account. One thing to know if you are part-way through a campaign: we read view counts through the connection, so disconnecting before your rewards are worked out limits what we can count for you. Full instructions, including how to delete your whole Digiphile account, are on our data deletion page.
The program is for creators who already post about games. You confirm the following when you apply, and a person at Digiphile reviews it against the figures we read from the accounts you connect.
Requirements can change between campaigns. The version on the application form is the one that applies to you.
You are paid on views, not on clicks, sales or anything you have to chase. Every campaign has a fixed reward pool set aside for creators, and a rate per thousand views that applies to everyone in that campaign, whatever platform you posted on.
Each video has to clear a minimum number of views before it counts at all. Once it clears, all of its views count. If you posted the same video to more than one of your connected accounts, we add those views together rather than counting the video twice. Views accrue until the collection ends, and we take the final reading in the days after that, which is why the video needs to stay up through that period.
There is also a minimum total across the campaign. Your qualifying videos are added up, and a reward becomes payable once that total passes the campaign minimum. We will tell you the figures that apply to a campaign if you ask.
There is a cap on how much any one creator can earn from a single campaign, so one large account cannot take the whole pool, and rewards stop once the pool for that campaign is used up. Digiphile sets the pool, the rate, the minimums and the cap for each campaign, and the figures in effect when you claim your slot are the ones that apply to you.
We work the reward out from the view counts we read on the videos you submitted. We do not pay for views on videos you did not submit, and we do not pay for anything other than views.
The full rules, including what happens if you miss a window, are in the Creator Program section of our Terms of Service.