How you earn: a shop buys your ad

What you get when a shop buys your ad (a “keep”).

Every ad plays free for its shop with Cracked's mark on it. For $49 the shop buys it: the clean file and the right to post it. Cracked calls that a keep.

$29.40 to you when a shop buys your ad (+ $4.90 when you found the shop). That's for every creator, free or in the challenge.

• A shop pays $49 for your ad: $29.40 (60%) is yours for making it.
• These shares are paid to every creator, free or in the challenge.
• Bring the shop and you also get 10% of everything it pays for a year from its first payment, whoever makes its ads.
• A share is yours once that payment's 7 days to refund are over. Shares are worked out on what the shop paid, less tax.

What you keep of each keep depends on your level: 60% at Rookie, up to 80% at Cracked.

A shop can also pay $99 a month for new ads every month. When it's a shop you brought, your bringing share counts those payments too.

Pending, then cleared

Money is pending while the shop can still get a refund, then it clears. Cleared money is what gets paid out and what counts toward your level.

Other ways to earn: clipping (not open yet) and affiliate links (practice only for now). Nothing here promises you'll earn anything.