X Creator Video Kickstart Bonus— Promotional Terms
Effective: October 15, 2026
X Creator Video Kickstart Bonus— Promotional Terms
X Creator Video Kickstart Bonus Pilot Promotional Terms ("Terms") are between you and X Corp. ("X," "we," "us") and govern your participation in the Video Kickstart Bonus Pilot Program (the "Program"). "You" or "Creator" means the individual or entity holding the X account participating in the Program.
Your participation is also subject to the X Terms of Service, the X Privacy Policy, X Rules and Policies, Original Content Rewards Program Terms, and the X Money Legal Terms and Policies; Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings ascribed in the User Agreements.
The Program is separate from X's Original Content Rewards Program and from any other X program. X is solely responsible for paying any reward it determines to pay. The Program is not a peer-to-peer transfer from any X Account. Participation in one does not entitle you to participate in, or affect payments under, the other.
IF YOU LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, THESE TERMS INCORPORATE A BINDING ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER. SEE SECTION 15.
1. Acceptance
By participating in the Program after being invited, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not participate. If you accept on behalf of an entity, you represent you are authorized to do so. We will not pay you, including for any activity before the Effective Date unless you have accepted these Terms. Receipt of an invitation does not promise any payment or any amount. You consent to our use of data you provide, we collect, or we infer about you to operate the Program, including to determine eligibility and payments.
2. The Program
The Program is a limited pilot for evaluation purposes in which X may make discretionary payments to participating Creators in connection with short-form videos they publish and post on X.
During each Pilot Period, enrolled Creators may be eligible for a bonus reward if they (1) post at least 15 Qualifying Videos from an enrolled account, AND (2) post at least 1 Qualifying Video on each of at least 15 different calendar days, based on Pacific Time (the "Eligibility Criteria”). A “calendar day” means a 24-hour period beginning at 12:00am PT and ending at 11:59pm PT. Extra videos above 15 do not increase the reward. Posting more than one Qualifying Video on the same calendar day does not count as extra days. Creators will receive at most one bonus reward per enrolled Pilot Period.
a. Pilot Period. The Program shall proceed in distinct rounds (each, a “Pilot Period”), with the first Pilot Period commencing on October 15, 2026 at 12am PT until Nov 14, 2026 at 11:59pm PT (“Period 1”). A Creator must enroll an account in the Program by 11:59pm PT on October 30 to participate in Period 1.
X may, in its sole discretion, add one or more additional Pilot Periods, or decline to add any. For each additional Pilot Period, X will determine, in its sole discretion, the start time, the end time, and the length of that period. X has no obligation to keep periods the same length, to run them back to back, or to run any minimum or maximum number of periods.
For each Pilot Period, X may announce an enrollment cutoff. If no enrollment cutoff is provided, the last date to enroll in a Pilot Period will be no later than 15 consecutive calendar days before the announced end time of that Pilot Period. A Creator who has not enrolled by the announced enrollment cutoff may not participate in that Pilot Period. Enrollment in one Pilot Period does not guarantee your participation in any later Pilot Period.
X may extend, shorten, modify, pause, or end any Pilot Period or the Program at any time, in its sole discretion, including for business, financial, or legal reasons. Nothing in these Terms creates an expectation that X will add any Pilot Period, that any Pilot Period will have any particular length, or that any payment will be made in any period.
Invitation to the Pilot does not create a right to future creator programs. This is not a revenue share. Payments are discretionary rewards in amounts, and on a basis, determined solely by X. They are not a share of, or calculated as a fixed percentage of, any revenue. X is not obligated to make any payment, to use any particular method or factors in determining payments, or to treat Creators consistently with one another or across periods. Meeting the Eligibility Criteria, posting any number of Qualifying Videos, receiving an invitation, enrolling, or remaining enrolled makes a Creator eligible for consideration only. It does not create a right to be paid, a right to any amount, or an amount due.
b. Final Count. After a Pilot Period ends, we will review posts from that period and determine in our reasonable discretion whether a post satisfies the criteria for the Program. On review we may add or remove posts from the Qualifying Video count for any reason, including because the post did not meet Section 4 or was deleted, made private, withheld, removed, or no longer meets our monetization or integrity standards. The Final Count of Qualifying Videos and qualifying posting days is the count we determine when bonus review for that Pilot Period is complete. That Final Count controls. It may be higher or lower than the number shown in any informational trackers or any other UI during or after the Pilot Period. A change in the final count may cause you to meet, or to fall below, the Eligibility Criteria.
c. Trackers in UI. During a Pilot Period, X may choose to display a tracker or other in-product count of videos and posting days. Any such tracker is informational only. It is not a determination that any post is a Qualifying Video, that you have met the Eligibility Criteria, or that any reward will be paid. The tracker may be delayed, incomplete, or incorrect, and it may change as posts are added, deleted, labeled, or reviewed. Meeting any counts shown in the tracker does not create a right to be paid.
3. Eligibility
Eligibility requirements are set out in the Program Help Page and may change from time to time. During the Pilot Period, participation is by invitation only. Without limiting the Help Page, to participate you must:
- be at least 18 years old, located in a country where the Original Content Rewards Program is available, and in the US you must be in a state where X Money is supported;
- hold an X account in good standing, with a verified email address on your X account;
- be subscribed to an eligible X Premium tier or be an affiliate of an eligible Premium Business on X;
- in the US, have an active X Money account that can receive payments, and complete any identity verification, tax, and payment onboarding that X Money requires;
- for non-US users, have a connected Stripe payout account and have completed verification via Stripe;
- not be an employee, contractor, or agent of X, SpaceXAI, Cursor, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Tesla, Inc., or their parents, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates, unless pre-approved in writing; and
- not be a Prohibited Person (Section 6).
Receipt of an invitation does not guarantee your participation or any payment. We may revoke any invitation and we may remove you from the Program, in our sole discretion, at any time.
4. Qualifying Videos
a. Qualifying Videos. A “Qualifying Video” is a video post on X that meets all of the following at posting and through bonus review:
- Posted to X from your enrolled account after you’ve enrolled and posted during the applicable Pilot Period.
- The Qualifying Video must be yours. You must have created the video, and you own or control all rights needed to post and monetize it on X. Videos you already posted on other platforms may count if they are solely your creation. Videos that are not yours do not count, even if you have permission to reshare them as a clip or stitch.
- Must be a vertical video, 9:16 ratio.
- Under 3 minutes in duration.
- Does not carry another platform’s watermark, name, or logo.
- Is not branded content or a paid partnership, and was not promoted as an ad.
- Is not showing a Community Note rated “Helpful.”
- Complies with the X User Agreement, including the X Rules and Policies, Copyright Policy, and Creator Monetization Standards.
- Not spam, not mass-produced solely to manufacture qualifying posts, not posted solely through unauthorized automation, and not identical near-duplicates posted to inflate the count.
- Not removed, withheld, or labeled in a way that makes it ineligible under our monetization or integrity systems.
We decide in our reasonable discretion whether a post is a Qualifying Video. Our count at the end of each Pilot Period controls. Qualifying Videos must remain posted and public on the enrolled account through the end of each Pilot Period and until we complete bonus review. If a video is deleted, made private, withheld, or removed (by you or by us) before payout and that causes you to drop below 15 Qualifying Videos or below 15 posting days, you do not earn that Pilot Period’s bonus reward.
Videos posted before the Pilot Period starts do not count toward that Pilot Period. Videos posted after the Pilot Period ends do not count toward that Pilot Period.
b. License. You hereby grant X and its affiliates a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, make available, and modify (as reasonably necessary) your Qualifying Videos and to use your name, X handle, and content to identify and promote your Qualifying Videos and the Program. You retain ownership. This license continues for as long as your Qualifying Video is published and, after unpublished or the Program ends, survives for existing clones and for a reasonable wind-down period. To the extent allowed by law, you waive moral rights in connection with the foregoing.
c. Originality. You represent that each Qualifying Video you submit is your own original work or that you hold all rights necessary to submit it, that it does not copy or substantially reproduce another user's content, and that it does not impersonate any person, brand, or organization or suggest an affiliation you do not have.
d. Standards. Content must comply with the User Agreements and applicable law, and must not contain or facilitate content that is unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or that violates third-party rights. We may remove any content from the Program or from X at any time.
e. Posts and Disclosure. Your X post containing the content remain public and unedited for at least thirty (30) days after the end of any period in which it qualified you for a bonus reward.
5. Rewards and Payment
a. Determination. X determines whether to make a payment to you for a Pilot Period and the amount of any payment, in its sole discretion, using such information and factors as it considers appropriate. Those factors may include, without limitation and without any commitment to use any of them, information about your Qualifying Videos, your posting activity in the Program, whether the Eligibility Criteria have been met, etc.
Except as Section 16 requires, X may change the factors, method, weighting, amounts, minimums, maximums, or cadence of payments at any time, without notice, for any reason. Any description of how payments are currently determined, including in the Help Page or in communications from us, is informational only and does not limit this Section.
b. Additional Discretionary Amounts. X may, at any time and for any period, pay additional discretionary amounts to some or all Creators, and may condition any such amount on requirements it specifies. Any such amount is payable at most once per individual or entity for the relevant condition, may be withheld or recouped if we determine the condition was not genuinely met or the qualifying video or post was low-quality, duplicative, or removed shortly after payment, and creates no entitlement to the same or any amount in any other period or for any other Creator.
c. One-Time Rewards. All payments under the Program, including any additional amount under Section 5(b), are a one-time discretionary reward. X decides, in its sole discretion, whether to pay any amount, to whom, and in what amount. A payment for one Pilot Period, condition, or account creates no right to any further payment, including in a later Pilot Period, for a different account, or on the same condition. X will pay at most one bonus reward per Creator per Pilot Period.
d. Payment. Rewards are paid by X in U.S. dollars through X's creator payout run - the same process used for Original Content Rewards and contests - and credited to the X Money balance or Stripe account tied to your X account, on the same schedule used for other X programs, net of any processing fees. Before any payment you must complete X Money or Stripe onboarding, including identity verification and submission of tax information (such as a Form W-9). No payment issues until that onboarding is complete. You authorize X and its affiliates to share the information necessary to determine, make, and monitor payments, including your X handle, payment amounts, and payment status. If you cannot receive payment through X Money in the US, or Stripe outside of the US, for any reason, you are not eligible to participate in the Program, and you forfeit amounts we cannot pay.
e. Initial Payment. No initial or retroactive payment will be made unless you have accepted these Terms before that payment runs. An invitation is not a promise that you will be paid any amount.
f. No Guarantee. Rewards are variable, discretionary, and not guaranteed income. Any estimates we share with you are informational only and do not create any obligation.
g. Corrections. We may recoup or set off against any amounts payable to you under these Terms or any other X program (e.g., Original Content Rewards), including after the Pilot Period ends, if we determine you were ineligible, breached these Terms, engaged in fraud or manipulation, or that a payment was attributable to IP infringement or a sanctions issue.
6. Rules and Restrictions
Rewards are personal to your participating accounts and are not transferable.
You may not artificially inflate, manipulate, or misrepresent the use of your videos, including through your own accounts, accounts you control or coordinate, automated or scripted usage, paid or incentivized downloads, or any other means. If we determine you have done so, you forfeit any amounts due, we may recoup amounts already paid, and we may remove you from the Program and from X.
Payments or bonus rewards are payable once per individual or entity regardless of the number of accounts or Qualifying Videos you hold. Enrolling multiple accounts, splitting Qualifying Videos across accounts, or publishing near-duplicate Qualifying Videos to obtain payments or bonus rewards is a breach of these Terms.
Amounts paid under the Program are discretionary rewards determined by X. They are not wages, and no amount is owed for any period unless and until X determines to pay it.
You may not participate if you are a person with whom U.S. persons may not deal under applicable sanctions (a "Prohibited Person"), including persons on OFAC's SDN list; located in, a citizen of, or ordinarily resident in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, or Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine; or if you work for a government institution, are an elected official, or are engaged in election-related activity. You represent you are not a Prohibited Person.
We may impose additional limits or block payments under anti-money-laundering, sanctions, or anti-fraud laws or policies.
You are responsible for complying with all applicable laws in connection with your participation, including FTC endorsement and disclosure rules when you promote your Qualifying Videos or the Program.
7. Taxes
You are responsible for all taxes arising from payments to you. X may withhold amounts required by law, and payment as reduced by any withholding is full settlement of the amount due. You will provide tax documentation reasonably requested before any payment, and X will issue tax forms (such as Form 1099) where required.
8. Term and Termination
These Terms begin when you accept them and continue until the end of the Pilot Period or earlier termination. You may withdraw at any time by replying to your Program invitation or through any other method we designate. We may terminate your participation at any time, including if you breach these Terms or the User Agreements, no longer meet eligibility requirements, or for any business, financial, or legal reason.
9. Confidentiality and Publicity
You may state publicly that you participate in the Program and may share the amounts you are paid. You will keep confidential any non-public information we share with you about the Program, including non-public information about how rewards are determined, except as required by law. We may identify you as a participant and reference your Qualifying Videos in our marketing.
10. Data
You consent to X and its affiliates collecting and processing data about your Qualifying Videos, their use by other users, your accounts, and your X activity related to the Program, and to sharing that data with each other as needed to operate the Program and make payments. X's handling of personal data is described in the X Privacy Policy.
11. Disclaimer
THE PROGRAM IS EXPERIMENTAL AND OFFERED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND MAKE NO REPRESENTATION AS TO THE ACCURACY OF USAGE MEASUREMENT, THE AVAILABILITY OF THE PROGRAM, OR THE AMOUNT OR TIMING OF ANY REWARD.
12. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, X, SPACEXAI, CURSOR, AND THEIR AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM THE PROGRAM. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY UNDER THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS OR THE AMOUNTS PAID TO YOU UNDER THE PROGRAM IN THE SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
13. Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant that: (a) you have all rights necessary to submit your Qualifying Videos and grant the license in Section 4(b); (b) all information you provide to us and to X Money and Stripe is accurate and current; (c) you are at least 18 and have authority to enter these Terms; (d) you will comply with all applicable laws, including data protection, advertising, and FTC endorsement rules; (e) you will comply with the User Agreements; and (f) your Qualifying Videos and participation will not infringe or violate any third-party right.
14. Indemnity
You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless X, and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from any third-party claim, liability, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your Qualifying Videos, your participation in the Program, or your breach of these Terms.
15. Dispute Resolution
The dispute resolution provisions in the X Terms of Service, including binding arbitration, the class action waiver, the two-year limitation on claims, and the 30-day opt-out right, applies to any dispute arising from these Terms or the Program, including disputes with SpaceXAI and Cursor relating to the Program. Each of SpaceXAI and Cursor may invoke and enforce this Section 15 to the same extent as X. You may not avoid arbitration by naming SpaceXAI or Cursor instead of X. If you opt out of arbitration under the X Terms of Service, that opt-out applies here only if you provide notice in the manner those terms require.
16. Modification
We may modify these Terms. We will notify you of material changes by email to the address on your X account or by notice in the product. Continued participation after the effective date is acceptance. If you do not accept a change, you may withdraw under Section 8. We will provide reasonable advance notice before material reductions to how rewards are determined take effect, except where required for legal or fraud reasons.
17. Relationship
You are an independent participant in a pilot program. Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, agency, partnership, or joint venture relationship between you and X, between you and SpaceXAI, or between you and Cursor, and no benefits of employment apply.
18. Third-Party Beneficiary
Each of SpaceXAI and Cursor is an intended third-party beneficiary of these Terms, including Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Each of SpaceXAI and Cursor may enforce those provisions in its own name, including the license in Section 4(b), the Program rules and recoupment, disclaimers and limits of liability, indemnity, and dispute resolution. Nothing in this Section makes either SpaceXAI or Cursor a party to these Terms, makes SpaceXAI or Cursor responsible for any payment, or creates any employment, agency, or joint-venture relationship between you and SpaceXAI or between you and Cursor. X remains solely responsible for paying any reward it determines to pay. Except for SpaceXAI, Cursor, and the indemnitees named in Sections 12 and 14, these Terms do not confer any right on any other person.
19. Miscellaneous
a. Feedback. Any feedback you provide about the Program or the X platform may be used by us without restriction or compensation.
b. Governing Law. The governing law of the X Terms of Service apply to these Terms.
c. Notices. Notices to us must be sent to X Corp. at the legal notice address set out in the X Terms of Service. Notices to you may be sent to the email address on your X account, by reply to your Program invitation, or by in-product notice, and are deemed received when sent.
d. Waiver and Severability. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
e. Language. English controls. You acknowledge that English shall be the language of reference for interpreting and constructing the terms of these Terms.
f. Entire Agreement. These Terms, the Help Page, and the User Agreements are the entire agreement regarding the Program. If there is a conflict, these Terms control over the Help Page. Changes to the Help Page do not amend these Terms.