Clipping agency workflow: one channel and one cost per client

Who runs a clipping agency

Clipping means taking a long piece of content, a podcast, a Twitch live or a YouTube video, and cutting vertical formats out of it. A clipping agency sells that as a service. Its clients are creators, brands and companies with hours of video and no time to cut it. The agency delivers edited Shorts, posted on the client’s channel at the agreed pace.

The word has a bad name when it means excerpts reposted without consent. Many clippers repost other people’s videos to collect the ad revenue, and most creators see that as intellectual property theft. This page is about the other model: the agency working under contract, from its clients’ own videos.

For that agency, Stratos·Clip is a one-sided production and posting tool. You pay for the tool, you bill your clients, and your rates are your business. If you run your own clip channels rather than clients’ channels, Stratos·Clip for clippers fits you better.

What a client costs you, in credits

A client is not counted in channels. A channel is a subscription right and uses no credits; credits belong to the space and serve every client channel in it. They pay for two things: each rendered Short costs 1 credit, each block of 10 analysed minutes costs one.

Your cost for a client therefore follows what they hand you. One hour of their video gives about 16 Shorts for 22 credits. A client who sends a one-hour episode every week costs four times that amount each month. Set it against your plan’s price: that is your cost for this client, and your rate sits on top of it.

A new client beyond the included channels adds $4.00 a month to your bill and leaves your credits alone. A quiet month for one client costs you nothing: unused credits roll over to the next cycle, and a busy month is covered by a top-up of 100 credits.

Three limits of agency work, and what changes

Editing caps how many clients you can take. Cutting, reframing and captioning by hand takes time on every video, and each new client adds editor hours. Stratos·Clip finds and scores the strong moments, reframes them vertically on the person speaking and captions them word by word. The template follows the client’s content: podcast and interview, gaming, reaction, series and fiction. Your team moves from cutting to reviewing: each clip can be watched, pulled from the queue or scheduled by hand before it goes out.

The consistency each client pays for. A client pays for a channel that posts, not for a folder of files. Their channel gets its pace once, as fixed slots or a number of posts per day, from 1 to 10. That pace lives inside a daily cap shared by every channel in the space, and the app refuses at setup an increase that would go past it. The more clients you sign in one space, the more that cap is split: only promise each client the pace the setting accepts. If your balance hits zero, client channels keep posting what is already rendered.

Knowing which client has a problem. The « À traiter » (to handle) home view lists first the channels that failed in the last 24 hours, then those whose queue covers 5 days or less. You call the client whose channel is about to run dry before they notice.

Reporting to clients. A client stays when they see numbers. Each channel has its views, second-by-second retention and weekly report, the first one after a week of posting. Titles, descriptions and comments of the Shorts posted by Stratos·Clip can be edited from the app, without opening YouTube Studio. Reports are read in the app, with no export: the update you send the client is still yours to write.

One agency month, worked out

Take an agency with six clients, each with a one-hour podcast every week. Each client sends four episodes in the month, about four times 16 Shorts for their channel. That is enough to post about two Shorts a day on each client channel, within the space’s daily cap.

On the credit side, the agency uses twenty-four times 22 credits in the month, all clients together, since credits are shared across the space.

• Pro. Its 8 channels cover the six clients, but its 500 credits fall slightly short of twenty-four hours of video: one top-up of 100 credits closes the gap.
• Agence. 20 channels and 1,250 credits for $149.90 a month. The six clients fit with plenty of room to sign more. Agence beats a topped-up Pro once your clients outgrow its 8 channels or their videos outgrow its credits.

Your margin is read client by client: what you bill them, minus their share of the plan’s price, in proportion to the credits their videos use. The app does not split this for you: the Subscription page shows the space’s balance by bucket (rollover, cycle, top-up), not by channel. Keep the tally from the hours each client sends, or rerun one client’s numbers with their own durations in the Shorts calculator.

Paid plans open with online payment. Until then, the “Notify me at launch” button on the pricing grid records your email and the plan you want, and the free plan already posts to one channel, up to 2 Shorts a day.

What the tool does for an agency, and what it does not

What serves the job:

• An editorial line per client. The channel description and its selection guidelines tell detection the client’s tone and what they never want posted.
• The client’s branding, not ours. Watermark, outro and the text added to descriptions are saved on each channel and go out with every render. On a paid plan the watermark image is yours to choose: put your client’s logo where the free plan forces ours.
• Your team in the space. Invite your editors by email, as Member or Admin.
• No password changes hands. Each client channel connects through Google’s official sign-in, and Stratos·Clip only acts on the videos it posted. A channel on a Brand Account can have more than one owner or manager, and the holder of a Google account can remove an app’s access at any time.

What does not exist, to tell clients before they sign:

• No white label. The app stays under the Stratos·Clip brand.
• No client-only access. An invited member sees the whole space, so your other clients’ channels too. Invite your team only.
• No public API. The plans do not plug into your own delivery tool.
• YouTube Shorts only. A client who also wants TikTok or Instagram needs a multi-network tool; our comparisons say which ones post elsewhere.
• No finished clips. Stratos·Clip starts from your clients’ long videos and does not import clips edited elsewhere.
• French first. The interface is in French, and detection and titles have only been measured on videos in French. Test a client in another language on the free plan before you sell them a pace.

Rights: your client’s consent first

You post your clients’ videos on their channels, with their written consent. You are the one adding the videos, you are responsible for them, and a Content ID claim targets the channel that posts.

If your agency opens a clip channel of a creator, separate from theirs, consent no longer settles monetization. YouTube applies its reused content policy even with the original creator’s permission, and lists Shorts compiled from other social networks among the examples that cannot monetize. The reused content guide sets out what YouTube accepts.

Start your agency on Stratos·Clip

1. Create the space with your Google account, and try a first client on the free plan, which posts to one channel.
2. Invite your editors to the space, as Member or Admin.
3. Connect each client’s channel through Google. Past your plan’s channels, the app shows « Limite de chaînes YouTube atteinte » (channel limit reached).
4. On each channel, fill in the description, the selection guidelines and the client’s branding.
5. In « Diffusion automatique » (auto-posting), set the mode and the posts per day agreed with the client, within the space’s cap.
6. Add their videos by YouTube link or by file, then review the clips before they go out.
7. Every morning, read « À traiter »; every week, turn each channel’s report into the client update.

The queue that will post for your clients already posts about 500 Shorts a week on our own channels (October 2026 count). How it runs on one channel is in Auto-post YouTube Shorts, running several channels in Manage multiple YouTube Shorts channels, and picking slots in the guide How to schedule YouTube Shorts.