nero vs CamUp: which is better for paid live submissions?

CamUp is a live engagement link with video chat, gifting, tipping, merch, and a music reaction mode. Both let submitters pay to get in front of a host on stream, and both have a music review flow. Both take a cut. If you're only comparing feature lists, they look about the same, and plenty of hosts have tried both.

it's the easiest thing to submit to, so it converts better

More of the people who land on a Nero page actually pay, and that's mostly because submitting is dead simple. There's no account, no app, no signup wall. A submitter drops a link or uploads a file, picks a tier, pays, and they're in line. We A/B test that flow constantly (the current form took completion from 42% to 52% in one test) and every point of conversion shows up directly in what you make per stream.

it doesn't go down

Reliability is the whole thing when you're live in front of thousands of people. Nero's queue is built to handle thousands of submissions in one session, and someone on our team is always watching during the streams.

we handle the disputes

When a submitter disputes a charge, we deal with it. You don't get the Stripe notification, you don't put together evidence, and you don't spend your day arguing with somebody's bank. Taking money from strangers on the internet means chargebacks, and handling them so you never see them is a real part of what you're paying us for.

there's a real engineering team behind it

When a host asks for something, we usually just build it. We've had users ask for everything under the sun and we try to build and ship as many features as we can. For you, it's the difference between a product with a team and a product that's just being maintained.

we clip and distribute the best moments

For active hosts we clip the strongest reactions from the stream and offer them as paid add-ons to your stream (you keep 50% of revenue and do no extra work). We also run paid ad campaigns for our bigger hosts. Your stream keeps working after it ends, and you don't have to do a single thing.

submitters can find you

People on Nero are already submitting to other hosts. Discovery surfaces your session to submitters who are already paying to be reviewed, so you're not only pulling from your own audience every time you go live.

support that answers while you're live

Our team aims to respond within an hour for active hosts. Chances are it's the CEO, CTO, or someone on our founding team that's getting back to you fast, which matters when the problem is happening on stream.

it's not going anywhere

Creators have earned over $6M on Nero, we're backed by Yamaha Music Innovation Fund and Antler, and we sponsor and run events with our hosts (we gave away $35,000 on stream at the Nero Artist Fund event in June). When your income runs through a platform, that stuff matters.

If you just want a queue, either works. If you want the one that's easiest for submitters to use, doesn't break, handles the chargebacks, ships what you ask for, and comes with a team that clips your stream and picks up when something goes wrong, that's Nero.

• Nero and CamUp both run a paid submission queue. The features are similar.
• Submitting on Nero is simple, so more of the people who land on your page actually pay.
• We handle chargebacks and disputes so you never deal with them.
• A real engineering team ships host requests in days, and we clip your best moments and run paid ads for bigger hosts.
• Support aims for a one hour response while you're live, and we're not going anywhere.