why creators use nero for paid submissions

The hardest part of going live is knowing what to do for two hours. A Nero session solves that. You go live, submissions come in, and you react. It's a format people already want to watch, and every submission in the queue is money.

Without Nero, a submitter pays you on one app, drops a link in chat, and DMs you a screenshot. You copy it into a spreadsheet and hope you remember who paid for what. That works for five submissions and completely falls apart at fifty.

Nero puts the submission, the payment, and the spot in line into one flow, so submitters know what to do and you know what's next.

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. That matters more than it sounds like it should, because every extra step is people dropping out before they pay. We A/B test the flow constantly and the current form took completion from 42% to 52% in one test.

Reliability is the whole thing when you're live. Nero's queue is built to handle thousands of submissions in one session, payments run through Stripe, and someone on our team is watching during the big streams. When a stream is making thousands of dollars, the platform can't be the thing that breaks.

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.

When a host asks for something, we usually just build it. Sugarshack asked for a Klaviyo connection and a gold star discount email and both were live in two days. Shopify add-ons, collab queues, bundles, and the waitlist all started as host requests.

We don't set your prices, you do. Standard can be free or paid. You price skip, super skip, throne, and any add-ons, cap submissions per submitter, pause the queue, and close it after a set time or count. You can change any of it mid-stream.

If you're still building an audience, run free entry with paid priority. If you've already got real demand, go paid-only and price the tiers accordingly.

Every tier and price is visible before checkout. After submitting, people see their spot in line and get an email when they're close, so nobody's asking "did you get mine?" in chat. We've tested this flow a lot, and the clearer the purchase is, the more people actually go through with it.

For active hosts we clip the strongest moments from the stream and distribute them to your fans (you make 50% of the clip revenue without doing anything extra), and we run paid ad campaigns for our bigger hosts. The best reviews of the night reaches people who weren't watching, and you don't have to touch an editor.

People on Nero are already submitting to other hosts. Discovery surfaces your session to submitters who are already paying to be reviewed, so every stream isn't only pulling from your own audience.

A small problem feels huge when you're live. Our team aims to respond within an hour for active hosts. That's a target, not a guarantee everything gets solved in that hour, but it's a real person getting back to you fast.

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, like the Nero Artist Fund event in June where we gave away $35,000 on stream. When your income runs through a platform, that matters.

It's the best product for this, it works when you're live, and there's a team behind it that builds what you ask for and picks up when something breaks. You still need an audience and a stream worth watching. Nero takes care of everything else.

• Nero gives you something to do on stream that makes money.
• One link handles submissions, payments, and the queue, and it's simple enough that submitters actually finish.
• We handle the chargebacks and disputes so you never see them.
• It doesn't go down, and a real engineering team ships host requests in days.
• We clip and promote your best moments and run ads for bigger hosts.
• Support aims for a one hour response while you're live.