Kick
Bounties.

What are Kick Bounties? Kick's own challenge board

Kick Bounties are contests Kick runs itself. The terms on bounties.kick.com name the organiser as Kick Streaming Pty Ltd, and Kick's help center calls them "challenge-based incentives that reward Streamers, Viewers, and developers" (guide updated 9 July 2026).

Viewer bounties have you clip someone else's stream. Creator bounties have you complete the task live on your own channel, in the KICK Bounties category. Developer bounties are for building with Kick's API.

The numbers on 21 October 2026. The Bounties Log lists 62 entries since 2024 (the July Beat Max contest appears four times, once per language): 42 creator, 19 viewer and 1 developer bounty. 18 of the 19 viewer bounties asked for a clip. Only 2 bounties were open that day, one for viewers and one for creators.

Not to be confused: the US$100,000 "Create an App for Viewers" bounty (closed 7 May 2025) was the board's only developer bounty, for apps on Kick's API, not clips.

How do Kick Bounties work? Five ways to win

The game mode on each bounty decides who wins. The terms define five: Standard (the first valid entry wins), Chance (a random draw among valid entries for a set number of winners), Split (valid entries share the reward equally), Speedrun (fastest time) and High score (best result).

Chance dominates: 42 of the 62 entries. All 17 viewer bounties posted in 2026 were Chance draws, 16 with 5 winners and 1 with 3. So a valid clip buys you a ticket, not a win, and since Kick does not publish entry counts, the odds are unknown.

Kick checks every entry, can disqualify anyone who cheats or submits someone else's gameplay, and is "the final arbiter". Its help center says winners are announced on @KickCommunity on X or on its subreddit, r/KickStreaming.

How to join Kick Bounties: a clip bounty step by step

There is no sign up form: you need a Kick account and the entry instructions on the bounty. For the viewer bounty Trick Shot, on 21 October 2026:

1. Watch another streamer. Clipping your own stream does not count on a viewer bounty.
2. Clip the moment on Kick with the Clip icon or the C key, 10 to 180 seconds. Steps in how to clip on Kick.
3. Put "KICK Bounties" in the clip title. Kick says it checks.
4. Copy the original Kick clip link. No links from other sites, no video files.
5. Reply to the entry post linked from the bounty card, before the deadline. Recent viewer entry posts sit on Kick's subreddit, so you also need a Reddit account.

Trick Shot allows multiple entries. Creator bounties differ: for Top Five at Freddy's you stream in the KICK Bounties category, clip your run, download it and reply to Kick's post on X with the video. A bounty can also require your VOD to stay public.

Who can enter. The bounty terms set no age, so Kick's terms of service apply: nobody under 13, and under 18 only with a parent or guardian's consent. A bounty can ask for more: Beat Max required 18+. Kick and partner staff, their families and banned accounts are excluded. No countries are listed, but cash bounties exclude residents of places where cash prizes from skill contests are prohibited or restricted.

Kick Bounties rewards and payout: what you actually get

• Gifted subs on 38 of the 62 entries, all creator bounties, lately 100 subs to each of 5 winners. Kick's help says that if you are not an Affiliate, you may get a KICK Shop gift card instead.
• KICKs on 16, all viewer clip bounties: 10,000 KICKs to each of 5 winners. Kick's KICKs Usage Policy says KICKs "are not currency and have no cash or redemption value": you can send them to streamers, not cash them out. Their price is in how much KICKs are worth.
• Cash on 5: the four Beat Max listings, US$100,000 shared by the top 100 (US$25,000 for first, US$100 each for places 51 to 100), and the developer bounty.
• Other: two KICK Shop codes ($60 and $300) and a pick of jerseys.

How and when it is paid. Kick contacts the winners. If one cannot be reached within 3 business days, or misses Kick's deadline for details, Kick can choose someone else. Cash goes by bank transfer or another method Kick picks, only on skill modes and never on a Chance draw, and winners have 14 days to send identity, payment and tax documents. Kick can swap a reward for KICKs or something similar, tax is the winner's, and no delivery time is published.

Note: Kick's help guide still lists only subs and gift cards. The board itself pays KICKs and has paid cash.

Are Kick Bounties legit? Yes. The fakes are the risk

Yes. It sits on Kick's own domain, under Kick's own terms, and is described in Kick's help center. The terms call the contests "free to enter" and say "No purchase is necessary to enter or win." Every closed bounty on the log except Beat Max is marked claimed, with the winner's name or the number of winners shown.

A common worry is that nobody wins or the draws are rigged. Kick says Chance winners are drawn at random from checked entries and announced on @KickCommunity on X or r/KickStreaming, but it publishes no entry counts or draw records.

The real risk is copies:

• The address is bounties.kick.com. Any other site is not Kick's board.
• Not on the board, not a Kick Bounty. Every bounty has its own page there.
• Check any "you won" message against Kick's public announcement. One about a bounty you never entered is a scam.
• No step asks for your password or a fee. Cash winners send documents after winning, never money.

As the FTC puts it: "If you have to pay to get your prize, it's a scam. Real prizes are free."

Do you get paid to clip on Kick? Not per clip

No, not in general. Kick's clip guide (updated 15 June 2026) covers making, downloading and sharing clips and says nothing about paying viewers. Its revenue page (updated 27 August 2026) describes Bounties as opportunities "where KICK or brand partners pay Streamers for clips". So Kick's only clip money is the bounty prize, which for viewers has meant a draw for KICKs.

Pay per view comes from elsewhere:

• Clipping campaigns. A streamer or brand pays per 1,000 views on the clips you post. On our Clip Rewards list on 21 October 2026, the 99 pay per view campaigns paid a median of $1 per 1,000 views, from $0.20 to $15. One named a Kick streamer: Brenduh Kick Stream Clipping, by Clipping Nest, at $0.40 per 1,000 views on a $2,000 budget. At that rate 20,000 views earn $8 before fees: arithmetic, not a promise.
• The streamer's own program. Some streamers pay clippers directly.

More in how to make money clipping. Posting someone's stream on your own pages needs their permission or a campaign's rules: see how to get permission to clip a streamer.

Where ReelShift fits for Kick clippers

ReelShift does not enter bounties for you, and its clips are not Kick clip links, so a bounty entry is still a clip you make on Kick. What it adds is speed: add any public Kick channel and it follows what the streamer says, the loud stretches and, on game streams, the kills and wins on screen. Vertical clips with word synced captions reach your library within minutes, while the stream is still live: a head start on campaigns that reward the first good clip, and a pointer to where a bounty moment just happened. Creator is $24.99 a month for 1 channel and Agency $199.99 for 10, with a 7 day free trial (1 channel, 5 streaming hours, card required, nothing charged today). See ReelShift for clippers.