Pictory
Pictory turns scripts, blog posts, URLs and long recordings into short videos using AI voices, auto-captions, avatars and stock footage.
- AI
- video
What it is
Pictory turns scripts, blog posts, URLs and long recordings into short videos using AI voices, auto-captions, avatars and stock footage. Marketers, course creators and social media managers use it to produce video without an editing suite. It sells monthly and annual subscriptions and has a free tier to start on.
The deal
This program changed materially in May 2026. It used to pay a share of every renewal; it now pays once, on a referral’s first payment, and nothing afterwards. Sales-led and B2B transactions were excluded at the same time. Worth knowing before you rely on older write-ups quoting a tiered recurring structure: those tiers are gone. One inconsistency in their own document is that the payment section still carries the old wording about earning for the life of the subscription, which contradicts both the signup page and the changelog entry that removed it. Treat it as a first-payment program. Attribution is decided by Pictory’s internal systems where those disagree with the tracking software. Qualified creators can also be offered extras on top: free Pro access, AI credits and paid sponsorship deals.
Getting paid
Nothing is paid out until your second valid paying referral, so a single sale earns you nothing on its own. A commission becomes eligible 30 days after Pictory has cleared the customer’s funds, then goes out at the start of the following month, which in practice means a sale in early July pays around the start of September. If a customer cancels and is refunded, commission is recalculated on net revenue. PayPal is the default; bank transfer is only unlocked at a four-figure accrued balance with tax forms filed.
The rules
You must drive at least one new sale every 90 days or the account is terminated automatically. One partner account per person. Self-referrals are not paid and are detected automatically. Paid search is the sharpest edge here: bidding on Pictory’s name, misspellings, or coupon, discount, promo and deal variants, using them in ad copy or display URLs, direct-linking from an ad, or outranking Pictory in positions one to five all breach the terms, and they state a no-tolerance policy with a minimum 30-day forfeiture and a balance reset to zero. Paid campaigns may only use graphics from the dashboard. Forwarded domains and subdomains must not contain the Pictory name. No spam of any kind.
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