X swaps engagement-bait payouts for a quality-based creator fund

X’s Original Content Rewards Program launches Sept. 8, replacing its 2023 revenue-share model that paid creators for impressions regardless of content quality. Media buyers and agents tell Digiday X still isn’t top of mind for creators despite the change.

Why it matters. Creators who relied on engagement-farming for payouts under the old impressions-based model now lose that revenue path unless their content qualifies as “original, high-quality.”

Signal from digiday.com · Alyssa Mercante · read the original.

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