You’re most likely acquainted with BuzzFeed’s notorious quizzes and lists, or “listicles.”
Ah, the quizzes. You’ve received your character quizzes (Are You a Higher Canine or Cat Proprietor?), your popular culture quizzes (Which Kanye Quote Drives You Loopy?), your film quizzes (Which Mad Max Character Tugs on Your Heartstrings?) and your science quizzes (What Do You Know About Neutrinos?).
Perhaps you’ve thought to your self, “I might do this. I might provide you with a kind of.”
Effectively, now’s your probability — and you will get paid for it, too. BuzzFeed simply kicked off its Winter 2023 Writers’ Challenge, in which you’ll be able to earn payouts of as much as $1,500 by contributing quizzes and lists to BuzzFeed.
The extra pageviews your quiz will get, the extra money you win. The competition began Jan. 1 and runs by means of Feb. 28.
To get pageviews (also referred to as readers), your put up will have to be chosen by BuzzFeed’s editors for promotion on the positioning and on social media. To be chosen, it’ll want to suit BuzzFeed’s “editorial voice” — in different phrases, your work must look and sound like it might seem on BuzzFeed.
For instance, listed below are some quizzes and listicles written by members of BuzzFeed’s on-line neighborhood that just lately received promoted on the positioning:
- Which Teen Titans Character Are You?
- Let’s See Which Quick Meals Restaurant Matches Your Character
- This Breakfast Sandwich Quiz Will Completely Reveal Which Nationwide Park You Ought to Go to Subsequent
- These Are A number of the Least Recognizable World Flags — Can You Match Them to Their Dwelling Nations?
You get the concept.
In case your quiz or checklist attracts 150,000 pageviews, you earn $100. If it will get 250,000 clicks, you earn $300. For 500,000 clicks, you earn $500. And in case your put up actually goes viral and attracts 1,000,000 readers, you earn $1,500. (Take it from us, getting 1,000,000 pageviews is hard.)
But when your quiz tanks, you don’t get something. Them’s the breaks on this harsh on-line world.
BuzzFeed has guides for making quizzes and lists. Oh, and you’ve got to enroll in a BuzzFeed Community account to submit a put up.
So in case you’ve ever needed to be the brains behind a BuzzFeed quiz like “Let’s See How Effectively You Know These Disney Canines,” now’s your probability to shine.
Ceaselessly Requested Questions (FAQ)
Can I Hold Monitor of My Pageviews?
Sure. You possibly can observe your stats on a dashboard that you possibly can view when logged in.
How Will I Know If I’ve Earned Something?
BuzzFeed will contact you on the e-mail handle you gave while you signed up for a neighborhood account. Pageviews shall be counted till March 14. Winners will get their payouts by March 20.
Can I Submit Extra Than One Quiz?
Sure. Any put up that doesn’t violate the positioning’s neighborhood guidelines shall be thought-about.
What Standards Is the Web site Utilizing to Decide Entries?
The location usually chooses entries to advertise in the event that they examine no less than one among these containers:
- Suits in with traits of what’s performing properly on the positioning
- Options originality and cleverness in voice, body or subject
- Fills a content material hole that the web site’s employees isn’t already writing about
Mike Brassfield ([email protected]) is a senior author at The PNW.