This is one of the most important sentences in this entire course: your contest wins and bonuses from those wins stay 100 percent yours.

An agency takes commission on the deals the agency closed. That includes brand deals the agency negotiated, merch revenue the agency produced, private content funnels the agency built, tips and revenue earned while streaming, and platform incentive revenue the agency negotiated.

This is the carve-out clause. Every agency contract should have one. If the contract says the agency takes commission on all revenue including contest win bonuses, do not sign. If the contract is silent on the carve-out, ask for it explicitly before signing.

The reason this matters: the agency is supposed to add revenue, not skim revenue you generate from working extra hard. The carve-out is what enforces that distinction in writing.