US$50 for 17 hours of video
First-person household-task video recorded by a gig worker in one week through the Atlas Capture app (Mecka AI), paid in a US-dollar stablecoin
Dated 9 Oct 2026Source checked 16 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“she had recorded 17 hours of video, for which Atlas Capture paid her US$50, about US$2.94 per hour, issued in cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- First-person household-chore video recorded on a smartphone through the Human Motion Data Recorder app (contributors largely in the Philippines), per approved hour
- Launched in April 2026 to fill one robotics company's need for 50,000 hours of egocentric video, the app had collected 38,000 hours from 3,900 contributors by mid-summer 2026, paying US$3 per approved hour.
What it is about
Figures it counts in
- $2.97 per hour of videoVideo and footage, paid to the people who make it, per hour of video