For Brands Running Clip Campaigns - OpenClip
For Growth Teams Funding Clipper Pools

OpenClip for Brands Running Clipping Campaigns

A pay-per-view budget with no creative floor buys reach and brand damage at the same time. The brands that get real results from clipping supply usable footage, ship a reference pack alongside the rules page, and judge the campaign on cost per verified view rather than raw impressions.

Industry: Marketing and Growth
Audience: Brand and growth teams funding clipping campaigns
Plan: Business

Pain Points

A pay-per-view budget with no creative floor buys you volume and brand risk in the same transaction, because clippers optimise for whatever clears the payout bar
Most clippers will not create source material, so if you do not supply footage they can actually cut, submission volume stalls in the first week
Rates near $1 per 1,000 views look cheap until you count the views that never verify, and effective cost per verified view is the only number worth reporting
Rules pages that are vague get exploited within days, and rules pages that are too strict kill submission volume before the campaign gets momentum
Attribution is uncomfortable: views are easy to count and downstream signups are not, so clipping campaigns get judged on the metric that happens to be visible

Build the Source Library Before You Fund the Pool

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Pick long-form assets you clearly own the rights to: podcasts, founder interviews, webinars, launch streams, product walkthroughs

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Run them through OpenClip's AI moment detection and review the ranked candidates rather than guessing which parts land

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Export approved moments at 9:16, plus 1:1 and 16:9 for placements outside vertical feeds

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Publish the pack as the campaign's approved footage, with a plain statement of what clippers may and may not re-cut

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Refresh it on a schedule, because a stale source library is why campaign submission volume decays in week three

Ship a Reference Pack With the Rules Page

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Render five example clips using the caption preset and framing you want submissions to match

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Write one line per example explaining why that hook works, so clippers copy the reasoning rather than the clip

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Specify aspect ratio, caption style and an acceptable clip length band in the rules page itself

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State clearly what will be rejected: unapproved footage, misleading claims, wrong placements, missing disclosure

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Keep the rules page stable once the campaign is live, since mid-campaign rule changes destroy trust with the pool faster than a low rate does

Review Submissions Against a Fixed Bar

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Assign one internal owner for clip approval instead of letting it float between people

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Approve or reject against the reference pack and the rules page, never against personal taste on the day

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Give the rejection reason in one line, so the clipper can fix it rather than resubmit the same mistake

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Track cost per verified view alongside any downstream signal you can honestly attribute

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Promote the clippers who consistently clear the bar into higher volume, and let the rest self-select out

Features

AI Viral Moment Detection

Turns founder interviews, podcasts and launch streams into ranked candidate moments, so your approved footage library is built from what actually hooks rather than what an internal reviewer liked.

Batch Processing

One upload produces a batch of clips, which is how a small growth team keeps a clipper pool supplied with fresh source material every week.

Reference Packs That Set the Bar

Render the exact clips you want submissions to resemble. Showing the standard beats describing it, and it cuts rejection volume immediately.

Ten Caption Presets

Word-level burned-in captions in a fixed house style, so campaign output stays recognisably yours across dozens of independent clippers.

9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 Exports

One approved moment exported for every placement your rules page might allow, without a second production pass.

Approved Footage, Clearly Bounded

Publishing a pre-cut moment pack makes it obvious what clippers may use, which is the cheapest way to reduce rights and brand-safety problems later.

Frequently Asked Questions

Campaigns are priced per 1,000 verified views, and the market broadly runs $0.20 to $6 with most activity near $1. Your real cost is the effective cost per verified view once unverified and rejected submissions are excluded, which is always higher than the headline rate. Budget the review time too, because an unmoderated campaign is cheap in cash and expensive in brand risk.

Fund a pool with a defined rate per 1,000 verified views, publish a rules page covering approved footage and what gets rejected, supply source material clippers can actually cut, and review submissions against a fixed bar. The two steps most brands skip are supplying usable footage and shipping reference examples, and those are exactly the two that decide submission quality.

Long-form material you unambiguously own: podcasts, founder or customer interviews, webinars, launch streams and product walkthroughs. Pre-cutting the strongest moments and publishing them as an approved pack works far better than dumping raw files, because it removes the scrubbing work and quietly enforces your rights boundaries.

They reliably drive views, and views convert only when the content carries a reason to act. Treat clipping as a top of funnel channel measured on cost per verified view, with any downstream signal tracked honestly rather than optimistically. Brands that expect direct response performance from entertainment clips are usually disappointed for predictable reasons.

Publish a reference pack showing what gets paid, keep the rules page specific and stable, and assign one internal owner for approvals. Clippers optimise for whatever clears the bar, so consistency in review is what actually raises quality. Changing the rules mid-campaign does the opposite and costs you the best clippers first.

Give the Pool Something Worth Clipping

Turn your long-form assets into an approved moment pack before the budget goes live. Upload a source video and OpenClip returns ranked, captioned, face-tracked clips ready to publish as the campaign standard.

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