View Verification
The step between a view happening and that view being worth money. Nothing else in clipping decides your income as directly.
Definition
View verification is the process a clipping campaign uses to decide which views on a submitted clip are payable, by matching the submitted post link to the live public post and counting views that satisfy the campaign's conditions. Those conditions normally cover attribution (the post is genuinely yours and genuinely linked to the campaign), liveness (the post is public and readable at the time of checking) and timing (the view fell inside the campaign's tracking window). Campaigns also filter categories of views that platform analytics happily include, which is why a verified figure sitting below your lifetime view count is normal operation rather than evidence of a problem. The tracker's number governs payment in any dispute, so the only thing that has ever reversed a verification result is independent evidence such as timestamped platform analytics screenshots covering the same date range. Verification runs continuously rather than once, meaning a post that stops being readable partway through a window can stop earning even after it has already accumulated views.
Related Terms
Features
Attribution First
Verification starts by proving the post is yours and connected to the campaign. A broken account link turns a strong clip into an unpayable one.
Timing Decides Eligibility
Counting is bounded by the campaign's window, so identical clips posted hours apart can verify at very different totals.
The Post Must Stay Readable
Going private, deleting or heavily editing a submitted post can break verification mid-window and stop earnings regardless of prior performance.
Evidence Beats Argument
Timestamped analytics screenshots at fixed intervals are the only thing that reliably supports a dispute, and they cannot be recreated later.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Not Let Editing Delay the Clock
Verification usually starts once the post is live and submitted, so every hour in an export queue is an hour of unpaid views. OpenClip renders the whole batch at once.