Frequently asked questions.

Yes — Obscure Exhibit takes a 7% platform fee from clipper payouts. The fee covers Stripe processing, organic-reach verification, and the engineering behind the campaign board.

Every seven days, on a rolling basis. Each verified submission clears its holding window and then settles into your Stripe-connected balance.

Yes. Once the campaign owner approves a submission and the 7-day verification window passes, the payout is routed automatically to the bank account you connected to Stripe.

Two common reasons: (1) you haven’t hit the campaign’s minimum-payout threshold yet, or (2) it has been less than seven days since your last payout cleared. Both conditions must be true before Stripe releases the transfer.

Yes. If you earned money while the campaign was live, those earnings remain claimable after the campaign closes. You won’t earn on new views once a campaign is over.

It’s the cap a brand places on a single clip’s earnings. Once your clip hits that ceiling, additional views won’t add to your payout for that submission.

Each campaign sets its own minimum — the smallest amount a single clip needs to earn before it’s eligible to be paid out. It’s shown on every campaign card.

Open your creator dashboard → Settings → Linked Accounts → Add Account, then authorize each platform (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook). Linking is what lets Obscure Exhibit verify your views are organic.

It connects your public social profile to your Obscure Exhibit account so we can pull view counts directly from each platform’s API and run them through organic-reach verification before any payout clears.

Yes — as long as every account you submit from is linked to your Obscure Exhibit profile.

No. Submissions must come from public profiles so view counts are externally verifiable. Private accounts will fail verification immediately.

No. Obscure Exhibit is open — sign up, link your accounts, and start submitting. There is no waitlist, no application, and no follower minimum.

Browse the campaign board, join a campaign that fits your style, follow its treatment, post your clip, and submit the link. Once your views clear organic-reach verification, your payout settles through Stripe.

Anyone with a public social account in a region the campaign supports. No follower count required, no prior posting history needed.

No. Payouts are tied to verified views, not follower count. Some campaigns specifically encourage smaller / newer accounts.

Sometimes. Some campaigns have geographic eligibility tied to the brand’s licensing or audience targeting. Each campaign card lists its region rules.

The Explore page — every live campaign with funded budget is listed there.

CPM is "cost per mille" — the dollar amount you earn per 1,000 verified views. Most music and entertainment campaigns price by CPM; per-post and milestone campaigns use different structures.

Join a campaign → link the account you posted from → open the campaign page → paste the URL into Submit Clip → confirm. The brand reviews from there.

There is no submission cap. You can submit as many qualifying clips as you make.

No. Only clips posted after you joined the campaign are eligible — this keeps brand treatments and asset usage rights aligned with the campaign window.

No. Each clip URL can only be submitted once, to one campaign.

Submit the correct one. Only approved clips earn, so the bad submission will simply be left unreviewed or rejected — it doesn’t cost you anything.

Common reasons: it broke the campaign’s creative guidelines, the audio/asset usage didn’t match the treatment, the clip failed organic-reach verification (botted views, click-farm patterns), or it contained content the brand flagged as inappropriate.

Flagging happens when our verification layer sees unusual signals — spikes that don’t match the platform baseline, traffic from suspect networks, etc. Flagged clips go through a manual review before being approved or rejected.

The campaign owner has received it but hasn’t reviewed it yet. Larger campaigns can take a few days to work through the queue.

It varies by brand. Most reviews land within 1–3 business days; high-volume campaigns can run longer.

Each campaign specifies its accepted platforms, picked from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube (including Shorts), X, and Facebook. The supported platforms are shown on each campaign card via their logos.

Yes — both YouTube long-form and YouTube Shorts are accepted under the YouTube platform filter when a campaign supports it.