When you finish a campaign clip, you can post it two ways: let ClipAd upload it to your own YouTube channel for you, or post it yourself and paste the link. Either way, the post has to be provably yours before it counts.
Option A: auto-publish
- On a finished campaign clip in Campaigns, if you have connected YouTube you will see Publish to YouTube. If you connected for analytics only, click Enable auto-publish first to grant upload permission.
- Click Publish to YouTube. ClipAd uploads the rendered video to your channel and captures the post automatically, which proves it is yours.
This uploads to your own channel using the permission you grant — it is different from a brand posting for you. Note that until our app finishes Google's review, uploads may be set to private; that is a Google requirement, not a ClipAd limit.
Option B: post it yourself
- Post the finished clip on your channel as you normally would.
- On the campaign, click Post it myself (or Mark published) and paste the link to your published post.
- ClipAd checks that the post is on your connected account.
Why ownership matters
Your fee and any view counting only proceed once the post is confirmed as yours — whether by auto-publish or the ownership check on a pasted link. A link we cannot confirm will not release payment, so always publish from your own connected channel. After publishing, the brand and ClipAd verify the work and your earnings are released — see How to run a campaign from accept to payout.