You brief the farm. We run the season.
Two people touch The Clip Farm: the client who wants views, and the clippers who grow them. Neither installs anything. Here is the whole path for both.
Your side — the client's season
Reach out
Email hello@theclipfarm.com with what you are launching, roughly when, and the budget you are working with. We reply with a scoped proposal — model, rates, timeline.
We mark out the field
Budget, dates, required hashtags, payout model and eligibility rules, agreed with you up front. The rules render as a brief every clipper reads — the same rules the payout engine enforces.
We bring the crew
Clippers from our network — plus any you want folded in — get personal invite links and connect their accounts read-only. We handle outreach, onboarding and wrangling.
We take readings
Fresh statistics on a schedule, each one written as an append-only dated snapshot. Yield is measured from your campaign's start date, never from lifetime totals.
We hold the fence
Spend against budget is watched daily, with burn rate and runway. Your budget is a hard ceiling — one clip going viral can never quietly overspend it.
You settle from the report
At close you get the full ledger: every clip, what it earned and why, plus a payout run clean enough to hand to finance. Money moves on the rail agreed at kickoff.
The clipper's path
Get a link
A personal invite from our team, along with the campaign brief and rates.
Approve on the platform
The link opens TikTok's or Instagram's official consent screen, listing every permission requested. The password is entered on the platform's own site and is never visible to us.
Post as normal
Clips carrying the campaign hashtag, inside the window, are measured automatically. Nothing to submit, nothing to screenshot.
Leave whenever
Revoke from the platform's own settings, any time, without asking anyone. Revoking stops all future access immediately.
How yield is actually measured.
This is the part that decides what a clipper is paid and what a client is charged for, so it is worth being precise about.
Window yield, not lifetime
Payouts come from the change in views since the field opened — the baseline being the latest snapshot at or before the start date. A clip that already had a million views when the campaign started does not get paid for them.
Snapshots are append-only
A snapshot is never overwritten or edited. History only ever grows, which is what allows a season to be replayed day by day if a figure is ever questioned.
Accuracy tracks cadence
Each reading is one data point. We refresh on a schedule sized to the campaign, so the day-by-day picture stays sharp where it matters — around launch and settlement.
Gates run before payment
Follower minimums, per-clip view floors and ceilings, duration limits and hashtag requirements are applied first. Only clips that pass reach the payout allocation at all.
Figures come from each platform's official API and are only as accurate and current as that data. Platform numbers can lag or be restated. The Clip Farm's ledger is the measurement basis for the agreement between client and clipper — not an authoritative source of record.
Where the data goes
Clipper's browser ──▶ TikTok / Instagram consent screen
│ (clipper approves, on the platform's own site)
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theclipfarm.com/callback
│ parks a one-time authorisation code
│ for up to 15 minutes, then deletes it
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The Clip Farm operator machine
│ exchanges the code for a token
│ token encrypted in OS secure storage
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Platform API ──▶ posts + statistics
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Dated snapshot ──▶ payout calculation ──▶ your reportThere is no public Clip Farm database holding clipper data. The only hosted component is the relay that catches the redirect, and it never receives a token, a password, profile data or post data. More on security →