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Budget ProtectionHow we screen every clip for bot views
Here's the uncomfortable truth about clipper networks: wherever there's a budget, someone will try to game it with bought views. So we built a sensor that watches every submission and scores how likely it is to be organic. Fake engagement gets caught, the creator doesn't get paid, and your money stays in the campaign.
The five rules
🛡️ Bot confidence score
Every clip gets a 0 to 100 score. Low means the traffic pattern looks human. High means we dig in, and high enough means it's rejected outright.
📈 2% to 4% like ratio or better
That's the floor, not the target. A clip needs at least a 2% to 4% like-to-view ratio to qualify for payout and the strongest performers sit well above it. Half a million views with 200 likes isn't an audience, it's a purchase.
⚔️ The floor is the deterrent
Cheap view bots are easy to buy. Convincing engagement at a believable ratio is not. Forcing that threshold means a botter has to spend more faking it than the payout is worth, so they burn their own money, get rejected anyway, and stop trying.
👀 Manual review on flags
Anything the sensor flags, especially high-view videos, goes to a human admin before a single dollar moves.
💰 You don't pay for fakes
Rejected submissions earn $0. That budget goes back into real placements instead of lining a botter's pocket.
What this looks like on our end
Real submissions from a recent campaign. Track and artist names are withheld for client privacy.
| Verdict | Platform | Views | Likes | Comments | Bot score | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approved | TikTok | 1,100,000 | 49,300 | 311 | 20 | $35.00 |
| Permanently rejected | 339,475 | 223 | 0 | 93 | $0.00 | |
| Rejected | 296,101 | 12,184 | 37 | 99 | $0.00 |
Why each one landed where it did
- Approved, score 20. Strong engagement across the board, low bot score, real comment activity. 49,300 likes on 1.1M views is a 4.5% ratio, comfortably above the floor. The creator gets paid.
- Permanently rejected, score 93. 339K views and 223 likes is a 0.07% ratio with zero comments. Nobody actually watched this.
- Rejected, score 99. The ratio looked passable, but the growth curve spiked in a pattern real audiences don't produce. Flagged at 99 and pulled before payout. This is the case the ratio alone would have missed, which is why the score exists alongside it.
Most agencies quietly count bot views toward your total and bill you for them. We'd rather show you the 3,675 clips we refused to pay for, because that's the number that tells you where your budget actually went.
Common questions
How do you detect bot views on a music promotion campaign?
Every submission gets a bot confidence score from 0 to 100 based on its traffic pattern. A low score means the engagement behaves like a real audience. A high score means we look closer, and a high enough score means the submission is rejected outright. On top of the score, every clip has to clear a 2% to 4% like-to-view ratio or better, and anything the system flags goes to a human admin before any money moves.
What is the minimum like-to-view ratio for a clip to get paid?
A clip needs at least a 2% to 4% like-to-view ratio to qualify for payout. That is the floor, not the target, and the strongest performers sit well above it. Half a million views with 200 likes is not an audience, it is a purchase.
Why does a like ratio floor stop people buying bot views?
Cheap view bots are easy to buy, but convincing engagement at a believable ratio is not. Forcing that threshold means a botter has to spend more faking it than the payout is worth, so they burn their own money, get rejected anyway, and stop trying. The floor is the deterrent.
What happens to the budget when a clip is rejected?
Rejected submissions earn $0. That money stays in the campaign and goes back into real placements instead of paying a botter. You are never billed for a clip that failed screening.
How many submissions actually get rejected?
Across 8,839 clips reviewed, 5,164 were approved and paid and 3,675 were rejected and not paid. That is about 4 in 10 clips that never reach payout.
Why do I see obvious bot videos on the public sound page then?
A public sound page shows every video that has ever used that audio, which is not the same list as the clips we paid for. Once a track gets traction, random accounts pile onto the sound by themselves and some people try to farm the campaign with bought views. Those clips earned nothing. If you spot a video with 300,000 views and 40 likes, that is a stranger who wasted their own time. It never came out of anyone's budget and it never counted toward the numbers we report.