Built around the people who make this work.
This category has a lot of bad actors. We win by showing the mechanism — every policy, every protection, and every commitment we make to the people who submit their footage. And we hold our own in-house capture to exactly the same standard.
Know exactly how you're paid
Every campaign shows the pay model, the rate, and the timing before you submit a single frame. Hourly, per submission, CPM, or per licensed minute — all stated upfront, all backed by a funded budget.
Real people review every submission
No automated accept-or-decline black box. Every submission is reviewed by a human against the campaign brief. Declines include a reason. Disputes go to a named reviewer, not a ticket queue.
You keep 100% ownership
Licensing is opt-in, time-boxed, and revocable. You choose which footage is submitted, you can remove it from future use at any time, and you retain full copyright. We never acquire perpetual rights without explicit, separately stated consent.
Clear requirements, set up front
Every campaign spells out exactly what to capture and how it will be used — in plain language you can read in seconds, before you record a thing. No vague briefs, no jargon, and nothing hidden until review.
Provenance travels with every asset
Delivered footage carries a provenance record — what consent was granted, on what platform, under what campaign terms. Buyers can't strip it. If a license is breached, there's a paper trail, not a he-said-she-said.
One standard across both supply sources
Whether footage comes from the creator marketplace or our in-house POD facility, it follows the same consent, licensing and provenance rules. No shortcut path and no lower bar for data we capture ourselves.
How your footage moves through the system
File uploads go directly to an encrypted S3 bucket. URL submissions are logged but never re-hosted. Neither path stores your footage longer than the review requires.
Submissions are checked against the brief: technical quality, content guidelines, and campaign requirements. Our data team reviews manually — no unsupervised model makes a final decision on what gets paid.
Only after approval and payout does the buyer receive the footage, under the campaign's stated license terms. Declined footage is deleted within 30 days. Nothing is transferred in advance or conditionally.
Delivered footage includes a provenance record: what consent was granted, on what platform, under what campaign terms. Buyers cannot strip this record. If they breach the license, we have a paper trail.
Every campaign is funded before it goes live. Rates are locked at submission — a buyer cannot retroactively lower the rate after you submit. Payout timing is stated per campaign and we publish our actual average payout time in the FAQ.
Straight answers
See something that shouldn't be here?
If you've encountered a campaign that misrepresents its use, a review decision that seems wrong, or any content that violates our policies, email us directly. We read every report.
trust@diffraction.agency