How to Use Crexa
Most people look at Crexa, see two options, and use the obvious one. This page is about the less obvious ones.
The one thing to understand first
Crexa gives you two tools, and picking the right one matters more than anything else here.
Campaigns pay for volume. You set a rate per view and a budget. Anyone approved can submit. You're buying reach, and you pay for what actually happens. Use this when you don't care who makes the clip — you care how many people see it.
The marketplace pays for a deliverable. You're hiring a specific person to do a specific thing at an agreed price. Payment releases when you confirm it's done. Use this when you care who does it, or when the arrangement is more complicated than dollars-per-view.
Almost every "can Crexa do X?" question resolves once you know which tool X belongs to.
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Running a campaign
Post your content, set a rate — $10 per 10,000 views, $1 per 100, whatever fits your budget — and fund it. Attach source files or a Drive link if you want clippers working from specific footage rather than finding their own moments.
Set rules that are actually checkable. "Make it good" gives clippers nothing. "Vertical, under 60 seconds, hook in the first 3 seconds, no music over the dialogue" gives them something to hit and gives you something to approve against.
You approve every clip. Only approved clips earn. Rejections require a reason, which is more useful than it sounds — clippers who get specific feedback resubmit better work.
Improve terms mid-campaign if it's not filling. You can raise your rate, add budget, extend the deadline, or add platforms at any point. You can't lower terms — that's deliberate. Clips already approved keep the rate they were approved at, so raising your rate never costs you retroactively.
Add budget any time. If a campaign is working, top it up rather than starting over.
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Clipping
Browse open bounties, pick ones matching platforms you're actually strong on, and read the rules before you cut anything. Post to your own account, then submit the link.
Your rate locks when your clip is approved. Nothing the creator does afterward changes what you earn.
Report views honestly. The creator confirms your numbers, and unusual growth gets flagged automatically for review. A flagged clip stops earning while it's looked at — though anything you already earned stays yours.
Set up payouts before you need them. Connecting your account takes a couple of minutes. Do it before you have money waiting.
Your reputation is the actual product. Trust score and ratings come from completed work on this platform, and they're what gets you into better campaigns.
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Selling services
Any account can list services. Price them yourself, describe exactly what a buyer gets, and be specific about turnaround.
The buyer sends a brief and pays upfront. You accept or decline. Every order has its own message thread. Payment releases when the buyer confirms delivery.
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Ideas people don't think of
Product plus cash. A brand sends a creator an actual product and pays a fee for a post about it. Run this as a marketplace listing, not a campaign — the brand is the buyer, the creator is the seller, and payment only releases when the brand confirms the post went up. If it never happens, the money never moves. This is the right structure for any barter or hybrid arrangement, and it's why the marketplace exists alongside campaigns.
A musician funding clips of a release. Set up a campaign around the video, the visualizer, or a live performance and let clippers cut hooks from it. Cheaper per view than almost any ad buy, and the clips live on real accounts instead of an ad slot.
A podcast guest funding clips of their own episode. You appeared on someone else's show. They're not going to clip it aggressively — you would. Fund a campaign on your own appearance.
Testing creative before you spend on ads. Run a small campaign, see which cuts actually travel, then put paid budget behind the angle that already proved itself organically.
Recruiting. Fund clips of your job posting or a day-in-the-life at your company. Reach is reach.
Local business, paid by result. A restaurant or shop pays per view instead of per flyer. Set the rate low, cap the budget, and you've bought a known maximum for an unknown-but-measured amount of attention.
Event promotion with a deadline. Set an end date before the event. Clippers know the window; you know the spend stops.
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A note on taking risks with people
Sending product to someone who hasn't posted yet is a real risk, and structuring it as a marketplace order removes most of it — you confirm before you pay.
What that doesn't cover is the product itself. If someone takes the glasses and ghosts, you're out the glasses. That's a judgment call, not a platform feature. Some things worth weighing: start with people whose trust score and ratings reflect real completed work, start small before you start expensive, and treat the first one with anybody as a test rather than a program.
Starting locally makes this easier, not harder. Reputation carries further in a real community than online.
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Getting paid, and getting charged
Campaign creators pay their budget plus a platform fee shown before payment. Your budget goes entirely to clippers.
Service sellers pay the fee out of their listed price. Your net is shown before you accept anything.
Everyone receiving money connects a payout account first. Taxes are yours — nothing is withheld.
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