CPQV in three modes: budget, CPM gap, podcast.

CPM is cost per 1,000 raw views, regardless of whether anyone watched. CPV (CPQV) is cost per qualified view: only views passing watch-time, policy, geo, and traffic checks count. The denominators are different by 2-3 orders of magnitude.

Advertiser demand differs across markets. US and EU watch is priced higher than SEA. Long-form YouTube has higher CPV than vertical shorts because completion rates and audience intent differ.

No, it's folded in. The estimate already subtracts the 8% operational fee from the budget so the qualified-view total reflects what actually reaches clipper distribution. For larger retainers, the fee can be negotiated down.

Sandbox-tier brands get unspent budget refunded if the qualified-view floor isn't hit. Retainer engagements are governed by the contract: typically a make-good plus reset on the qualification rule.

The calculator estimates a fresh campaign. If you're running existing assets through clippers, expect 10-20% higher qualification rate (assets are vetted) and faster time-to-live.

Median across the FORKOFF ledger: single-geo + 1-2 platforms typically goes live in 24-36h. Multi-geo or full-platform spreads take 36-48h because clipper routing fills more pools.

The cpvBase numbers update quarterly from ledger averages. The model itself runs on the latest figures every page load.

$1,000 for 14 days is the sandbox tier. Below that, the qualification engine doesn't have enough volume to reliably hit calibrated CPV. We recommend the sandbox as the first commit before scaling.

Six-figure monthly retainers are standard. Single-campaign spends above $250K/month run with split-tested geo cohorts and contracted CPQV floors. Talk to a strategist for those.

Yes. Submit the calculator form with an email and you receive a branded HTML breakdown including the inputs, the headline outputs, scenario comparisons, and a strategist follow-up window. The crew also gets a Slack notification.

Yes. If you select a geo and our brief acceptance rules exclude part of it, the estimate accounts for the exclusion before showing qualified views. A strategist confirms the exact exclusion list at brief lock.

Switch to the compare mode of the consolidated calculator at /tools/cpqv-calculator?mode=compare. Same geo/platform/budget inputs, both denominators side-by-side with the same campaign assumptions.

It rolls up the (geo × platform) cells into a weighted average where the weight is the typical traffic share of each cell. The result reflects the blended CPV your campaign would actually see, not a per-cell median.

Counter-intuitively, no. Adding platforms widens the routing pool but also slows the first-clip-live ship time because more clippers are queued. The sweet spot is 2-3 platforms for under 36h, 4+ for 36-48h.

Twitch and Discord are not in the model. They require custom retainer engagements. The calculator covers TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and X / Twitter. Together they cover the four platforms that account for ~95% of FORKOFF volume.

The published 99.71% legitimacy rate, 5B+ qualified views, and per-view reason codes all come from the same append-only export brand-side legal teams use for treasury and listing-partner review. Available on request via a strategist call.

It doesn't account for creative quality (some brands get better assets so qualify higher), it doesn't predict conversion (qualified view is a watch metric, not a click or signup), and it doesn't price in retainer-tier discounts (those happen in the contract, not the model).

Industry research and competitor disclosures. Marketplace clipping typically runs 25-45% legit. FORKOFF runs 99.71% on its ledger because filtered traffic is excluded by design at the qualification gate, not after the fact.

It is the rolling ledger average across 5B+ qualified views. Specific campaigns range 99.4-99.9% depending on the brief. The qualification engine writes a reason code on every filtered view, so the rate is auditable.

Yes for any operator that prices on raw view counts. DIY tools like OpusClip, Vizard, Klap do not fit because they are tool subscriptions, not view-priced. See /vs-opusclip for that comparison axis.

Test it. Run the campaign, sample 1,000 random views with a third-party verification tool, count how many pass watch-time, geo, and traffic checks. Most claimed legit rates collapse under audit.

MRC viewability checks whether the ad rendered on screen for at least 1 second with at least 50% pixels visible. FORKOFF qualified views check viewability AND watch-duration AND geo AND traffic validity. Stricter denominator.

Yes. The calculator takes any marketplace's CPM + an estimated legit rate. Run it 3-5 times across competitors, write down the effective CPQV each one produces, and you have a denominator-honest shortlist.

Two things: how much you actually paid per qualified outcome, and how much of your raw spend was filtered into rejection. The second number is the leakage your marketplace pricing was hiding.

Because honest CPQV math is the easiest way to see why managed clipping prices on outcomes, not impressions. The math is the wedge; the calculator just shows it.

FORKOFF prices podcast clipping per qualified view (CPQV) at $0.003 across most markets. A $5,000 sandbox campaign delivers roughly 1.6M qualified views routed to your show's ICP geos. Other operators price on flat retainers ($3,000-$15,000 / month) or raw CPM ($1-$8) where filtered views still count toward billing.

DIY tools (OpusClip, Vizard, Munch) cost $20-$80 / month flat. You provide the strategy, brief, clipper roster, qualification, and reporting. Agencies fold all of that in. FORKOFF's CPQV $0.003 means you pay for views that cleared the four-stage gate, not for the tool's monthly subscription regardless of distribution outcome.

ROI = (qualified views × value per view) ÷ campaign spend. Value per view depends on the show's primary KPI: pipeline (B2B founder pods), wishlist adds (consumer launches), discovery (network shows), or treasury narrative (web3 founder shows). The qualified-view denominator is what makes ROI defensible. raw views inflate the numerator and corrupt the math.

Per-clip pricing rewards the clipper for shipping volume. CPQV rewards the clipper for shipping clips that earn watch-through. Brand intent and clipper intent stay aligned on the qualified denominator, not on raw count.

Per-view CSV/JSON export with: clip ID, source episode, timestamp, platform, geo, watch-duration band, qualification verdict, reason code on filter, and clipper attribution. Finance reconciles against MMP records (AppsFlyer, Adjust) for consumer-app clients and against treasury reporting for web3 clients.

48 hours for sandbox-tier campaigns. Larger retainers run a separate onboarding window (5-10 business days) covering brand-safety policy lockdown, episode back-catalog audit, and clipper-roster sourcing.

Back-catalog runs are typically 15-25% more cost-efficient at the qualification rate level because the show's narrative beats are already proven. New-episode runs require strategist-led beat selection per drop, which trades higher per-episode cost for fresher topical signal.

Higher qualification rate means more raw views convert to billed views, but billing is capped at the brief budget. So a campaign with 80% legitimacy on $5K spend bills $5K; a campaign with 35% legitimacy on $5K spend also bills $5K because filtered views are excluded. The legitimacy rate affects audit confidence and re-engagement targeting, not the bill amount.

No. Filtered traffic is logged with a reason code (sub-watch-time, geo-mismatch, sanctioned-region, traffic-validity flagged) and excluded from billing. Brands never pay for traffic that fails any qualification check.

It is not. Direct ad CPMs on premium podcast networks run $25-$60. FORKOFF CPQV at $0.003 is roughly $3 effective CPM on qualified views, about 10-20× more cost-efficient per attentive listener. The framing flips when you compare on the qualified-view denominator instead of raw impression CPM.