Overlap for Advertisers

AI Video Clipping for Advertisers

Turn the video you already have into short-form clips that run organically on accounts your brand owns, billed per thousand delivered views against a ceiling you set. The same clips can be exported as creative for your paid campaigns.

    Campaign performance dashboard with impressions, spend, budget, and a podcast clip
    How It Runs

    Three inputs, then it runs.

    Connect the brand’s accounts, set what a clip may and may not say, and choose the monthly ceiling. Cutting, captioning, publishing and reporting happen from there.

    Step 01

    Link the brand’s accounts

    Connect the accounts the campaign publishes to across the nine platforms we support — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Snapchat and Bluesky. Each one stays dedicated to your brand.

    Connected accounts
    • TikTok@yourbrandConnected
    • Instagram@yourbrandConnected
    • YouTube@yourbrandConnected
    + Add another account
    Step 02

    Set the brand rules

    Choose the visual system, caption style and post voice, and set what a clip may never say — an offer that has expired, a claim that needs substantiation, a market where the product is not sold. Anything off-brief is held for review.

    Brand kit
    youtube.com/@yourbrandScan
    • Palette
    • Caption voiceDirect, no emoji
    • LogoBottom-left, every clip
    • Needs reviewAnything off-brief
    Step 03

    Define a budget

    Set the monthly ceiling and agree the CPM. Spend follows delivered views and never runs beyond the limit you chose.

    Monthly plan
    Ceiling$25,000CPM$1.50
    • Views delivered12,160,000
    • Spend$18,240
    Budget used73%
    Clipping for advertisers

    Organic reach and ad creative from one workflow

    An Overlap campaign publishes clips organically on the brand’s own accounts and bills delivered views; it does not buy ad placements. The same workflow can export clips for your paid team to test as creative in the ad platforms they already use.

    1. 01

      Start with the video you have

      Brand films, product demos, podcasts, webinars, event footage and long-form YouTube uploads. Connect the channel, feed or files, and new uploads enter the same workflow.

    2. 02

      Cut variations, not one edit

      Tell the agent which moments to find: a product benefit, a customer result, an objection answered. It reframes each one to vertical, adds captions and the brand kit, and returns several candidate clips from a single recording.

    3. 03

      Publish organically, export for paid

      Publish to the brand’s accounts on a schedule or after approval, and export any clip as a file for the paid team. Overlap does not set ad targeting or buy placements; that stays in the ad platform.

    As seen onMy First Million

    See a finished podcast clip

    A short podcast excerpt explaining how Overlap finds moments, edits clips and prepares them to share. This is a finished clip exported from Overlap.

    Original episode moment
    40:52–41:23
    Finished clip
    32 seconds · 9:16 vertical video · captions

    A documented customer workflow

    iHeartMedia used Overlap clipping agents to turn its long-form show library into edited, formatted clips published across its social channels. The case study includes the workflow and channel results.

    The iHeartMedia clipping workflow in the Overlap editor, from source through editing to output
    Views generated to date
    600M
    Clips produced
    100K
    Editors hired
    0

    These are the results reported in this customer’s case study, not a forecast for a new campaign.

    Read the iHeartMedia workflow and results
    Watch the product walkthrough
    Silent screen recording of the Overlap editor. Use the video controls to pause or review a step.
    Retained Value

    Reach that does not end with the flight

    A paid flight stops the day the budget stops. An owned account does not: the handle, the followers and every post stay with the brand, and the posts stay live after billing ends.

    Side by side
    What the invoice is forOrganic views delivered · OverlapImpressions or clicks bought · Paid
    Where the reach landsAccounts the brand owns · OverlapPlacements the platform sells · Paid
    When it stopsPosts stay live on your handles · OverlapDelivery ends with the budget · Paid
    Cost of reach$0.50–$2.50 CPM · OverlapSet by the auction · Paid
    Who chooses the viewersThe platforms’ recommendation feeds · OverlapYour targeting settings · Paid

    Yours to test against

    Organic performance on every clip is a read on which moments hold attention before you put paid spend behind one.

    Yours to point anywhere

    Send viewers to a product page, an offer or a sign-up. The channel is the brand’s to aim.

    Yours to keep reaching

    Followers earned in one campaign see the next one. Every month compounds instead of restarting at zero.

    Yours to run either way

    Keep running with us, hand the accounts to your social team, or leave them live. The login goes with the brand.

    The Economics

    An ad buys impressions. This buys views.

    A media buy is priced by the auction and ends when the budget does. We price delivered organic views: a ceiling, a rate per thousand, and nothing charged for reach that never landed.

    Spend = delivered views ÷ 1,000 × agreed CPM

    Campaign Planner

    What your budget actually buys

    Views at that budget16.7MAt $1.50 CPM
    Estimated CPC$0.8330K estimated website visits

    A planning illustration: 6% of delivered views reach the profile, 3% of those continue to your site. Your ceiling and CPM are agreed with our team.

    Questions advertisers ask

    No. Clips are published organically on social accounts the brand owns, and nothing is boosted or bought. CPM is the billing unit for delivered views, not an ad placement, so a campaign runs beside paid campaigns rather than inside an ad platform.

    Overlap covers both sides of the job. Its agent turns long video into short, captioned vertical clips your paid team can export and test as ad creative, and its campaigns publish clips organically on accounts the brand owns, billed on delivered views. Overlap does not buy ad placements or set targeting; that stays in the ad platform.

    Yes, as exported files. Any workflow can end in an export rather than a post, so clips can go to your asset library or a download and be uploaded in the ad platform. There is no ad-buying connection, so targeting, budgets and placements stay with whoever runs the ad account.

    Yes. A workflow can hold every clip for approval or publish on its own schedule, and anything outside the brand rules is held for review rather than published.

    You set a monthly ceiling and agree a CPM between $0.50 and $2.50. Spend follows the views actually delivered and stops at the ceiling — there are no production fees, no minimum deliverables and nothing charged for reach that did not land.

    From the platforms’ own analytics on posts published to your accounts, which you can see for yourself in the same dashboards. Every view is organic — nothing is boosted or bought — and a clip that was never posted is never billed.

    You do, and nothing is switched off. The handles, the followers and every post published to them stay with the brand, the posts are not taken down when billing stops, and the accounts are never repurposed for another advertiser.