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# Glossary

Definitions for GIMI campaign types, rewards, review, analytics and creator network terms.

| Term                      | Meaning                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Approval bonus**        | A fixed reward credited when a brand approves a qualifying submission. Paid on sourcing and distribution campaigns.                                              |
| **Boost**                 | An optional feature a creator pays for from their earnings to move a submission up a busy review queue. Does not guarantee approval.                             |
| **Brand DNA**             | The profile of your brand the Campaign Agent builds from your URL: colours, claims, audience and tone of voice.                                                  |
| **Campaign**              | A briefed opportunity a brand publishes on GIMI. Three types: sourcing, distribution and contest.                                                                |
| **Campaign Agent**        | The tool that drafts a full campaign brief from your website or product URL.                                                                                     |
| **Campaign budget**       | The budget a brand sets on GIMI for its campaigns and creator rewards.                                                                                           |
| **Clean Engagement**      | Engagement that passes GIMI's quality and integrity checks. Performance pay is calculated on it.                                                                 |
| **Content Health**        | An overall view of the quality and integrity of campaign content and engagement.                                                                                 |
| **Content Library**       | The organization's store of approved campaign content.                                                                                                           |
| **Contest campaign**      | A campaign with a deadline and winners. Prizes can be ranked, category-based or finalist payouts.                                                                |
| **CPE**                   | Cost per Engagement.                                                                                                                                             |
| **CPM**                   | Cost per 1,000 eligible views or impressions.                                                                                                                    |
| **CPO**                   | Cost per Output: average cost of each deliverable, often an approved submission.                                                                                 |
| **CPV**                   | Cost per View.                                                                                                                                                   |
| **Creator network**       | All creators who have joined or interacted with your organization on GIMI.                                                                                       |
| **Creator partner**       | A creator a brand has tagged as a trusted collaborator. Shown as Creative Partner in some parts of the product.                                                  |
| **Culture Drive Index**   | A metric for whether content contributes to wider conversation, not only impressions.                                                                            |
| **Discover**              | GIMI's public campaign discovery area.                                                                                                                           |
| **Distribution campaign** | Creators publish on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, LinkedIn or Reddit and submit the link. GIMI tracks performance.                                    |
| **Earnings**              | The rewards a creator has earned for approved work, shown in US dollars. Can be paid out or used for optional features. Cannot be bought, transferred or traded. |
| **Finalists**             | A contest prize type: a fixed payout to a set number of creators.                                                                                                |
| **Flag**                  | A review action for inappropriate or high-risk content. Different from a decline.                                                                                |
| **Magic link**            | A tracked invite link to a private campaign.                                                                                                                     |
| **Max payout**            | The most one submission can earn on a campaign.                                                                                                                  |
| **Niche accounts**        | Social accounts built around one audience each, run for a brand and fed with its best creator content.                                                           |
| **Organization**          | The brand, agency or company account that runs campaigns, manages campaign budgets and owns the creator network.                                                 |
| **Performance pay**       | A reward based on eligible views or engagement, using the brand's rates and caps. Distribution campaigns only.                                                   |
| **Platform fee**          | The percentage GIMI charges on the campaign budget. It depends on the plan.                                                                                      |
| **Private campaign**      | A campaign limited to invited or approved creators.                                                                                                              |
| **Public campaign**       | A campaign open to eligible GIMI creators, optionally listed in Discover.                                                                                        |
| **Request Edit**          | A review action asking the creator to change something and resubmit.                                                                                             |
| **Review period**         | The 5 days a brand has to review a submission before it is approved automatically.                                                                               |
| **Reward pool**           | The total budget committed to creator rewards on a campaign.                                                                                                     |
| **Service credit**        | Unused campaign budget a brand can use on future GIMI campaigns. Has no cash value.                                                                              |
| **Shortlist**             | An internal save for later. Not an approval and does not pay.                                                                                                    |
| **Sourcing campaign**     | A campaign purely for content. Creators upload files and do not have to post. Paid with approval and Spotlight only.                                             |
| **Spotlight**             | A brand-awarded bonus for outstanding content, on top of approval.                                                                                               |
| **Submissions in review** | The maximum number of pending submissions a creator can hold at once.                                                                                            |
| **Suspicious content**    | A submission labelled by GIMI's automated signals for extra review. Not a finding of bad faith.                                                                  |
| **Viral Spread**          | How far campaign content travelled through sharing.                                                                                                              |
