This is how you go from browsing the marketplace to being an active participant on a campaign — discover something that fits, apply, get approved, and e-sign the contract to unlock your campaign workspace.

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The path from browse to joined

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Discover campaigns in the Marketplace

Open the Marketplace to browse a grid of available campaigns. Each card shows the brand, the campaign title, its target platforms, an estimated monthly pay, how many days are left, and how many creators have already applied. Search by campaign or brand name, and filter by platform (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube). If your profile has enough signal — connected handles, content categories, or video types — a For You tab ranks campaigns by how well they fit you and shows a colored fit-percentage chip on matching cards. Otherwise you’ll just see the All tab.
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Open the campaign detail page

Tap a card to see the full campaign: the brand’s info and website, the brief, specific requirements, target platforms, start and end dates, the audience target, the video cap (how many videos you can submit per day or week), and a payout breakdown with an estimated monthly pay. A status badge in the header always reflects where you stand with this campaign, and the main button changes to match.
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Apply to the campaign

If you haven’t applied yet, the main button reads Apply to Campaign. Tapping it submits your application instantly. For most campaigns your status becomes Applied (Pending Review). Some campaigns are set to auto-approve, in which case you skip straight to Approved.
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Wait for the brand to review

While you’re Applied, the detail page shows Application under review and you can’t take further action until the brand decides. You can keep an eye on it under My Campaigns → Applications, where the card shows Pending Review and the date you applied.
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Get approved

When the brand approves you, your status becomes Approved and the campaign moves to Contract Pending. A congratulations modal celebrates the approval and points you to sign, and the main button changes to Review & Sign Contract.
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Review & sign the contract

On the contract page, read the full contract in full. To sign, enter your full legal name and check the box agreeing the contract is legally binding, then tap Sign Contract. Your name previews on the document as you type, so you can see exactly how it will appear.
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Get your referral code and enter the workspace

After signing, a welcome dialog confirms You’re in and reveals your personal referral code — copy it to earn $20 each time a creator you refer gets approved for any campaign. Closing the dialog takes you into the campaign workspace, where you’ll complete the setup guide before unlocking your scripts, submissions, analytics, and settlement.

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The Marketplace

The Marketplace is your browse-and-discover surface — a searchable, filterable grid of every campaign open to you. Each card gives you the quick facts at a glance: the brand, the title, the target platforms, an estimated monthly pay, how many days are left to apply, and how many creators have already applied. You can search by campaign or brand name and filter by platform, and results are paginated at the bottom.
Campaigns you’re already part of are hidden from the Marketplace. Once you apply to a campaign, it disappears from the grid — find it again under My Campaigns → Applications, not back in the Marketplace.

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For You vs. All

When your profile has enough signal — connected handles, content categories, or the video types you make — a For You tab appears and ranks campaigns by how well they match you, with a colored fit-percentage chip on the cards. If your profile doesn’t have that signal yet, you’ll simply see the All tab. Filling out your profile is the way to unlock For You.
Estimated monthly pay (shown as ~$X/mo) is exactly that — an estimate based on the campaign’s video cap and payout tiers, not a guaranteed amount. For the full picture of how views become money, see how tracking & payouts work.

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Private campaigns

Not every campaign is public. Private campaigns require a valid access code, which is normally carried inside the link the brand shared with you. Without it, the campaign can’t be opened or applied to. Once you open a private campaign through its access-code link, you apply just like any other campaign.
If a private campaign opens with a dropped or invalid access code, you may see a Campaign Not Found or Invalid Link message; reopen the original link the brand sent you to fix it.

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Tracking your campaigns

The My Campaigns view keeps everything you’ve engaged with in one place, across two tabs with live counts:
  • Active — campaigns you’ve signed, grouped into Ready to Start, In Progress, and Completed.
  • Applications — campaigns you’ve applied to (Pending Review) and ones you’ve been approved for (with a Sign Contract button).
This is where you’ll go to pick up an approved campaign you haven’t signed yet, or to jump back into the workspace of one you have.

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The statuses you’ll see

A campaign’s status — shown as a badge on the detail page and used to label cards in My Campaigns — tells you exactly where you stand and what to do next.
StatusWhat it means
Not appliedYou haven’t engaged with this campaign yet. The button reads Apply to Campaign.
Applied (Pending Review)Your application is in and waiting on the brand. Shown as Application under review — you can’t act further until they decide.
Approved (Contract Pending)The brand accepted you. Review and sign the contract before you can start; the button becomes Review & Sign Contract.
SignedYou’ve signed and the campaign is active. You’re taken to the workspace, and it appears under My Campaigns → Active.
Once a campaign is Signed and Active, its card also reflects how far along your content is: Ready to Start (no content created yet), In Progress (at least one submission still in flight), or Completed (all your submissions published).

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Signing the contract

Before you can create for a campaign, you e-sign its contract. The contract page shows the full agreement as a document, with your name previewed in place of the creator-name placeholder as you type. To sign, enter your full legal name, check the box agreeing the contract is legally binding, and tap Sign Contract. After signing, the page shows a Contract Completed confirmation with your signer name and the signed date, and you can download the signed contract as a PDF at any time.
The contract is legally binding once signed, and the name you type appears on it — so read it fully before you enter your name and agree.

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Rejecting a contract

If a campaign isn’t right for you, you can Reject contract on the same page instead of signing. Rejecting requires a written reason of 50–500 characters, which is shared with the brand.
Rejecting a contract is final for that campaign — to join again, you’d have to start over with the brand’s approval.

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Leaving a campaign

Only approved (not-yet-signed) or signed creators can withdraw from a campaign, and doing so also requires a written reason of 50–500 characters that’s shared with the brand. You can’t withdraw a still-pending application this way — until the brand decides, your application simply waits.

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Questions creators ask

Once you apply, the campaign is removed from the Marketplace grid. Find it again under My Campaigns → Applications, where it shows Pending Review until the brand decides.
For You only appears once your profile has enough signal — connected handles, content categories, or the video types you make. Until then you’ll just see the All tab. Filling out your profile unlocks the fit ranking and the fit-percentage chips.
No — ~$X/mo is an estimate based on the campaign’s video cap and payout tiers, not a guaranteed amount. What you actually earn depends on your videos’ views. See how tracking & payouts work.
No. Rejecting a contract is final for that campaign — you’d have to start over with the brand’s approval before you can join again. Reject only when you’re sure.
Not from the campaign page. Only approved-but-unsigned or signed participation can be left, and leaving needs a written reason of 50–500 characters. A pending application simply waits for the brand’s decision.
It’s your personal code, revealed once you sign your first contract. Share it, and you earn $20 whenever a creator you refer gets approved for any campaign.

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Next steps

Submitting content

Now that you’ve joined, create your videos, get them approved, and add your published links.

Earnings & getting paid

Watch your views turn into a withdrawable balance and cash out through Stripe.

How tracking & payouts work

The exact rules behind views, accrual, payout groups, and settlement.

Creator overview

The big picture of how creating on NewWave works, end to end.