If you run or participate in clipping/UGC campaigns, you've probably run into this: someone submits a "new" clip that's actually just a reupload from three months ago on a different account. Or a creator gets DM'd accusing them of "stealing" a video they made themselves, and has no way to prove they didn't.

Reverse image search exists for photos. There's never been a fast, reliable equivalent for video — until you actually need one, and then you realize you're stuck scrubbing through hashtags and hoping you recognize a frame.

A few things I've learned building in this space:

• Video hashing (not just captions/hashtags) is the only reliable way to catch a repost — text search misses re-edits, crops, and re-encodes

• The earliest "first seen" timestamp matters more than the match itself — that's what tells you who's the original poster

• Brands running clipping campaigns lose real money paying out for recycled content they think is fresh

Built ClipVerify to solve exactly this — paste a link or upload a video, it scans across TikTok, IG, YouTube, and X, and gives you a first-seen date + match confidence in seconds. Useful whether you're vetting submissions or just protecting your own content.

Curious if others here have run into this problem — how are you currently checking for reposts, if at all?