Your footage,
your proof,
fair payout
Veriscope Lens seals what proves your footage is real - timestamp and device fingerprint - and nothing that gives you away. No precise location data, and your account can run under a pseudonym.
Then you get paid when your footage is licensed - no negotiating, no chasing invoices.
From your camera to a paid license - three steps
Capture
Record on Veriscope Lens. Your footage is sealed with proof of authenticity the instant you hit record.
Get discovered
Your footage appears on the Heatmap, searchable by buyers filtering for location, date, or keyword. No pitching, no cold outreach - the footage itself does the introducing.
Get paid directly
A buyer licenses your footage and payment lands with you directly in the same flow.
The Veriscope Lens capture interface seals footage with proof of authenticity the moment you record.
Social platforms strip your metadata the moment you post - losing your proof, and your leverage to get paid. Veriscope Lens locks it in before that ever happens, so the footage you captured stays provably yours no matter where it travels next.
Designed with your safety in mind
Eyewitness journalism can put people at risk. Veriscope Lens is built so that the proof of authenticity does not become a proof of identity. Your account can operate under a pseudonym, and the metadata we seal is deliberately narrow: timestamp and a device-specific optical fingerprint - never precise triangulated location data. Newsrooms verify what your footage shows; they don't automatically learn who or where you are.
Read more about what actually gets sealed on the How It Works page.
What "fair payout" actually means
Newsrooms licence your footage directly through Veriscope. You keep the majority share of every licence - Veriscope takes a small cut to run the protocol - with the split shown up front before any sale, and each licence paid out on its own rather than pooled into a diluted royalty.
No middleman agency
Newsrooms licence from you directly - Veriscope only takes a small platform cut.
Split shown up front
You see the licence fee and your share before the sale - nothing renegotiated after the fact.
Paid every licence
One clip can be licensed by multiple newsrooms; each licence pays out separately.
What eyewitnesses ask us
What is eyewitness journalism?
Eyewitness journalism is reporting built on firsthand footage or accounts from people who were actually there when news happened - not press or professional camera crews. Eyewitness footage authentication is what makes that footage usable: proof of when, where and how it was captured.
Am I an eyewitness?
If you captured something happening in front of you - an event, an incident, a moment as it unfolded - you're an eyewitness.
Can I remain anonymous?
Yes. Your account can operate under a pseudonym and stay anonymous. We deliberately don't capture precise triangulated location data; for an eyewitness, that level of detail can be dangerous rather than useful.
Can I still post to social media too?
Yes. Posting to Instagram, TikTok or X costs you nothing here - Veriscope Lens isn't exclusive. The difference is that social platforms strip your metadata on upload, so once your clip is re-shared you have no way to prove it was yours or that it's real. Capturing on Veriscope Lens keeps the sealed chain of custody stored with the clip, so you can post wherever you like and still license the footage later with its proof intact.
Test the Veriscope Lens
Test the solution as an eyewitness, newsroom, independent journalist, or fact-checking organisation.