# Campaigns

> Themed contests: eligibility, submission, voting and rewards.

Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/campaigns
Language: en

A campaign is a time-limited themed contest created by Reverie. Approved creators enter their own public characters or stories, any player can enter their own shared chats or scene snapshots, entries are reviewed, sometimes voted on, and ranked entries are paid in platform credits. Campaigns are created by admins only — you enter them, you do not run them.

Find them at **Campaigns** in the main menu. Each campaign page has **Introduction**, **Rules**, **Rewards** and **Entries** tabs, and that page is the source of truth for its dates, eligibility and reward tiers.

## Lifecycle \[#lifecycle]

| Phase         | What it means                                          |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Upcoming**  | Announced, not yet open                                |
| **Active**    | Accepting submissions, between the start and end dates |
| **Judging**   | Closed to new entries, results not yet announced       |
| **Completed** | Results announced and rewards settled                  |

The phase follows the campaign's own dates and whether results have been announced, so a label can take a short while to catch up with a deadline that has just passed. Submissions are only accepted while a campaign is both published and active.

## Who can enter \[#who-can-enter]

A campaign accepts any mix of four entry types, and its page says which:

| Entry type       | Who can enter it     | What counts as public                                                                                                 |
| ---------------- | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Characters**   | Approved creators    | Published as public                                                                                                   |
| **Stories**      | Approved creators    | Published as public                                                                                                   |
| **Shared chats** | Any signed-in player | Shared with **Public Share**, so it appears in [Memories](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/sharing-a-conversation) |
| **Snapshots**    | Any signed-in player | A [scene snapshot](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/snapshots) you published                                      |

* You may only submit **your own** works.
* A shared chat must be a conversation you had on Reverie yourself, not one imported from someone else's share or from a file. A conversation counts once, together with the branches forked from it, however many links you made of it.
* The work must be **public**. Drafts, unlisted and private works, link-only shares and private snapshots cannot be entered, and neither can anything moderation has taken down.

A campaign can also set its own requirements: character age range, allowed genders, required tags or categories, a minimum description length, whether NSFW is allowed, a minimum account age, or verified-creator status. Story campaigns can additionally require tags, categories, a minimum bio length or a minimum number of chapters.

For shared chats and snapshots only two of these apply: the NSFW setting and the minimum account age. A shared chat counts as NSFW when its character is, and a snapshot when its character or the chat it came from is.

The submission picker shows ineligible works with the reason instead of hiding them.

## Submitting \[#submitting]

### Read the campaign page \[#read-the-campaign-page]

Eligibility, deadlines, the voting rules and the exact reward tiers are all on it. Most disqualifications are a missed requirement, not a judgement call.

### Pick your works \[#pick-your-works]

You can select up to **20 works in one submission**, and a campaign may also cap how many entries one person may have in total, across every entry type — anywhere from 1 to 100. Duplicates in the same submission are refused.

### Add a note to reviewers \[#add-a-note-to-reviewers]

Optional, up to **200 characters**. Use it to say how the work fits the theme.

### Submit \[#submit]

The whole selection is submitted together: either every selected work is accepted, or none of them is.

## Review and voting \[#review-and-voting]

Entries land as pending and are approved or rejected by reviewers, unless the campaign approves entries automatically. A full copy of the work is stored at submission; if an approved work later changes materially, it goes back for review, and the copy stays part of campaign history even if you edit or remove the live work afterwards. A shared chat or snapshot that is made private, deleted or taken down stops being eligible.

When voting is enabled:

* Any signed-in user can vote, on approved entries only.
* One vote per entry per person, and a person may vote for several entries.
* You cannot vote for your own entry.
* Voting runs from the campaign start until the voting deadline, and closes for good once results are announced.

Votes are one input to ranking, not the ranking itself. Reviewers can also weigh fit with the theme, the quality of the work, activity the entry gained after submission, and any judging criteria the campaign states.

## Rewards \[#rewards]

**Campaign rewards are platform credits.** A reward tier is a rank range, a label and a credit amount. A campaign can define up to 20 tiers, they may not overlap, and each tier is worth between 1 and 1,000,000 credits.

Results can only be announced after the end date and the voting cutoff, every ranked entry must be covered by a tier, and payout is refused outright if it is not — so a rank can never be announced without its reward defined.

> Do not assume cash, cryptocurrency, badges, featured placement or a spotlight. None of those are things a campaign can award. A campaign with no credit tiers may still rank winners under the label **External reward**, which means the organiser settles something by hand and the campaign page has to say what.

Entrants get an in-app notification once rewards have settled. Each of your entries also shows the activity it gained since you submitted it: conversations and views for a character, plays for a story, likes for a shared chat. Snapshots have no counter.

## Withdrawing an entry \[#withdrawing-an-entry]

You can withdraw an entry while it is pending or after it was rejected, and at any time if the campaign is cancelled. You cannot withdraw an approved entry once the campaign has moved into judging or completed, and an entry that has been rewarded can never be withdrawn.

## Related \[#related]

* [Becoming a creator](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/becoming-a-creator) — entering characters and stories needs approval
* [Sharing a conversation](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/sharing-a-conversation) — how a chat becomes a public share
* [Scene snapshots](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/snapshots) — taking and publishing one
* [Revenue streams](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/revenue-streams) — how campaign credits sit beside your other earnings
* [Publishing a character](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/publishing) — entries must be public
* [Bounties](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/bounties) — the other credit-funded challenge format