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Influencer marketing guides

From first shortlist to final campaign report

Practical, evidence-backed guides to planning influencer campaigns, finding and vetting creators, running production, and measuring results.

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02Vetting

Complete Influencer Vetting Checklist

Check creator relevance, audience fit, content history, engagement, past sponsorships, and brand safety before you sign anything.

6 min read

03Outreach Instagram

How to Contact Creators on Instagram

Choose between Instagram’s contact button, published email, and message requests, then write a pitch that clears the filtered inbox.

6 min read

04Outreach Twitch

How to Contact Creators on Twitch

When to use a Twitch creator’s published email, management contact, or Whisper, and why live chat is the wrong place to pitch.

6 min read

05Outreach X

How to Contact Creators on X

The current X DM conditions, when verification matters, and how to route a creator partnership without making the pitch public.

6 min read

0110 guides

Strategy and campaign design

Set the goal, audience, channel mix, creator portfolio, budget, timeline, and partnership model before execution begins.

0212 guides

Creator discovery and audience fit

Find relevant creators and evaluate audience demographics, psychographics, geography, language, context, and uncertainty.

0310 guides

Creator vetting and brand safety

Review content, engagement, suspicious signals, sponsorships, safety, conflicts, evidence quality, and incomplete data.

0418 guides

Contact research and outreach

Find legitimate contact routes and reach creators through email, Instagram, X, TikTok, Twitch, Discord, managers, and agents.

0512 guides

Rates, negotiation, agents, and contracts

Price complete partnerships and handle negotiation, representatives, rights, exclusivity, amplification, remedies, and payment.

0610 guides

Briefing and creative production

Write useful briefs, protect creator voice, design calls to action, run approvals, manage revisions, clear rights, and repurpose content.

0710 guides

Campaign operations and relationships

Coordinate stages, schedules, onboarding, deliverables, shipping, communications, long-term partners, and global execution.

0812 guides

Tracking, measurement, and optimization

Track content, links, codes, reach, engagement, conversion, ROI, brand lift, reporting, and fair performance comparisons.

0910 guides

Disclosure, platform policy, and responsible practice

Operate responsibly across disclosure, platform policies, commercial email, minors, regulated categories, and creator-data privacy.

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