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Creators vetted before the contract, not after.

Most brands have tried influencer marketing once, could not attribute it, and quietly stopped. The two fixes are unglamorous: vet the audience before signing, and tag every creator before anything publishes.

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stages

Goal-to-creator brief, discovery and audience-fit vetting, outreach and contracts, creative briefs, then tracking and scaling.

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free public tools

Engagement-rate, influencer-rate and earned-media-value calculators, plus a fake-follower check — no email required.

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platforms with distinct mechanics

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn, each with its own sub-service because the formats and rights differ.

Before signing
audience reports run

A third-party audience report on every shortlisted creator, ahead of any contract.

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What Influencer marketing is

This service finds, vets and partners with creators whose audiences match your buyers, then negotiates, briefs and contracts them so every collaboration is on-brand and measurable. It starts by translating a business goal into a creator brief — the exact audience, platforms, content formats and the KPI that will decide whether it worked — and ends with tracked links and codes per creator so the answer is a number rather than a feeling.

Vetting is where the money is saved. Every shortlisted creator gets a third-party audience report before a contract is signed, covering audience demographics and geography overlap with your buyers, engagement quality, brand-safety history and past sponsored performance. Fake followers show as engagement far outside the norm for the creator's size, comment quality that reads generated, and follower geography that does not match the content language.

Contracts cover rate, usage rights, exclusivity and timelines with disclosure requirements written in, and whitelisting or partnership ad rights negotiated up front rather than requested after a post performs. The roster is tiered deliberately: macro creators to anchor reach, a larger micro and nano pool to drive efficient, trackable conversions.

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What it does

From a business goal to a roster you can re-book with confidence.

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A goal-to-creator brief

The business goal translated into the exact audience, platforms, content formats and KPIs. Without it, discovery becomes follower-count shopping and the campaign is unattributable from the start.

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Vetting with third-party audience data

A shortlist where each creator carries the reason they fit: audience demographics, geographic overlap with your buyers, engagement quality, brand-safety history and past sponsored performance — verified independently rather than taken from a media kit.

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Negotiation and contracts

Rates, usage rights, exclusivity and timelines locked into contracts with disclosure requirements built in — so the rights you will want for paid amplification exist before the post that earns them.

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Per-creator creative briefs

Hooks, talking points, must-says, do-nots and a CTA, with a review-and-revision loop. Enough structure to stay on-brand, enough freedom that the post still sounds like the creator.

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Whitelisting and partnership ads

Rights to run the creator's content as an ad from their own handle, negotiated up front — which is what lets a winning organic post become paid reach instead of a one-day spike.

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Tracking, tiering and payouts

Tracking links, promo codes and UTMs per creator, a tiered roster of macro for reach and micro and nano for efficient conversion, and Afflio available for one-link sharing, real-time attribution and automated payouts.

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How it runs

Gigde's own five stages.

  1. Goal-to-creator brief

    What the campaign is for, who it must reach, on which platforms, in what formats, judged on what number. This is the document everything downstream is checked against.

  2. Discovery and audience-fit vetting

    Shortlist, then verify: audience overlap, engagement authenticity, brand safety and past sponsored performance, with a third-party report on each before anyone is contracted.

  3. Outreach, negotiation and contracts

    Rates, usage rights, exclusivity and timelines agreed and written down, with disclosure obligations included rather than assumed.

  4. Creative briefs and approval

    Per-creator briefs and a review loop that protects claims and disclosures without flattening the creator's voice — the thing that makes sponsored content underperform.

  5. Track, then scale the winners

    Per-creator links and codes from the first post, whitelisting on what performs, and re-booking decisions made on measured results rather than on who was pleasant to work with.

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Who it is for

Consumer and B2B brands already active where creators are, and usually on their second attempt.

Marketing managers and brand managers

DTC and consumer brands running creator activity that produced content but no attributable result. The fix is tracking before launch and vetting before signing.

Heads of growth

Teams treating creators as a performance channel rather than a brand one, where micro and nano creators with tracked codes carry the conversion load and macro creators carry the reach.

E-commerce managers

Brands where the creator post has to lead to a purchase this month, and where affiliate mechanics and automated payouts matter as much as the creative.

B2B marketers on LinkedIn

Executive and employee advocacy and creator partnerships on LinkedIn, where the format, the disclosure norms and the audience expectations are all different from consumer platforms.

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What it does not do

What we will not claim, and what belongs elsewhere.

  • We cannot guarantee a campaign goes viral. Reach depends on platform distribution nobody controls, and any agency promising it is selling something else.
  • Running a multi-creator campaign end to end — timelines, approvals, launch sequencing, the master tracker — is a separate operations service rather than part of discovery. Campaign management →
  • Buying the media behind creator content is a paid-media discipline, even when the creative comes from a creator. PPC & performance →
  • Always-on brand social and community management between campaigns is a different rhythm and a different team. Social media marketing →
  • Earned editorial press coverage is not bought creator content, and conflating the two is how disclosure obligations get missed. Digital PR →
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Answers

How do you spot fake followers?

Engagement far outside the norm for the creator's size in either direction, comments that read as generated, follower geography that does not match the content language, and spikes in follower growth with no corresponding content. A third-party audience report checks all of it before a contract.

Micro or macro creators?

For most performance-driven campaigns, a tiered roster: macro creators to anchor reach and credibility, and a larger pool of micro and nano creators to drive efficient, trackable conversions. Choosing one tier only is usually a budgeting decision rather than a strategic one.

Do you handle contracts and disclosure?

Yes — outreach, negotiation, creative briefs, contracts and disclosure requirements are all in scope, with usage rights and exclusivity settled before anything is filmed.

Why did our last campaign look flat?

Usually one of two things. Attribution was never instrumented, so the results existed but could not be seen; or the creators were chosen on follower count rather than audience overlap, so the reach was real and the audience was wrong.

What is whitelisting, and why negotiate it early?

It is permission to run the creator's content as an ad from their own handle. Negotiated up front it costs little; requested after a post performs, it costs whatever the creator now knows it is worth.

Who owns the content afterwards?

Whatever the contract says — which is why usage rights and their duration are negotiated at the start. A rights-cleared library you can reuse in paid media is often worth more than the original post.