r/CreatorEconomy

Hey everyone!

We’re looking to collaborate with content creators/influencers for a barter-based collaboration.

What we’re looking for:
•Creators on Instagram / YouTube / other platforms
•Open to lifestyle, fashion, beauty, fitness, tech, or relevant niches

Preferably creators with an engaged audience rather than just a high follower count
Both micro and mid-sized creators are welcome

What we’re offering:
•Free product in exchange for agreed content requirements are reel and story.
•This is a barter collaboration — no monetary payment for the standard collaboration.

If you’re interested, DM me to @atharvayeshwante on instagram with:
•Your Instagram/YouTube profile
•Follower count
•Average views/reach (if available)
•Your niche
•Any previous brand collaborations

If the audience and content fit, we can discuss the deliverables and product/service details privately.

Creators of all sizes are welcome — engagement and content quality matter more than follower count.

Hi everyone, I’m doing some research into influencer marketing workflows and would love to hear from people who regularly work with influencers/creators.

When you’re looking for influencers for a campaign, what information do you usually need before deciding whether a profile is worth contacting?

For example:

• Followers / following
• Engagement rate
• Location / country / city
• Niche/category
• Audience demographics
• Email / phone / website
• Instagram / YouTube / TikTok / other platforms
• Average views, likes, comments, etc.
• Contact/creator availability
• Previous brand collaborations
• Pricing/rates
• Audience authenticity/fake followers
• Anything else?

I’m also curious about the repetitive parts of the workflow.

What do you repeatedly do manually when researching influencers that you wish could be automated?

For example:

• Finding creators matching specific criteria
• Filtering thousands of profiles
• Checking whether they have contact information
• Collecting creator details into Sheets/CRM
• Checking multiple social platforms for the same creator
• Comparing creators
• Finding similar creators
• Verifying engagement/audience quality
• Building outreach lists
• Tracking whether a creator has already been contacted
• Monitoring profile changes

If you work in influencer marketing, what’s the most annoying or time-consuming part of finding and managing creators?

Not looking to promote anything — genuinely interested in understanding the workflow from the marketer’s side.

As a Creator, I don’t trust Instagram anymore, it disabled my 280k follower account without any valid reason & no matter how much I try, I’m not able to get it back or even create a new account with the same mail or number. 🙄
I LOST ALL MY TRUST! And I feel many other creators also feel the same way! 🙂

I' ve been thinking about making anonymous aesthetic content but I doubt it would be profitable.

Is the market over saturated? Or are we consuming more content than ever anyway?

I'm working on a project to help real creators get discovered. If you were in my place - where would you look for creators? I've found some on reddit but mostly my posts have been met with a lot of suspicion from MODs and users alike. Most subs consider this advertisement, promotion etc. But i'm just trying to get my first few creators without sounding like spam or dm'ing the without permission. Would really like to know your inputs on this. For those who might want to know - it's basically a Creator Discovery Platform.

I’m looking to connect with talent managers, creator agency founders, and people who work directly with creators and would love some recommendations or introductions.

I’m a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® and wealth strategist who works specifically with content creators. I started Creator Money last year. I’ve been spending a lot of time talking with attorneys, accountants, managers, and others in the creator economy to better understand the financial challenges creators are running into as their businesses grow.

I’d love to connect with more talent managers and agency owners to learn what they’re seeing from their side and where a financial planner could actually be a helpful resource to their team and their creators.

If you work directly with creators, know someone I should talk to, or know an agency or manager, I’d love an introduction or recommendation.

I also host The Creator Money Show, so happy to promote the person/agency on my show if it makes sense as well.

Not looking to pitch anyone on a call, genuinely hoping to meet more people in the industry and learn from them.

Thanks!