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Influencer Marketing MCP Server: Search for Creators from Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor
The first MCP server for influencer marketing. Search 5M+ creators from Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor with natural language. Step-by-step setup guide.
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Curated guide hubs that pull together everything we've written on each part of running influencer marketing.
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Influencer Marketing for AI Agents & Developers
Creator intelligence as an API, an MCP server, and a set of Apify actors — with working code for the agents and pipelines that call them.
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Influencer Marketing Strategy
The decisions that make or break a creator program — what to pay, how to structure deals, and which partnerships to keep.
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How to Find Influencers
Finding the right creators is the hardest part of influencer marketing. These guides break it down niche by niche.
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How to Start Influencer Marketing
The first campaign is where most brands waste money. These guides cover the fundamentals that keep it from happening.
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Influencer Marketing by Industry
How influencer marketing works differently across verticals — with dedicated guides for each industry.
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Strategy, examples, and operating notes for creator teams.
How We Let AI Agents Pay for a Creator Data API: x402, MPP, and API Keys (2026)
The practitioner version of agentic payments for an API. The three rails (API key, x402, MPP), the real 402 handshake, per-call economics nobody publishes, and when each rail is the right call, from the team that shipped all three and wrote the x402 Fastify adapter.
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How to Build an Automated Influencer Marketing Pipeline with Claude Code (with working code, 2026)
A real tutorial for building an automated influencer pipeline in Claude Code. Working SDK code at every step: discovery, vetting, lookalike expansion, outreach with a human gate, content monitoring, and the honest read on agentic payments.
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The Real Lessons From Coachella 2026's Best Brand Activations
WeArisma tracked $1.7B in earned media at Coachella 2026. The brands that won didn't buy the most reach — they built the most efficient creator mechanics. Four shifts explain what changed, and what brand teams should do for 2027.
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Raw Instagram Post Lookup and Video Transcripts
Two new features on the raw Instagram side of the API: post lookup and video transcript extraction, with batch endpoints for each. Transcript responses include the full post payload.
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Influship Adds x402 and MPP Support for Agentic Creator Intelligence
AI agents can now discover and pay for Influship API requests directly over HTTP — supporting both x402 and the Machine Payments Protocol on the same endpoints.
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YouTube Transcript API: 4 Ways to Pull Captions in 2026 (with code)
Four real ways to pull YouTube transcripts in 2026, with working code for each, real per-1k costs, and the failure modes that show up in production but never in the README.
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How to Write an Influencer Brief (With a Template You Can Steal)
A practical guide to writing influencer briefs creators read and follow. Seven sections every brief needs, a worked example for a TikTok supplement campaign, a copy-paste template, and what to leave out.
Elliot PadfieldInfluencer Marketing Statistics: 50+ Data Points for 2026
50+ data points on the influencer marketing industry: market size, creator rates from real transaction data, platform performance benchmarks, ROI metrics, and where brands are spending.
Elliot PadfieldHow to Find Influencers on Instagram (2026 Guide)
5 methods to find Instagram influencers ranked by effectiveness, with engagement rate benchmarks by tier, fake follower red flags, and platform-specific considerations for Reels, Stories, and Partnership Ads.
Elliot PadfieldNano Influencer Marketing: The Complete Guide for 2026
Nano influencers (1K-10K followers) deliver 4-6x the engagement of macro creators at a fraction of the cost. How to find them, what to pay, and how to run a nano program at scale.
Elliot PadfieldInfluencer Whitelisting: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Pay
Whitelisting lets brands run paid ads through a creator's handle. How it works on Instagram and TikTok, what it costs (20-25% of base rate per month), and the contract clauses you need.
Elliot PadfieldHow to Build a Brand Ambassador Program (Step-by-Step Guide)
Step-by-step guide to building a brand ambassador program. Covers compensation models, onboarding, content expectations, and measurement. With real examples from Lululemon, Gymshark, and Red Bull.
Elliot PadfieldHow to Write an Influencer Contract That Protects Both Sides
Every clause your influencer contract needs, with actual contract language you can copy. Covers the 4 usage rights tiers, AI protection, mutual morals clauses, and how terms affect pricing.
Elliot PadfieldHow to Detect Fake Followers
A DTC skincare brand paid $8,000 for a campaign with an influencer who had 200,000 followers. The content looked great. The engagement seemed normal. But sales were nearly zero.
Elliot PadfieldFTC Influencer Marketing Guidelines (2026)
A skincare brand ran what they thought was a clean influencer program. Contracts in place. Disclosures required. Everything by the book. Then the FTC came calling.
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Influencer Marketing for Music: What Works
68% of social media users discover new music through short-form video. That stat explains why every music marketer now talks about influencer campaigns.
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How Much to Pay Influencers (2026 Guide)
A DTC brand I work with budgeted $5,000 for five micro-influencer posts. Clean math: $1,000 per creator, five pieces of content, done. Final invoice: $11,400.
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Influencer Gifting Emails: 5 Templates
Most product gifting emails get ignored because they ask for something. The typical outreach reads like a transaction, and creators can spot it instantly.
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Your Influencer's "50K Followers" Might Mean 1 Sale
50,000 followers sounds impressive on a pitch deck. But run the numbers and you're looking at maybe 1,000 people who actually engage, 20 who click, and 1 who buys.
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When to End an Influencer Partnership
A DTC skincare brand I know fired their best-performing influencer after one campaign. The posts got decent engagement but zero attributed sales.
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Why Your Influencer Outreach Gets Ignored
A creator with 50K followers gets 20-50 brand pitches per week. Yours has about 3 seconds to stand out before it gets archived or deleted.
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Influencer Marketing Pricing (Updated for 2026)
One influencer charges $200 while another charges $20,000 - there's a reason for that. Influencer rates are highly variable.
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The Death of Lazy Influencer Marketing
Is influencer marketing dead? No - and it's not even sick. What is dying are one-off #ad posts, follower-count obsessions, and vanity metrics.
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Best Influencer Marketing Tools (2026)
Feature-shopping is why most influencer marketing tools become expensive shelfware. Teams compare platforms by counting capabilities.
Elliot PadfieldMacro vs Micro Influencers: How to Decide
Search 'macro vs micro influencers' and you'll find the same article fifty times. The real decision comes down to measurable economics rather than surface-level metrics.
Elliot PadfieldHow to Find Influencers for Your Brand
Most brands approach influencer discovery backwards. They start with follower counts and wonder why campaigns underperform. Here's the systematic approach that works.
Elliot PadfieldPlatform Comparison 2026: Modash vs Influship
Every platform claims to do discovery, campaign management, and analytics. Here's an honest breakdown of what each actually does well — and who they're really built for.
Elliot PadfieldInstagram Influencer Search API (2026)
If you're looking for programmatic access to Instagram influencer data, most of what calls itself an "influencer API" isn't really an API. Here's what's actually available.
Elliot PadfieldInfluencer Marketing APIs: 2026 Guide
The phrase "API access" represents perhaps the most misused terminology within influencer marketing software.
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