Frequently Asked Questions

A micro influencer platform is a digital marketplace that connects brands with influencers who have a smaller, yet highly engaged, follower base. These platforms streamline the process of discovering, collaborating, and managing partnerships with micro influencers, typically defined as those with between 1,000 to 100,000 followers. By leveraging the authenticity and niche appeal of these influencers, brands can effectively reach targeted audiences, fostering genuine connections and driving meaningful engagement. Micro influencer platforms offer tools for campaign management, performance tracking, and analytics, enabling brands to optimize their influencer marketing strategies and achieve measurable results. Statusphere's platform goes a step further, offering end-to-end automation in the place of tools.

Statusphere is a platform that connects brands with micro and nano influencers. Creators join by completing a profile, and Statusphere matches them with personalized collaboration opportunities based on their preferences.

Statusphere uses its proprietary influencer matchmaking technology to connect brands with micro-influencers whose demographics, interests, lifestyle factors and buying preferences align with the brand's products and goals. This matchmaking technology learns over time, improving the brand's creator matches from one campaign to the next.

Oh, we are not a database! Our platform only matches brands with influencers from our vetted creator network, plus creators that brands upload to our platform (which can be done instantly via CSV upload).

The key difference between Statusphere and #paid is how they save brands time and help them scale content. Below are Statusphere's features that do exactly and how those features compare to #paid.

Built-In UGC Ad Codes
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Over the past year, we’ve seen an 80% increase of brands running campaigns with the goal of repurposing their influencer content in ads. That’s why we built instant TikTok Spark Ads and Instagram Partnership Ad codes into Statusphere. We also recently launched TikTok Shop links for creators, too.

Contrast this with platforms like #paid which have no native influencer whitelisting features or integrations with TikTok Shop.

With #paid, brands are on the hook to message influencers themselves to negotiate and exchange ad codes. With Statupshere, brands can purchase UGC ad codes for TikTok and Instagram directly from creators in the platform in just two clicks.

While both platforms have built-in UGC usage rights, Statusphere’s process for running UGC ads involves no negotiation or back-and-forth with creators. That means you scale your influencer ads ASAP without having to wait for approval.

Guaranteed Influencer Posts
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Again, Statusphere and #paid are two of the few creator platforms that don’t use third-party influencer databases to match brands and creators.

But Statusphere goes a step further by offering Guaranteed Post campaigns to brands.

Through our matchmaking algorithm and vetted network, Statusphere can guarantee a 100% post rate for brands that select these types of campaigns.

Translation? You get the exact number of posts you pay for based on your guidelines with no surprises. Contrast this with #paid’s self-proclaimed average 90% post rate with gifting.

Statusphere offers brands the option to run pure seeding campaigns, get guaranteed posts or a combination of both. This gives brands flexibility depending on their goals.

Product Fulfillment with Guaranteed Delivery
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Another key difference between #paid and Statusphere is how fulfillment is handled.

With Statusphere, the process is fully managed by our own fulfillment team and is part of your campaigns by default.

Our fulfillment technology runs the entire shipping process from A to Z, meaning that brands don’t have to juggle shipments or message creators.  We can also personalize shipments that include special packaging, inserts or handwritten notes.

All claimed products from Statusphere ship within 48 hours with automatic tracking updates. This makes it easier for creators to build your content into their schedules.

And since shipping information is up-to-date in our platform and handled by our team, we can guarantee delivery creators which is crucial for product seeding campaigns.

Automated Influencer Campaign Management

‍Unlike #paid, Statusphere’s platform doesn’t require brands to manage one-on-one communications with creators or coordinate campaigns themselves. This is a big distinction.

Statusphere's campaign management process is totally hands-off once you’ve input key information about your products, target influencers and creative brief. That’s because our matchmaking algorithm and automation tools get to work as soon as you hit “publish.”

‍As a result, the hour or two you spend completing your campaign to-do list saves you hundreds of hours on fulfillment, follow-ups and managing creators per month.

‍Meanwhile, influencer marketing campaigns with #paid require manual oversight for tasks like approving both content and creators. Not to mention managing communication. This is a huge slowdown for brands that truly want to get always-on influencer content at scale.

Likewise, brands can message creators one-on-one or use mass messaging to follow up with creators who didn’t fulfill their creative requirements.  On the flip side, Statuspheres’ influencer relations team handles any potential issue or dispute with creators so you don’t have to.

Statusphere makes it possible for brands to collaborate with 100s of creators each month on an ongoing basis. Many of our brands run always-on influencer campaigns featuring 1000s of creators over time.

Let’s take a quick look at the features that Statusphere and #paid share which set them apart from other influencer marketing tools.

Opt-In Creator Network

Both tools are unique among influencer platforms as both have their own opt-in creator networks where influencers are vetted. Contrast this with most #paid alternatives that offer brands access to an unvetted database of “millions of influencers.”

Emphasis on Micro-Influencers Collabs

Both platforms likewise emphasize micro-influencer and nano-influencer collabs rather than macro-influencers or celebrity creators. Statusphere and #paid both help brands that want authentic content from everyday consumers versus perfectly polished posts.

Owned Warehouse for Product Fulfillment

Also, #paid and Statusphere are two of the very few influencer platforms with their own dedicated warehouses for product fulfillment.

The distinction between them is that Statusphere’s fulfillment technology is built-in to all campaigns, while brands using #paid have to add fulfillment for a fee or do it themselves.