Ainfluencer for Micro-Influencers

How brands see a micro-influencer

Brands do not scroll a feed of creators. They filter a search index and then read a card. Understanding the filters tells you which parts of your profile decide whether you are shown at all.

• The wizard that brands use to write a campaign has its own size buckets: Nano 5k to 10k, Micro 10k to 100k, Macro 100k to 1m and Mega over 1m. A campaign aimed at Micro therefore includes everyone from 10k to 100k.
• Reviewers cite a 5,000 follower minimum more than any other reason when they turn an account down, so a creator at 10k or above is comfortably past it.
• Only Active accounts appear in brand search. Draft, pending, suspended and archived accounts are left out, and so is any account without a linked profile and an email.
• Brands who search for a specific campaign do not see creators they already invited or who already sent an offer to it.

Make your profile do the searching for you

Each field in the media kit feeds either a filter or the card a brand reads before answering an offer. The fields worth the most effort are the ones brands cannot guess.

Keep your numbers current

• Instagram accounts are refreshed automatically once a month: followers, following, post count, picture and your latest ten posts. A full run takes days, so tap Sync (once every 24 hours) after a growth spike or a good post.
• YouTube syncs use your Google permission, and the app asks you to wait five minutes between syncs. If the permission was withdrawn, reconnect the channel.
• If a monthly run cannot find your profile, the account is archived and drops out of search. A rename causes it too. Tell support before you rename a handle, because only an admin restores an archived account.
• Your insights are saved on your profile and every brand that asks sees the latest set. When they are older than 60 days, the system may ask you for fresh ones about an hour after an offer, so refresh them before that.

Share your media kit outside the app

Every connected account has a public page at app.ainfluencer.com/public/profile followed by your account number. Use Share on the account card. It lists your audience, gallery, delivered content, reviews and the brands you worked with, and it counts a profile view for every visit. It is cached for up to 12 hours, so edits are not instant. Each platform account has its own link, and the page also lists your other connected accounts.

The setup steps themselves are in How to Join and Get Approved.

Price a deal so the numbers work

You propose the price, the brand accepts by paying it, and what you keep depends on three things: the price, how long the post stays up, and the fee taken at withdrawal.

The brand pays a separate platform fee on top of your price, so it never comes out of yours. The 20% is shown on the withdrawal screen before you confirm, it is frozen onto the request when you send it, and balances from before August 2025 are withdrawn with no fee. The offer card in chat estimates 80% of the price. Money moving through PayPal or a blockchain may carry that service’s own charges as well.

What belongs in the price

• The minimum offer is $10, and the form shows a suggested price for your account.
• The brand can counter with a different price, date, duration or bio link. You can accept, edit or reject, and either side can reopen a rejected offer.
• A coupon or platform credit the brand uses never reduces your price. Ainfluencer pays the discount.
• If your price is not the full story, ask in the chat before you send. Commission rates on affiliate campaigns cannot be negotiated in the app, only discussed with the brand.

Read a campaign before you offer

You only get one offer per campaign, so the few minutes you spend on the details page are the cheapest time in the whole deal.

• Before the form opens, the app checks in order: maintenance, whether your account is suspended or archived, whether you have a usable account, and whether a draft account needs finishing. A draft account sees a Complete profile prompt that returns you to the next media kit step.
• The brand’s profile lists its campaigns by type and its ongoing offers. Invite-only or paused campaigns show a restriction message instead of a form.
• The three dot menu lets you Report a campaign or Block the brand. Blocking removes the brand’s campaigns from your lists, and there is no unblock button.
• If a campaign you can see on a brand’s profile is missing from Explore, it is probably invite-only, paused, limited to another country or aimed at another platform.
• A campaign from a brand that is suspended, or one the brand paused, no longer takes offers.

Pitch so the right brands answer

You get one offer per campaign. Make it specific, because a brand reads a short pitch, your audience description and your past work, and nothing else.

• Use the Invited to tab first. A brand that invited you has already chosen you. Invitations arrive twice a day, at 06:00 and 18:00 UTC, in one grouped email and a push.
• An offer started from an invitation link in an email skips the campaign’s gender and location requirements. Offers started from inside the app go through them.
• On other tabs, work through My category, My country and For You before All. Campaigns that suit your account rank first.
• Your answers are saved and prefill your next offer, so spend the time once and edit it per brand.
• Contact details, links and handles are blocked in every text field. Describe your work in words.
• If your account is still pending, send offers anyway. They are held and delivered when you become Active.
• A brand that blocked you cannot receive offers from you, and you can block or report a brand from the campaign’s menu.

The Explore tabs and the offer form are covered step by step in How to Find Campaigns and Send Offers.

Stack three kinds of income

Paid deals, free products and commission pay at different speeds and through different systems, so a creator can run all three without them colliding.

• Paid: your wallet shows the full price, and the fee is taken only when you withdraw.
• Gifting: request the gift or accept an invitation, add an address, confirm receipt, post and submit the links. Open requests are cancelled by the system if you are suspended with no other Active account.
• Affiliate: Generate Link creates links for every product in the campaign. Your partnership is approved automatically, and each sale waits 35 days before the brand’s card is charged and your share goes to your Stripe account. A platform fee of 5% comes out of the commission by default.
• A product can sit in only one of your campaigns at a time. If you join a newer campaign with the same product, it moves there and your link stays the same.
• Connect Stripe before you promote anything: no Stripe account means no affiliate payment. Its country follows the phone number you verified on the Affiliate platform and cannot be changed later.
• Affiliate money never appears in your Ainfluencer wallet, so check both places before you decide you have not been paid.

Details are in How Gifting Works for Creators and How Affiliate Campaigns Work for You.

Turn one deal into repeat work

The strongest signal a brand reads is what other brands said and whether you delivered. Both are built by the way you run each deal.

• A brand’s private answer to would you work with them again? is never shown to you or published, so it is not something you can chase.
• If a review breaks the rules, send the details to support. Our team decides.
• A deal you delivered can reach the brand’s analytics only after it is approved, so approval also helps the brand see the results of working with you.

Run more than one account

One login can hold several Instagram, TikTok and YouTube accounts. They share a wallet and nothing else.

• Gift requests and affiliate links need the selected account to be Active. If your best account is pending, switch to the Active one first.
• A suspension on one account does not stop the others. Gifting requests are cancelled only when you have no other Active account.
• Each account has its own media kit, so tune each one to its platform’s audience.

Run your inbox like a working day

Every deal has a chat, and each chat is a thread inside a room for that brand. The tools in the Inbox are what keep a busy week organised.

• Filter the Inbox by status: Paid & Scheduled, Waiting Your Approval, Waiting Brand Approval, Published and Failed.
• Pin up to five rooms, and archive or unarchive a thread for your own view. This does not change what the brand sees.
• Save message templates for answers you send often, such as your usage rights or delivery schedule.
• Send a saved shipping address as an address card with the location pin. Set it once and use it with every brand.
• Attach files up to 50 MB from your phone. Videos in the chat show a still frame, and tapping opens the preview.
• You can react to a brand’s message with an emoji. Long messages are split automatically.
• A chat becomes read-only when the brand archived, deleted or blocked the offer, or when your own account is not Active. Unarchiving or reactivation restores it.
• Messages cannot be edited, deleted or searched yet, so reread before you send.

Choose what reaches you

In Account Settings, Notifications and Emails each category has an Email and a Push switch: campaign invitations, offer notifications, post publishing and deal updates, payments and wallet, admin requests, marketing, gifting campaigns and chat messages. On mobile the Push switch controls both phone push and the in-app list, and account notifications cannot be switched off. The Unsubscribe link in an email stops most emails at once and only staff can undo it, so prefer the switches.

Every Monday at 08:00 UTC you also get one email of new campaigns for you, despite the word daily in its subject, and invitation emails arrive at 06:00 and 18:00 UTC.

Plan your cash flow

Money moves in three separate waits. Knowing which one you are in saves you from chasing the wrong person.

• Time your withdrawal request just before the 1st or the 15th. A request on the 2nd waits for the 15th.
• You pick the deals to include, and one request is created per deal. There is no minimum amount, so small payouts are fine.
• A rejected request keeps the money in your wallet and puts the deal back in your list.
• You cannot cancel a request in the app. Ask support to have it rejected, which is also the fix for a wrong address on a request already sent.
• Keep one PayPal and one crypto method. Saving replaces the old one, and requests already sent keep the address they were sent with.
• A deal that shows Refunded Payment went back to the brand because it was not delivered or approved in time.

The detail is in How You Get Paid.

Protect the account you built

An account with real reach is worth more than any single deal. A few rules protect it.

• A temporary suspension has no end date. Tap Appeal Suspension, give your reason, watch the dos and don’ts and submit. You get one appeal per suspension, and a denied appeal is shown on the card with no notification.
• While suspended you cannot make offers, chat, or edit your profile, your offers are hidden from brands after 48 hours, and open gift requests can be cancelled for good.
• You can control emails and push in Account Settings, Notifications and Emails, per category. Account notifications are always on.

Questions micro-influencers ask

Do I need a large following?

No. Brands filter from 100 followers upward, and Micro sits at 10k to 100k. Reviewers most often decline accounts under about 5,000, so that is the practical floor to be approved.

How do brands find me?

Through search filters on followers, quality, category, hashtags, language, gender and location, and by inviting you to a campaign. Only Active accounts appear.

Why are my follower numbers out of date?

Instagram refreshes monthly. Tap Sync on your account card, once every 24 hours, to refresh now.

What should I charge?

The form shows a suggested price, and the minimum is $10. Decide the amount you need to receive, then divide by 0.8 to allow for the 20% fee at withdrawal.

Can I do paid deals and affiliate at the same time?

Yes. They run on different systems and pay separately: collaborations into your wallet, and affiliate commission through Stripe.

The brand has not approved my post.

Message them in the deal chat, because an unapproved deal ends in a refund to the brand roughly nine to ten days after a readable link is submitted.

Can brands see my insights?

Yes. Insights you upload are saved on your profile, and any brand that requests them sees the latest set.

How do I get reviews?

Deliver on time and communicate clearly. Brands can write a review after a deal, and our team approves it before it appears on your profile.