There are A LOT of influencer platforms out there nowadays. It’s pretty much impossible to keep up with them all. Influencer platforms are generally a way for influencers to connect with brands, either by applying to brand opportunities or by being put in a pool of influencers that brands can choose to contact. I’ve compiled a list of the influencer platforms that I’ve been able to find. Some of these platforms require approval to join while others are open to anyone. I organized the platforms into a few categories, too—affiliate platforms, mobile platforms, application-based platforms, inactive platforms, and all the others. My favorite platforms are marked with a star (*)!
Know of a platform that’s not on the list or is no longer active? Shoot me an email and I’ll happily update the list!
Affiliate Platforms
Affiliate platforms are a tool usually used by bloggers and some content creators to share the products that they love and also make a little bit of profit when one of their followers purchases a product. This is generally done by creating a unique link for the influencer that allows the sale to be tracker back to them.
Awin
Beauty, Bloggers, Fashion, Health
A widely-used affiliate platform that allows online marketers to earn small commissions from over 20,000 advertisers (e.g. Etsy, ASOS).
*rewardStyle (LiketoKnow.it)
Beauty, Bloggers, Fashion
A competitive closed affiliate community for bloggers and Instagram influencers. They also have a popular app LiketoKnow.it that allows followers to shop directly from Instagram posts.
Need a referral? Send over an email with your name and blog or Instagram, and I’d be happy to refer you! Referrals improve your odds of being accepted into the rewardStyle program.
ShopStyle
Beauty, Bloggers, Fashion
An affiliate platform similar to rewardStyle mainly for bloggers. There is an application process to join ShopStyle, as well.
Application-based Platforms
I’m categorizing application-based platforms as the influencer platforms that allow the influencer to apply for specific opportunities with brands, rather than the brands selected influencers to contact. These types of platforms can be great for micro-influencers to have a chance to stand out through their application and lock down collaborations with brands that might otherwise have overlooked them.
*Activate
Beauty, Events, Health, Foodies, Travel
A platform that compiles opportunities from a few different media partners, including casting calls or event invitations. It’s free for anyone to join!
Ahalogy
Accessories, Bloggers, Foodies, Parents
A closed platform mainly for bloggers with many opportunities perfect for parents, home cooks, or lifestyle bloggers. Anyone can join, but a blog is required for some opportunities.
*AspireIQ
Beauty, Fashion, Health, Foodies, Parents, Travel
At the top of influencer platforms right now. You can apply to campaigns for a wide variety of brands such as L’Oréal, Reef, Rue 21, and many more. I’ve heard rumors of a waitlist.
Blog Meets Brand
Bloggers, Beauty, Health, Travel
A platform primarily for bloggers to apply to opportunities many around beauty, health, and travel. Anyone can join!
BrandBacker
Accessories, Beauty, Parents
A smaller application-based platform that usually only has one or two campaigns run at a time. Must request to join.
Brandbassador
Accessories, Fashion, Microinfluencers
A mobile-only platform turned web platform. Brands have tasks like shoutouts or referrals that can earn you cash, gift cards, and free products. Anyone can join!
Carro
Accessories, Beauty, Health, Parents
A new type of platform that allows you to shop on supported brand sites and directly request products you would like to feature on your Instagram. Anyone can join so far!
*Clever
Beauty, Bloggers, Health, Foodies, Parents, Travel
A platform that boasts high-paying social and blogger opportunities from top-tier brands. Must apply to join and be active on at least two social platforms.
*Glambassador
Accessories, Fashion, Health, Microinfluencers, Parents
A fairly unique influencer platform in that it allows brand new businesses and companies to search for influencers. Great for smaller influencers that are just starting out!
Grapevine
Accessories, Beauty, Foodies, Health
A platform that has campaigns influencers can apply to many in the health, home, and beauty niches. Apply to join!
*Heartbeat
Accessories, Beauty, Health, Microinfluencers, Parents
Easy for anyone to join and fun surveys and branding to keep you entertained! Rates are determined from an algorithm and are a bit lower than other platforms.
Influence.co
Accessories, Beauty, Health, Microinfluencers
Open to anyone to join and has quite a few campaigns despite their less-than-friendly interface. Great opportunities for just getting started!
Intellifluence
Beauty, Health, Foodies, Microinfluencers
A great starting network open to anyone. They have a wide range of home, health, and beauty products with many different types of campaigns to get involved with.
IZEA
Beauty, Health, Parents, Travel
A robust platform with a variety of social, blogger, and video campaigns. Able to set your own rates on some opportunities. Anyone can join!
*Obviously
Beauty, Health, Parents, Tech
Open to all and works with high-quality brands on campaigns. You are notified when a campaign opens, and you can apply to join. Campaigns fill up fast!
*Octoly
Beauty, Fashion, Health
A platform that takes on a different model where you can choose the product that you want to review. Requires 1,000 YouTube subscribers or 5,000 Instagram followers!
Pitchboard
Beauty, Fashion, Health, Travel
An invitation-only influencer platform. I’ve been on the waiting list since February 2019, so I don’t know too much about the platform itself.
*Popular Pays
Health, Foodies, Parents, Travel
A great interface with many food and alcohol-related campaigns (as well as others)! You need an Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, or Facebook account with over 5,000 followers to join.
Publicfast
Foodies, Microinfluencers, Tech
A platform that can be joined by anyone and has a small number of campaigns at a time that you can apply to join.
Social Fabric by Collective Bias
Bloggers, Foodies, Parents
Many opportunities that center around families, children, and cooking with brands such as Tyson Foods, Energizer, and Kleenex. Must apply to join.
Social Invite
Beauty, Foodies, Parents, Tech
A platform open to anyone and has a great interface showing available campaigns that influencers can apply to, mainly related to beauty, tech, and food.
Socialix
Beauty, Health, Foodies, Parents
A smaller platform with lots of opportunities for parents and fitness influencers, both with small and large brands. Need 5,000 followers on Instagram or Youtube to join.
Social Native
Health, Parents, Tech
Social Native is a relatively new platform with campaigns ranging in topics from health to tech. You must request to join.
Sway Group
Events, Health, Foodies
The Sway dashboard lets you apply to open campaigns (there’s usually a handful) and is open for anyone to join!
The Cirqle
Accessories, Beauty, Fashion, Foodies
A platform where you can apply for opportunities with high-end brands. While there are no requirements to join, most campaigns require at least 20k followers.
The Good Club
Beauty, Fashion, Foodies
A new platform that focuses on brands that are making a difference in the world. It’s just getting up and running, and you can apply to join.
Tomoson
Health, Microinfluencers, Parents, Tech
Paid opportunities as well as deals or free products for influencers. Many Amazon products and opportunities open in exchange for honest reviews. Anyone can join!
Mobile Platforms
These influencer platforms can only be accessed using a mobile phone. Check to make sure they are compatible with your phone!
Takumi
Beauty, Foodies, Travel
A mobile influencer platform available on both iOS and Android. Their minimum requirements are at least 1000 followers with 50 posts in the US, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, or Austria.
Trend
Beauty, Health, Foodies
A mobile platform that you apply to join. Available only on iOS! I’m not an iPhone user, so I have no idea what their platform is like.
Other Platforms
These are the other influencer platforms that don’t allow influencers to apply to opportunities but instead match opportunities to influencers as they come. These can have a bit of a bigger lift for smaller influencers since it’s hard to get noticed by brands this way.
Captiv8
Health, Foodies, Tech
Open to anyone to join and matches influencers to campaigns from brands such as Dr. Pepper, FOX, Dial, and Honda.
Collectively
Beauty, Fashion, Events, Tech
A closed platform (apply to join) that matches influencers to opportunities. They work with large brands so opportunities can be few and far in between.
Collabary
Accessories, Fashion
A European influencer platform with an application to join. I’m not European, so I don’t know much about the platform!
Find Your Influence
Fashion, Parents, Travel
An open platform that connects influencers to brands. I have yet to receive an opportunity from them, so I don’t know much about them!
Fohr
Events, Fashion, Travel
A platform that connects influencers to potential opportunities. Many of the opportunities are event-based (festivals, conferences, etc.). Anyone can join!
*Influenster
Beauty, Health, Foodies, Microinfluencers
A platform where brands give free products for review on social and other tasks. It’s a great way for microinfluencers to practice working with brands! Anyone can join.
INFLURY
Unknown
INFLURY is a new influencer platform that is also mainly European. I have yet to get a campaign with them, but it looks like they notify you by email when you match a campaign.
INKWAVE
Events, Parents, Travel
INKWAVE is a mainly UK influencer platform that emails matching opportunities usually for parents or events. Anyone can join.
LEADERS
Beauty, Fashion, Health, Foodies
Another platform that I am waitlisted for, so I don’t have too much information about them. Their online interface looks like it’s a version of their mobile app.
Linqia
Beauty, Health
A smaller platform that emails opportunities to relevant influencers. They require at least 2,500 cumulative social followers to apply to join. US/Canada only.
*Mavrck
Accessories, Fashion, Foodies
Connects influencers in their database to brand opportunities with companies such as Reef, Banana Republic, Reebok, and more. Anyone can join!
Niche
Beauty, Travel
Allows you to make a profile that brands can use to invite you to their campaigns. It’s open to anyone to join!
OpenInfluence
Events, Health
Another influencer platform that connects you to relevant opportunities when they come up. Most of the opportunities I have been contacted about were local events.
Pollinate
Bloggers, Health, Foodies, Parents
Open to influencers (specifically bloggers) in the US/Canada with 20,000 pageviews per month. Since I can’t join, I don’t have many details about the platform.
Reachbird
Microinfluencers
A mainly European platform that connects influencers to opportunities. They just updated their platform dashboard, too. Anyone can join!
Scrunch
Beauty, Health, Foodies
Yet another influencer network that connects you to brand opportunities as relevant ones come in. Anyone can join.
Sideqik
Beauty, Foodies, Tech
Allows you to enter your social accounts into their database and then finds opportunities as they come. I’ve never received any from them yet!
Soapbox Influence
Health, Foodies, Parents
Join their community, and they will contact you when campaigns become available for you. They are making some changes to their platform soon that may change this!
Style Coalition
Beauty, Fashion, Foodies, Parents, Travel
A Launchmetrics’ platform. It has steep requirements—you need a 100k audience between your blog and social accounts and to be in the lifestyle vertical.
The Goat Agency
Events, Foodies, Health
A small influencer agency that emails campaign opportunities to influencers that may fit the campaign. There’s no clear way to join other than sending an email to their team.
The Influence Room
Beauty, Fashion, Foodies, Tech, Travel
Works with brands like Lexus and Snickers. They have an application process with no clear requirements—I was rejected so I don’t know much more!
*The Plug
Beauty, Events, Fashion, Health, Travel
A bit different from other platforms—it allows you to trade your current brand contacts for contacts of new brands. You need an invite to join, but luckily I have an invite code!
The Shelf
Events, Microinfluencers
A platform that connects influencers to mainly local opportunities and events. Anyone can join!
Tidal Labs
Beauty, Fashion, Travel
Works with premium brands on influencer campaigns. A dashboard to apply for campaigns is under works! Apply to join.
Inactive Platforms
There are several influencer platforms that seem inactive as my last check. I am listing them below to keep track of them and to check back in to see if they become active in the future! If any of the above platforms become inactive, please let me know so I can move them down here!
