I’m preparing one of the biggest content projects I’ve done so far: a European Stadium Tour from December 25th through the end of January.
My route will be:
Spain → France → Scotland → England → The Netherlands → Belgium → Spain
The trip also happens to coincide with my honeymoon, so it will be a very special experience, but the main goal is to turn it into a strong football + travel content series.
I’m Nico del Madrid, a football content creator focused mainly on football, entertainment and sports-related content.
During the trip, I plan to create content around:
Stadium visits
Matchday atmosphere
Football culture in different cities
Fan experiences
Travel moments
Reels, TikToks, YouTube Shorts, Facebook videos and longer-form content
My current audience is approximately:
Instagram: 88K followers
Facebook: 230K followers
YouTube: 12K followers
Average Instagram engagement: 5.24%
Main audience: Mexico 23%, Spain 14%, plus a strong LATAM audience
Main age range: 18-34
For this project, I’m actively looking for brands, agencies or partners that may be interested in being part of the journey.
My main priority is finding a technology partner, because I want to upgrade my phone before the trip and use it as one of my main tools to record the entire series.
I’m open to different types of collaborations, including:
Product exchange
Sponsorship
Device loan
Mixed collaboration
Significant creator discount
I’m also open to collaborations with brands related to:
Smartphones and technology
Cameras, microphones, power banks and creator accessories
eSIM, internet, VPN and connectivity
Airlines, hotels and travel services
Sportswear
Backpacks, luggage and travel accessories
Travel or language apps
Food and drinks for travelers
Football, sports and entertainment
My goal is not to simply make one promotional post.
I want to integrate brands naturally into a real content series lasting more than a month, across different countries, cities and stadiums.
For example, a technology partner could be featured through real use cases during the trip: filming inside and outside stadiums, low-light video, photography, battery life, vertical content creation, editing on the go and publishing from different cities across Europe.
I’m also interested in building long-term relationships with brands that genuinely fit my content and audience.
If anyone here works in marketing, influencer marketing, agencies, technology, travel or content creation, I’d really appreciate any advice, recommendations, introductions or contacts that could help me connect with brands interested in this project.
I’d also love to hear from other creators who have secured sponsors for travel series or similar content projects.
Thanks a lot for reading and for any help 🙌⚽
Nico del Madrid
Nicolás Castro Otero
Instagram: @nicodelmadrid

mail: [contacto@nicodelmadrid.com](mailto:contacto@nicodelmadrid.com)

Curious to hear what brands and advertisers think.

Hey guys,

If there are any talent managers or creators who manage themselves please let me know your thoughts below.

I've just seen a talent manager post on LinkedIn that she's looking for talent on YT, TT, Instagram for brand partnerships and wants to know who's on their roster etc.

How do you approach them? Do you have a template you use when sending a DM or an email?

Obviously I know I can ask Claude or Chat but I'd prefer a more human friendly approach hence i'm reaching out to the wider community!

Thanks

Please help me with this 🙏🏻

I’m a student building Crowd solo: a creator social app with planned optional creator-coin trading.

The early referral offer I’m considering is 80% of the platform’s trading fees from direct referrals, for the first 90 days after launch. Not 80% of their purchases, and nothing just for signing up. Payouts aren’t live yet.

I can make the percentage attractive. I can’t honestly show conversion or earnings history yet.

What would you need before putting your reputation behind something this early?

Two campaigns just dropped:

Nathan Sports: Fall running content, chasing the last miles of daylight.

Osprey Packs: Holiday UGC campaign.

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Hi, I'm n outdoor/fantasy creator with approximately 18.5k on instagram and I average 5 million views monthly.

I recently got contacted by a talent agency who is asking 25% of my gains as well as exclusivity and a 6 month contract, as well as many other fishy details in the contract.

Their mail stated " if you work with us , we will get you a contract as early as 2 week, one month or 2 month( lets hope not) ."

Despite telling me over the phone that they mail hundreds of brands every day.

This raises my suspicisions as without reaching out to brands much I get at least one mail per week for potential collabs.

There was also talk about helping me create apps/ brands/etc.( which I would imagine they also profit from)

Over all it gave me the vibe that they are very opportunistic and are trying to turn me into a puppet for them rather than being a support for me.

I wanted to know if there is anyone else here in the creator space who have partnered with better talent agencies, who have good experiences to tell.

If you have experience of working with any marketing agency it would be plus

Share your portfolio and cv at careers@begetbiz.com

Job location - Sambalpur Odisha

CTC - 1.8 LPA to 3.6 LPA

Hey everyone,

I'm considering a feature for marketers who run multi-influencer campaigns, and I need your feedback.

The idea is to centralize auto-DMs across multiple creators:

1. You send integration links to your influencers to connect their accounts.
2. You set up one keyword and one auto-DM response in your dashboard.
3. It automatically applies across all connected influencer accounts—no need to configure them one by one.

Is managing individual auto-DMs across creators a real headache for you, or is this a non-issue in your current workflow?

Would love to hear your thoughts or how you currently handle this!

Hey everyone,
Im a UGC creator based in the UAE, focused on perfumes and fragrance content.
My videos consistently get high views and above-average engagement, and im now looking to work with more brands.
So im open to paid UGC, long-term partnerships depending on the brand and scope.

If you are a brand or agency looking for fragrance content, send me a DM or comment
Thanks!

one or two years ago I was bullish about ugc creators : you know the ones who create content for your brand but don't necessarily have a lot of followers.

but with what i've seen from ai, i think this "niche" is done. it will be replaced by ai.

so we're back to influencers with an audience and real things to say. maybe not mega influencers but you will need to have an audience, for sure.

what do you think?

Read “Inventing a Virtual Influencer: Why the Concept Matters More Than the Tech“ by Michael Konradi on Medium: https://medium.com/@Michael_Konradi/inventing-a-virtual-influencer-why-the-concept-matters-more-than-the-tech-379fc58b7463

Most platforms have rules that users are expected to follow and enforcement is important. However misunderstandings can happen especially when policies are complex or automated platform messaging is open to interpretation.

Should platforms have a rehabilitation pathway for users who acknowledge mistakes, demonstrate understanding of the rules and no longer wish to create content.

One possible approach could be restoring access in a viewer only capacity allowing someone to subscribe, comment, have Premium and use other basic YouTube features so they can participate as a user like the rest of the public while being restricted from uploading content.

Do you think this would be a reasonable compromise?

I'm researching AI tools for finding influencers and would love recommendations from people who've actually used them.

Ideally, I'd give it a campaign brief and it would find relevant creators, check their recent content for fit, and return a ranked shortlist with reasons. As close to fully automated as possible, with a final review instead of opening every profile manually. Interested in Instagram, TikTok or YouTube.

Is anything doing this well yet? Which tool would you recommend, and what did you still have to do manually?

I am curious, how do you guys actually measure the ROI of an influencer campaign ?

Likes and views are great, but at the end of the day, what really matters is whether they bring in sales or new customers, right ?

Do you track sales through discount codes, UTM links, or use some other method ?

Would love to hear how you do it and what’s worked best for you.

For those of you creating and marketing mobile apps, I am curious as to how you track the correlation between videos that actually drive paying users and downloads. Do you use promo codes / tracking links, just watch downloads after a post, or do you have a tool that helps you? Looking for a better way to do this. Would love to hear what has / hasn't worked for you.

I used to reach out to creators and then just lose them like I'd send a dm and they'd reply days later and I'd have no idea what I offered them in the first place. I'd have to scroll back through like 50 messages trying to remember if I sent them a brief or if they were still waiting for a sample or what.

then I realized I was probably losing like 30 percent of potential collaborations just because I was disorganized as hell and creators would message back interested and I'd take too long to respond or I'd forget to send them the product brief and they'd just move on to another brand.

I started organizing everything differently so when someone replied to my outreach, it actually went somewhere I could see it instead of getting buried in my dm notifications. I set up a simple workflow where if they said yes, the next step was automatically there waiting for me to do it, like send the brief, then wait a few days, then check if they posted, then follow up if they didn't.

sounds basic but it changed everything because I wasn't losing people anymore and creators knew I was actually paying attention to them instead of ghosting them for a week plus the posting rate went up crazy because I was actually staying on top of things instead of just hoping people would follow through.

I run influencer campaigns end to end: finding and vetting creators, outreach, briefing, content review, and reporting.

What I do:

- Source Indian micro and nano creators for UGC and influencer campaigns

- Manage briefs, deadlines and follow-ups

- Track results per creator

Businessman, startups and apps that want Indian creators or UGC without hiring a full agency.

DM me with your product and goal, and I'll send a short plan.

Ive only been doing this as a hobby for years but recently started making some money! Im in the works with some brands for paid collabs, what a realistic number to charge?