USE CASE:
Sponsorship scouting for micro influencers, start to finish
The job on this page is sponsorship scouting for micro influencers, with the options first, ours included, and the recommendation at the end. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Creator Finder is something you run yourself against your own list of micro influencers.
Last updated October 6, 2026
What is actually going wrong
Micro influencers distort sponsorship scouting, for a reason specific to them. Any sponsorship scouting method has to survive this: micro influencers sit where engagement is still high and the audience is large enough to move a number. One thing sponsorship scouting on micro influencers rarely accounts for: this band holds the most bought audiences, because the jump from here is what creators pay to fake. Creator Finder carries 1 ready made setup for sponsorship scouting on micro influencers.
Traditional Search Tools
- An engagement rate check, for micro influencers. Free to run by hand, and it filters most bought audiences out.
- Modash. A large searchable creator database across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube with audience filters. Strong discovery, sold on a monthly subscription that suits a team running campaigns every month.
- TikTok One and the other platform marketplaces. Official, free to browse, and limited to creators who opted in. The ones who did not sign up are invisible there.
- An influencer agency. They bring a roster and the relationships, and charge a retainer or a share of the fee. Worth it for a launch, expensive as a standing way to find people.
- Search the platforms yourself. Type the niche into TikTok, Instagram and YouTube search, open every profile that looks right, and copy the handle and follower count into a sheet. About three minutes a creator, and the results depend on what each app decides to show you.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
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- Creator Finder1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.