USE CASE:
TikTok creators and the sponsorship scouting problem
Read this if you need sponsorship scouting for TikTok creators and you would rather see the real options than a pitch. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Creator Finder is the one that does this for TikTok creators.
Last updated October 6, 2026
The problem
TikTok creators and sponsorship scouting: the answer is public, scattered, and nobody has time to collect it. TikTok creators can go from unknown to a million views in a week, so their numbers move faster than anyone's, which shapes sponsorship scouting. Know this about TikTok creators before any sponsorship scouting: one viral clip can carry a profile for months while typical posts reach a fraction of it. There is 1 runnable example of sponsorship scouting for TikTok creators below.
How we would run it
- Start with one of TikTok creators you already know, so a wrong sponsorship scouting answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Creator Finder across your list of TikTok creators, which carries 1 ready made setup for sponsorship scouting.
- Read ten rows of sponsorship scouting on TikTok creators by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- TikTok One, for TikTok creators. The official creator marketplace, free to browse, covering only creators who joined it.
- 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.
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.