When a brand’s script lands in your inbox, you can protect your voice and still keep the deal. Here is why brands send scripts, and how to push back, from someone who writes these briefs on the seller side. What happened with Kimi In late October, a creator on X shared a campaign brief for…
Every week, influencers send me their media kits through Creator Connections. More and more of them arrive as a link from Viral Vue or Oink for Influencers. Both tools turn your stats and videos into a page you can share with brands, but they show sellers very different things. Here is how each one looks…
Black Friday rewards the influencers who are ready before it starts. Amazon’s 2026 event is expected to run from around November 19 to November 30, so the next three weeks decide how much you earn during it. Here is a simple Black Friday prep plan, one week at a time. Your plan at a glance…
If your Amazon influencer sales dip in the weeks before Black Friday, your videos are probably not the problem. The timing is. Shoppers and sellers are both waiting for the big event, and from the seller side I can explain why. Here is what is going on, and how to use the quiet weeks so…
Many shoppers on Amazon end up stuck between two brands. They have narrowed it down, read the reviews, and still cannot decide. A good comparison video settles it. That is why, as a seller, comparison videos are the ones I most want Amazon influencers to make. Here is why, how I find influencers for them,…
Black Friday is the busiest shopping stretch of the year, and for Amazon influencers it is the best chance to turn videos into commissions. The catch is timing: if your videos go live too late, you miss most of the event. Here are the key dates, the categories that sold best last year, and a…
Should you put your time into onsite videos on Amazon, or build an audience on social media? Many Amazon influencers feel they have to choose. From the seller side, my answer is simple: do both if you can. Here is why sellers value influencers who are active beyond Amazon, and why it is also safer…
Has a video that earned well for months suddenly gone quiet? Often the video did not change. The product page it was attached to did. Sellers create new pages more often than most Amazon influencers realize, and keeping up can feel like a game of musical chairs. As a seller, I can explain why it…
This week, two critical security flaws in PHP sent website owners scrambling. Some Amazon influencers report that their sites were taken offline and their sales dropped. If you are wondering whether your own income is at risk, the answer depends on one question: does your Amazon business rely on a website you run yourself? What…
Finding your video on someone else’s listing is frustrating, and it happens more often than it should. In Amazon influencer communities, people regularly share stories of merchants re-uploading their videos, sometimes cut into pieces for another marketplace, and of other accounts copying them. Here is how to report a stolen video. Where to report it…