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Founder's Note · For Independent Creators

You're not underpaid. You're under-informed.

Michael Gratteri
By Michael Gratteri
Chief Brand Officer, Scout24
May 2026
4 min read

I've had this conversation more times than I can count. A creator with a genuinely engaged audience, strong content, real influence in their niche, tells me they can't land consistent brand deals. They're posting. They're growing. They're doing everything right. But the paid work is patchy. Some months are great. Most are quiet. And they have no idea why.

Here's the answer nobody tells them: it's not your content. It's your access to information.

"The creators landing consistent paid work aren't necessarily better than you. They just know where to look."

Brand deals don't get posted where creators look. They go up on partnership platforms most creators have never heard of. They get buried inside job listings. They circulate in closed community boards and agency networks and brand portals that require an application just to see inside. By the time a deal surfaces somewhere visible, it's either closing or already gone.

Or you have someone looking for them. Scout24 is that someone.

The feed that finds what you can't

Every day our team sources live brand campaigns from more than 30 channels across the internet. Partnership platforms, job boards, brand career pages, industry newsletters, creator community boards, social listening signals. Manual curation combined with automated sourcing, verified before anything hits the feed.

The Scout24 Standard

If a brand is paying creators right now, it's on Scout24. If it's not on Scout24, it's not anywhere.

What you see when you log in: the brand, the niche, the platform, the budget tier, the follower requirements, the deadline, and a suggested pitch angle. You don't start from a blank page. You see what the brand wants and you pitch directly into the brief in one click.

No cold DMs. No guessing. No waiting to hear back about whether the brief is even still open.

The part that changes everything

Most of what's on the feed you won't find yourself. That's the point.

But the signal feed takes it further. Before a brand even publishes a brief, our system tracks signals: a brand hiring a creator partnerships lead, ramping their influencer spend, attending creator conferences, increasing their content production budget. We surface that as a scored signal with a pitch angle and a why-now.

That means you can be in a brand's inbox with a relevant pitch before they've briefed anyone. That's not the same conversation as responding to an open brief alongside 200 other creators. That's a conversation where you're the only one in the room.

Who this is for

If you're a creator doing this seriously, meaning you treat it like a business, you think about your rate card, you know your engagement stats, you have a niche and you're building inside it, Scout24 is built for you.

It's not for creators who are waiting to be discovered. It's for creators who want to go get it.

One flat price: $49 a month. The brief you land this month covers it.

If a brand is paying creators right now, it's on Scout24.

One flat price. The brief you land this month covers it.

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