About Paid Brand Deals

Most advice about brand deals stops at "reach out to brands." The hard part comes after the reply. You need a rate, a contract you understand, a clear answer on who owns the video, and an invoice that gets paid on time. That is the part we write about.

Independent and unsponsored

Paid Brand Deals is fully independent. No creator platform, marketplace, or brand owns, funds, or controls it, and nothing on the site is sponsored. No company paid for, commissioned, or approved any review, ranking, or piece of research. Every fact is verified against the platform's own published pages. The details are in our independence statement.

What we publish

• Platform reviews of the native programs, marketplaces, UGC platforms, and sponsorship desks that pay creators. Each one lists the fee, the follower minimum, the payout terms, and the pages we checked.
• A ranking that scores every platform the same way. The weights are on our methodology page.
• Guides to rates, pitching, media kits, contracts, usage rights, disclosure, scams, and invoicing.
• A rate calculator and a glossary of the terms in a brand's contract.

Who we write for

We write for a creator with somewhere between 2,000 and 200,000 followers who has never signed a brand contract, or who signed one and wishes they had read it more closely. If you run a talent agency, you already know most of this.

What we will not do

• Sell a ranking, a score, or a review. Platforms can send corrections. They cannot buy a position.
• Claim we tested something we did not. Our reviews say where each fact came from.
• Publish testimonials, earnings screenshots, or statistics we cannot source.

The full rules are in our editorial policy.

Get in touch

Corrections, questions, and tips go to hello@paidbranddeals.com. If a platform changed its fees or rules, send the link and we will recheck the review.