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1.1What this playbook is for

Creator marketing works. But the results swing wildly. The best fifth of creator ads delivers nearly half of all the brand memory creators generate, and 87% of sales come from only 23% of creators.

What separates the best from the rest is rarely budget or follower count. It’s whether the work was built for how people actually behave (streaming, scrolling, searching and shopping), and whether people believe the creator would choose the brand even if nobody paid them.

This playbook gives you the evidence behind every call that needs to be made. So when a client asks why you picked this creator over a bigger name, why paid distribution sits in the plan, or why we report resonance against a baseline instead of raw likes, you’ve got the answer. Clients won’t buy numbers they can’t defend to their own boss. Our job is to hand them decisions they can.

The Humanz Creator Playbook in under eight minutes

Four things to implement, starting now

The brief

Every brief must name the behaviour it aims to win: stream, scroll, search or shop.

The creators

For each, we must explain why they would be a believable & successful advocate for the brand.

The metrics

Every metric must have a purpose, a baseline and a plan for how we track it before launch.

The report

Every report must show who our top creators are, why, and recommendations for what to do next.

How it's built

Part One: Principles

The things that stay true on every campaign and programme.

Part Two: Choices

The behaviours, the archetypes, and which ones go together.

Part Three: Workflow

Must-dos and checklists for all 8 key stages of a campaign.

Sources

Best fifth of creator ads: WPP Media / System1 / TikTok, 2026.

87% of sales from 23% of creators: Humanz analysis of US$500m in creator-driven sales, presented by Pierre Cassuto, CMO, at Social Media Week New York, 2022.

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