For brands · Authority over audience

Athletes bring the authority.
You bring the reach.

Vetted athletes create authoritative video for your products. You run it as partnership ads and new-product activations — and pay a share of ad spend, not a flat influencer fee. It's not about their following. It's about credible creative you put your own budget behind.

Free product to athletes · Pay a % of ad spend · Whitelisted Meta & TikTok ads

Are you an athlete? Get paid to create

Authority is the asset. Reach is yours to buy.

You're not renting an audience. You're buying credibility.

The athletes here don't need a massive following — and that's exactly the point. Their value is authority: a real, vetted athlete standing behind your product. They make the authoritative video; you put the ad budget behind it and control the reach.

Credibility, not clout

It isn't about their follower count. A real, vetted athlete putting your product to work is authority your customers actually believe — the kind a studio shoot can't fake.

Authoritative video, made for you

Every athlete creates genuine video of your product in their world. You get a library of credible, native creative built to convert — not a single sponsored post that disappears.

You bring the reach

The athlete doesn't need a huge audience — that's the point. You put ad budget behind their video and control the targeting, so the right customers see it, not just their followers.

Two ways to put athlete authority to work

Amplify credible creative with your own budget — as ongoing partnership ads or a launch-day product activation.

Partnership ads

Run partnership ads under their handle

Launch each athlete's video as a whitelisted Meta partnership ad or TikTok spark ad running from their own account. Real athlete authority up top, your budget and targeting behind it — for higher trust and lower CPMs than brand-account ads.

  • Whitelisted Meta & TikTok ads from the athlete's handle
  • You set the budget, audience, and when it goes live
  • Content stays authentic — it's their account, their voice
Product activations

Activate a new product launch

Launching something new? Put it in the hands of a wave of vetted athletes at once and get a stack of authoritative launch videos ready to run — instant credible creative for day one instead of an empty ad account.

  • Comp your new product to a curated set of athletes
  • Collect launch-ready videos in one creative library
  • Go live across ads the moment the product drops

How it works

From brief to free product to authoritative video to ads you run — one loop, all in Athletes.

  1. 01

    Post a campaign

    Write the brief and curate a product menu from your Shopify store. Set comp as a share of ad spend — no flat influencer fees.

  2. 02

    Send free product

    Vetted athletes accept and get your product comped, so they create with it firsthand instead of guessing from a spec sheet.

  3. 03

    Get authoritative video

    Each athlete makes credible, native video of your product and uploads it to the campaign's creative library for your approval.

  4. 04

    Run ads & pay on spend

    Launch the approved videos as partnership ads or an activation. You bring the reach, and payment is a percentage of the ad spend behind each one.

Free product in. A share of ad spend out.

No flat influencer fees and no paying premiums for follower counts. Athletes create with comped product, and their pay is a percentage of the budget you put behind their video — so your cost scales with the ads you actually run.

Free product, not upfront cash

Athletes are comped your product to create with. No big flat fee just to get a video made.

Payment is a share of ad spend

You pay a percentage of what you spend putting their video in market — so cost scales with the ads you actually run.

Never pay for followers you don't need

You're buying authority and reach you control, not an audience number. No paying premiums for a following that may not even convert.

Everything in one place

From discovery to authoritative video to whitelisted ads and payouts — the whole campaign lives in Athletes.

Campaign marketplace

Post a brief, set the comp, and let vetted athletes discover and request to join — or invite them directly.

Creative library

Every campaign's authoritative videos land in one place — approved, organized, and ready to launch as ads.

Ad whitelisting

Capture Meta partnership ads and TikTok spark codes so you can run whitelisted ads behind athlete video.

Comped products

Curate a product menu per campaign; athletes pick one — comped on accept through Shopify.

Ad-spend payouts

Fund payouts from a saved card; the athlete's share of ad spend lands in their account automatically.

Attributed sales

Issue double-sided ambassador discount codes and attribute every sale back to the athlete who drove it.

Are you an athlete, not a brand?

See how vetted athletes get paid to create and grow as brands run ads under their handle.

Athletes for creators

Ready to put real athlete authority behind your ads?

Post your first campaign, comp the product, and turn authoritative video into partnership ads and activations you run.