What to Do When a Brand Offers a Gifted Collab
If you’ve opened up that dreaded email from a brand you’ve dreamed of working with saying that they don’t have the budget for a paid collaboration, but would love to offer you free products instead, you definitely aren’t alone. This is something every creator has heard at some point.
And you don’t want to ruin a potential relationship or future partnership, but you also don’t want to get taken advantage of and create content for free. So, what do you do?
Today, I’m giving you the scoop on exactly how to handle those offers for nothing but gifted products so you don’t get taken advantage of and can continue to grow your business as a creator.
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👀 Instagram has added new views-related metrics to help guide creators in making Reels
They added a “View Rate” metric that shows what percentage of viewers watched beyond the first three seconds of the clip.
“Views Over Time” shows the comparison of video performance among followers and non-followers.
They’ve also added a tips element in the overview of your video clips to give you comparative data on each clip’s performance.
📏 Instagram shared an overview of image sizing and display guidelines for optimal presentation
They give dimensions for Carousels, Reels, and Stories.
🎥 Instagram released more information about their upcoming video creation app, Edits
Some of the highlighted features are a stacked timeline in editing, AI image to video, automatic captions, enhanced camera quality, and eventually the ability to collaborate in real-time.
