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Influencer & KOL marketing for alcohol & spirits - spirits, wine, RTD, craft beer and D2C. You are one of the few categories here where creators are actually permitted, so the problem is not access. It is that a paid post has to end in a pour or a case off the shelf, in a market you can legally sell in, and almost nobody is counting either. We run audited-audience creators on activations tied to something you can check.

Everyone reports reach. Nobody reports what left the shelf.

Bartenders & sommeliers On-premise activations Age-gated creator audiences Tracked to pours & shelf
1200+
vetted KOLs & creators
0
bot-inflated deals shipped
6
platforms, one team
Verticals

Creators who already pour in your niche

We don't "find influencers" from scratch. We keep vetted creator rosters per gray-area vertical - people who run these exact offers and know what passes.

5 drinks niches more coming
Channels

Every KOL channel - one team

Creators, streamers and channels sourced and vetted per platform. Real audiences, matched to your offer - no bot lists.

6 channels live more coming
Diagnosis → Cure

Recognize yourself?

If even one line is about you - it's time to change the approach.

Bartender posted it, nobody ordered it Rate card set by the bar's reputation Audience sits in states we cannot ship to Twelve bottles out, four posts back Creator's account has no age gate at all Legal rewrote the caption after the shoot Flat fee paid, not one case moved Buying reach in markets we do not sell in Bartender posted it, nobody ordered it Rate card set by the bar's reputation Audience sits in states we cannot ship to Twelve bottles out, four posts back Creator's account has no age gate at all Legal rewrote the caption after the shoot Flat fee paid, not one case moved Buying reach in markets we do not sell in
Pod comments on a cocktail account Same six bartenders every brand books Filmed drinking, and the brand wore it Distributor asked which post moved the shelf Ambassador programme with no reporting at all Somm posted, the allocation had already gone Event photos, no guest data, no follow-up Screenshot reach the analytics did not match Pod comments on a cocktail account Same six bartenders every brand books Filmed drinking, and the brand wore it Distributor asked which post moved the shelf Ambassador programme with no reporting at all Somm posted, the allocation had already gone Event photos, no guest data, no follow-up Screenshot reach the analytics did not match
how we fix it ↓
01
Audience verification
Every creator bot-audited
Real followersGEO match
We screen followers, engagement and comment quality before a cent is spent - no bought audiences.
02
Performance deals with KOLs
CPA & RevShare over flat fees
CPARevShareHybrid
We negotiate KOLs onto skin-in-the-game terms wherever their tier and your offer allow - so creators earn on results, not on reach screenshots.
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03
KOL-to-conversion tracking
Per-creator attribution
UTM & codesPostbacks
Unique links and promo codes per KOL - so you know which creator drove deposits, not just views.
04
Multi-format activation
Threads · streams · shorts · calls
NativeCompliant
Briefs written per platform and vertical - threads, live sessions, integrations and UGC that read native, not ad.
⚡ Feel the difference

Shoutout vs activation

One drinks creator, one bottle, two briefs. The front card is the paid post that ends at the like count. Swipe it away to see the activation we brief, age-gate and tie to a pour.

💤 Flat shoutout

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Stats

Why flat shoutouts fail

Reach without a verified audience and a tracked deal is just a screenshot. Here's the gap.

92%
act on a recommendation
Word-of-mouth still beats every ad format - a KOL is word-of-mouth at scale.
49%
of followers can be fake
On accounts that bought growth - you pay for reach that never existed.
67%
of KOL budget is wasted
On unvetted audiences and flat-fee deals with zero tracking.
11x
ROI on the best deals
When the audience is verified and the KOL is on a performance deal.
71%
of buyers trust creators
Your audience trusts a creator's word over a brand's ad copy.
5x
cheaper signups
A vetted creator on CPA often beats cold paid social on cost per signup.
Flat shoutouts → bought reach, no sales Verified KOLs → real audiences, tracked ROI
How we work

What we actually do

One team owns the whole KOL funnel - from sourcing the right creator to the tracked deposit.

Sourcing & vetting
We shortlist creators per platform and vertical, then bot-audit followers, engagement and GEO before outreach.
Deal negotiation
We negotiate rates and - where the creator is open to it - move deals onto CPA, RevShare or hybrid terms. How far we can push depends on the KOL's tier and your project's stage; flat-fee-only names get capped spend and tracked links.
$8K? CPA
Briefs & creative
Per-platform briefs and hooks - threads, integrations, stream scripts and UGC that read native and stay compliant.
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Tracking & attribution
Unique links and promo codes per KOL, wired to your CRM - so every deposit maps back to the creator that drove it.
Campaign management
We run the calendar, chase deliverables, verify posts go live and shift budget to the creators that convert.
Dedicated KOL manager
One manager owns your roster and creator relationships - a real owner on your vertical, not a ticket queue.
Cases

Drinks creator targets, and the real cases behind them

Tap a case - we'll show the details. Figures are from live campaigns; brand names withheld under NDA. No drinks creator programme of ours is published yet, so the targets below are modelled from the two live cases that share its mechanics - creator volume produced under claim review, and age-gated activations that have to scale into a weekend and back down again. Full portfolio across every vertical →

Modelled targets, not delivered results. The ranges below are projections. The real campaigns they are modelled on sit underneath, with their actual verticals and figures on them.
Alcohol & spirits creators: what we would target
Spirits · TARGET
Bartender programmes that end in a pour
$12-25K/mo$4-8 per shelf action+
Task
Get the bottle onto back bars and menus in your distributor's markets, and hand the sales team something they can show a buyer.
Modelled on $12-25K/mo · first honest read at 90 days
Target — not a delivered result
$4-8 per attributed shelf action
$4-8
Cost / shelf action
15-25
Creators live
60-90
Accounts pouring it
What we would run
  • Audience audited on age and on the markets your distributor actually covers
  • Bartenders paid against a menu listing and a pour count, not against a photo
  • Age-gated partnership ads behind the cuts that worked, fenced to the postcodes around the bar
Wine · TARGET
Somm and collector creators into club members
$8-18K/mo$65-100 member CAC+
Task
Fill the allocation list through people with real authority, and stop paying to replace the same third of the club every year.
Modelled on $8-18K/mo · first honest read at 60 days
Target — not a delivered result
$65-100 per club member
$65-100
Cost / member
10-16
Creators live
58-66%
Live at shipment 4
What we would run
  • Creators vetted on whether their audience can legally receive a shipment
  • Allocation and release access as the offer instead of a discount code
  • Claim links that check the state first, so nobody joins a club that cannot ship to them
RTD · TARGET
Occasion UGC you can put money behind
$15-35K/mo$90-150 per asset+
Task
Build enough occasion-led creator content to find the serve that travels, then buy trial where the pack is actually picked up.
Modelled on $15-35K/mo · first honest read at 45 days
Target — not a delivered result
$90-150 per usable asset
$90-150
Cost / usable asset
40-60
Assets / mo
$3-5.50
Cost / first pack
What we would run
  • Responsible-serve rules and usage rights agreed before a single shoot
  • Batch production of eight variants per creator, priced per usable asset
  • Winners run as age-gated paid, with geo holdout cells so lift is measured rather than argued
The real campaigns these targets come from
Nutra
Nutra - TikTok UGC creators
$512Kx2.58 ROI+
Task
Supplement sales on tier-1 markets. Priority: a high approve rate. Same economics an RTD or wine brand runs into: the first case barely covers acquisition, and the account only works if the reorder shows up.
Budget: $512K · Timeline: 9 mo
Result
31,890 sales
$16.1
CPS
x2.58
ROI
41.3%
Approve
What we did
  • Batch of vetted TikTok UGC creators
  • Native hooks with compliant claims
  • Whitelisted the winners into Spark Ads
iGaming
Sportsbook - Kick streamers, matchday
$240Kx2.95 ROI+
Task
Acquire bettors for a new sports-betting brand across tier-1 EU. Scale FTDs around big fixtures without blowing up CPA. Same shape as the drinks calendar: demand arrives in windows you do not control, so budget has to scale into a weekend and come back down without breaking the account.
Budget: $240K · Timeline: 8 mo
Result
11,280 FTD
$22.8
CPA
x2.95
ROI
31.2%
Ret D7
What we did
  • Matchday live sessions with sports streamers
  • Odds-boost code drops timed to fixtures
  • Clip amplification across Shorts & Telegram
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Straight answers

The questions you're actually asking

How do you know a creator's audience is real? +
Before a cent moves, we audit followers, engagement quality, comment authenticity and GEO on every creator. Bought or bot-heavy audiences get cut. You only pay for reach that's actually real and matched to your offer.
Do you put KOLs on CPA / RevShare, not just flat fees? +
Wherever the creator will take it, yes. We push KOLs onto CPA, RevShare or hybrid terms so they have skin in the game. Some top names only do flat fees - there we cap spend, track every link and drop anyone who doesn't convert. Our own fee is a monthly retainer - the performance terms are between you and the creators we sign.
Do you actually work in gray-area verticals? +
Alcohol is one of the few industries on this list where creators are genuinely permitted. Meta and YouTube carry drinks with age gating in the markets that allow it, and short-form creators carry the category even where an ad account cannot, so an agency telling you this is a banned vertical has not worked in it. The gray part is everything the permission does not cover. The audience has to be old enough and in a market you can legally sell in, the script cannot read as an invitation to drink more, the creator's back catalogue becomes your brand-safety problem the day you book them, and the post has to end in a pour or a case off the shelf, which is the part nobody counts. So we audit on age and geography before the rate is agreed, write the brief with your compliance lead rather than after them, and tie the deal to something checkable - a pour count off the till, a locator action, a claimed allocation. Our published track record is in verticals with the same mechanics - nutra, where creator volume runs under claim review, and sportsbook, where age-gated streamer activations have to scale into a weekend and come back down. No drinks creator programme of ours is published yet, and on the call we will say which parts we would treat as a test.
How fast can we start? +
First activations are usually live within days of kickoff, once the roster is vetted and signed. We move fast on purpose - in these verticals, momentum and fresh creators are most of the game.
What's the minimum budget for a KOL campaign? +
Test batches start around $10k - enough for several vetted creators and real signal on what converts. We'd rather start small and scale winners than burn a big budget on one big name.
Who owns the content creators produce? +
Usage rights are written into every deal before it's signed - including whitelisting, so winning posts can run as paid ads from the creator's handle. No "extra license fee" surprises after the post performs.
How do you measure success? +
Per-creator links and promo codes wired to your funnel. You see signups, deposits and CPA per KOL - not a reach screenshot. Weak creators get cut, winners get scaled.
What if a creator ghosts or misses deliverables? +
It happens - that's why deliverables and deadlines are contracted, payouts are milestone-based, and the roster always has a vetted replacement ready. Your campaign doesn't hinge on one person's mood.
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