Creator Discovery Becomes an Agent Job
Nectar’s Creator Agent went live globally on 12 November, indexing more than 300 million Instagram and TikTok profiles and judging fit from video context — frames, captions, speech — plus past sponsorships and brand safety, then ranking, drafting outreach in brand voice, building intake pages and coordinating contracts, gifting and shipping; it even flags life milestones for targeted notes. Grounded against the market it sells into: IAB’s USD 43.9 billion 2026 US creator figure decomposes into USD 11.6 billion paid directly to creators, USD 13.2 billion in-platform amplification, USD 11.1 billion external and USD 7.9 billion contextual ads beside creator content — so most of the headline is attention buying, not relationship management. Nectar raised a USD 30 million Series A in May led by Menlo Ventures and Anthology Fund, with True, GV and Kinship.