Searchbase for influencer marketing teams: creator lists with contact emails in one prompt

Quick answer: influencer teams use Searchbase to build creator shortlists that match a brief, niche, language, country and audience size, each row carrying the profile link and a public contact email where the creator publishes one. Describe your ideal customer. Searchbase finds them across Europe in one prompt, with the source on every cell. A shortlist of eighty creators takes minutes and a few hundred credits, and the free plan renews 150 credits a month, enough to build one campaign list before you pay anything.

What influencer marketing teams ask for

The brief is always more specific than a category, so the prompt should be too:

• "Instagram creators in Milan in the home fitness niche with 10k to 100k followers and a contact email in the bio."
• "TikTok creators posting in German about sustainable fashion, with the account link, follower count and whether they list a management agency."
• "YouTube channels in Spain reviewing espresso machines, with the channel URL, subscriber count and the business email on the About page."
• "Creators in Amsterdam who posted about a competitor's protein bar in the last three months, with the post link."
• "Food creators publishing in Italian with a linked personal site, so we can see who has a media kit."
• "Brands advertising skincare on Meta in France right now, so we can see which creators appear in their ad creatives."

The last two are the ones agencies underuse. A linked personal site usually means the creator sells partnerships deliberately. An ad library sweep tells you which creators a competitor has already paid, which is a better shortlist than any taste-based guess.

What comes back

A table that fills in while the agent works. For a creator list the usual columns are handle, platform, profile URL, follower or subscriber count as published on the profile, country or city when the profile states it, the language they actually post in, the bio text, an external link if there is one, and a contact email when the creator publishes one.

Every cell links back to the page it came from, with a badge showing when it was collected and the extraction method. Follower counts move, so the date matters more here than in most verticals. Where a value is not public, the cell says n/a. Searchbase will not estimate an engagement rate it could not read, and it will not produce an email address that is not published somewhere. That restraint is the reason the list survives a client review.

Today teams use Modash or HypeAuditor for creator discovery inside those platforms' own indexes. Searchbase reads the open web instead, which is why it catches the creator who is big on a platform the index covers thinly, or who posts in Italian about a niche nobody has categorised yet.

Sources that matter for influencer marketing

Twelve social platforms are the core. That is where the profile, the follower count, the bio, the link and the posting language live, and a social profile read costs about three credits.

Three ad libraries, Meta, Google and TikTok, are the underrated half of the job. Creative assets in a competitor's live ads often show the creator they hired. Running that sweep before the shortlist changes the conversation with the client from "these people look right" to "these people are already being paid in your category".

Creator sites and link pages matter because that is where a media kit, a rate card and a business address usually sit. Press coverage helps for the top of the range, where a creator has been written about. Directories and talent rosters help where the creator is signed to an agency that publishes its list. Job boards are irrelevant here, and pretending otherwise would just cost you credits.

A worked example

Prompt: "Instagram creators in Milan in the home fitness niche with 10k to 100k followers and a contact email in the bio."

The agent plans out loud. It decides to search hashtags and location signals for the niche, collect candidate accounts, then open each profile to read follower count, bio, language and external link, then open the linked site when there is one to look for a business email.

It runs. Around 200 profiles get opened at about three credits each, plus roughly 60 linked pages at about one credit each, so the run lands near 700 credits. Rows stream into the table while this happens, so if the niche is drifting into general fitness you stop it and tighten the prompt rather than paying for the whole sweep.

The output is around eighty creators, of whom perhaps thirty publish a contact email. That ratio is normal and it is honest: the other fifty are still usable, they just need a direct message. If you want a deeper read on the ten finalists, Deep Research costs 20 to 40 credits per report and returns a cited summary of what a creator posts about and who they have worked with.

From the table to the first message

Outreach to creators fails when it is obviously templated, so the draft has to carry a specific detail. From the table, the agent drafts email and direct message sequences for the creators it found, referencing the actual niche, the actual recent post, the actual platform.

Every draft goes through a review step before anything happens. You read it, cut what sounds like a brand robot, and nothing leaves without your approval. Sending from the campaign wizard is still rolling out, so today the workflow is review then export: JSON on every plan, CSV from Starter, an API from Pro, webhooks on Business. Most agencies export the shortlist into the sheet the client already comments on.

Pricing for an influencer team

Free costs nothing and renews 150 credits a month. Because social profiles cost about three credits each, 150 credits is a test of the method rather than a full campaign list, around fifty profiles.

Starter at €29 a month gives 1,000 credits and CSV export, which is roughly one full shortlist per month for a single campaign.

Pro at €79 a month gives 4,000 credits and API access. This is the realistic plan for an agency running several client briefs at once, since a proper shortlist plus an ad library sweep is usually 700 to 1,200 credits per brief.

Business at €199 a month gives 12,000 credits and webhooks, for teams that rebuild lists monthly across many clients or want new matches pushed into their own tools. Prices are in euros, the product works in English and Italian, and the company is European.

Frequently asked questions

Where do the contact emails come from? From places the creator published them: the bio, the linked site, a YouTube About page, a media kit. If a creator has not published an email, the cell is n/a and you reach out by direct message instead.

Can it tell me engagement rate? Only what it can read. Searchbase reports what is on the profile and links to it. It does not compute an engagement estimate from data it could not see, because a number without a source is exactly what gets a shortlist rejected.

Does it cover TikTok and YouTube, not just Instagram? It covers twelve social platforms, and a single prompt can span more than one. Coverage per platform depends on what each one exposes publicly.

Can I find creators who worked with a competitor? Yes, through the ad libraries. Meta, Google and TikTok ads show live creatives in a category and country, which surfaces the creators a competitor is currently paying.

Does it message the creators for me? It drafts the sequences and you approve them. Launching from the campaign wizard is being switched on progressively, so most teams review and export today.

Is this compliant for a European client? Searchbase is a European company, it reads public pages, it records where each value came from, and it marks anything it could not verify as n/a. The source link on every cell is what makes an audit possible.

Prices checked on 2026-09-08 on searchbase.org.