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David Pearce

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#3164@dapearceebth.com

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Joined on January 29th, 2014

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I had a company in this space back in 2015/16 when you could basically crawl the Instagram API. We differentiated by providing a lot of powerful analytics around _who_ an influencer was actually influencing. Then Instagram updated their terms to kill off influencer marketplaces and that was the end for us. It's a very competitive space. There are dozens of companies with large databases of influencers they built back when it was easier to scrape the API. We had 100M accounts in our database (about 25% of all IG accounts at the time), and about 1.5M of those we qualified as influencers with contact information. I don't think anyone has "won" this space, so no reason you can't come in and win. But, it will be an uphill battle, so make sure to do the competitive research and understand how you will stand out. It also appears there are multiple influencer apps in the App Store using "Reach" in their name, which makes it confusing when searching for you. Good luck and feel free to reach out if I can answer any questions.

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@nenaddmc They have that here: http://www.artoncapital.com/tools/program-map/

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4yr ago