Find your perfect match
Looking for Creator Network creators to recommend to your audience? Here's how to find creators your audience will want to subscribe to.
Start with creators recommending you
Creators may have decided to recommend you because your content is a good fit for their audience. And if so, your audience may also enjoy their content, making them worth recommending back.
To view the creators recommending you, go to the Recommending me page by clicking Recommendations under the top navigation's Grow tab.
The Recent recommendations section shows the creators who have started recommending you recently, while the individual reports below list all the creators who have recommended you (even if they no longer do).
NOTE: If you aren't interested in recommending a creator shown in the Recent recommendations section, click the Dismiss button to hide them.
Click these creators to view their in-network profiles and learn more about them.
To recommend back a creator currently recommending you, click their Recommend back button if they are in the Recent recommendations section.
Alternatively, hover over their "Recommending" status in the report, and click the Recommend back button that appears.
Refresh the page, and you'll see the creator's status change to "Recommending each other."
Find creators you can recommend
Use the Discover page to find more creators to recommend—including those who aren't recommending you yet.
Navigate to this page by going to Recommendations under the top navigation's Grow tab. Then, click the Discover tab.
Here's how to shortlist creators on the Discover page, keeping your creator niche and audience's interests in mind.
Use the search bar and filters
Use the search bar to search for creators by name, topic, or keyword.
For example, you can search for:
A creator's name, e.g., "nathan barry"
Creators who have the "guitar" keyword in their Creator Profile
You can also use the filters on the right to filter for creators by creator type, topic, and language.
NOTE: Creators set their creator type and topics from their Recommendations settings. Meanwhile, we detect their language automatically.
Check out suggested creators
Below the search bar are categories of creators we suggest recommending if their content is a good fit for your audience:
Featured creators
Creators with content similar to yours
Shared connections
Creators that you subscribe to
Creators that subscribe to you
Creators recommending you
If any creator catches your interest, click them to view their in-network profile.
Creators you already recommend won't appear in any suggested creator category (except the Featured creators category).
NOTE: The suggested creator categories won't appear if there are no creators that meet the categories' criteria.
To hide suggested creators in any of these categories (except the Featured creators category), hover over them, and click the Dismiss button that appears.
Featured creators
Featured creators are established creators with large email followings. You may recognize some of them.
Creators with content similar to yours
The Creators with content similar to yours category displays creators whose content is similar to yours, as determined by the contents of their last 10 Broadcasts.
Shared connections
The Shared connections category displays creators being recommended by the creators you recommend. We suggest recommending them because their content may be similar to the content of the creators you recommend—and possibly to yours, too, making them a good fit for your audience.
Let's say you're a photographer who has recommended a fellow photographer named Amy. Amy is recommending another photographer named Billy.
Unless you already recommend Billy, he will appear in the Shared connections category. And since Billy is a photographer like you, your audience may be keen to subscribe to his content if you recommend him to them.
Creators that you subscribe to
The Creators that you subscribe to category displays creators whose email lists you've subscribed to.
We use the email address you use to log in to your Kit account to check whether you're subscribed to a creator's email list.
Creators that subscribe to you
The Creators that subscribe to you category displays creators who have subscribed to your email list.
We use the email address the creator uses to log in to their Kit account to check whether they're subscribed to your email list.
Creators recommending you
The Creators recommending you category displays creators who are recommending you (but you aren't recommending back).
View all other creators
Below the suggested creator categories (if available) is the Discover creators recommended for you section.
This section contains creators who don't fall within our suggested creator categories. But check them out—they may be worth recommending nevertheless!
View the creator's in-network profile
Click any creator on the Discover page to view their in-network profile—which shows information like their bio, description, the creators they recommend, the creators recommending them, and their featured post.
You can also click View All to view all their public posts.
By looking at the creator's in-network profile, you can learn:
What the creator does, from their byline and bio
How popular they are, based on the number of creators recommending them
The post they're proudest of (if they've set their featured post to a specific post)
Their latest public post (if they've set their featured post to show their latest public post)
Use this information to decide whether to recommend the creator.
For example, if the creator is in the same niche as you and writes great posts, they may be worth recommending.
Check the creator's status
Creators on the Discover page may have a colored circle around their photo. This indicates they have a special status, which you can learn by hovering your cursor over their photo.
Here's what these statuses mean.
NOTE: If the circle is multi-colored, this means the creator has multiple statuses. View these statuses by hovering your cursor over their photo.
Consistent creator
The Consistent creator status displays as an orange circle, and indicates that the creator sends at least one email per month for the past three months.
Creators with the Consistent creator status are actively emailing their audience, and may therefore be worth recommending.
Growing fast
The Growing fast status displays as a blue circle, and indicates that the creator's subscriber growth exceeds benchmarks for their list size in the last 30 days.
Creators with the Growing fast status are actively growing their audience, and may therefore be worth recommending.
Recommend your chosen creators
If you've decided to recommend a certain creator, hit the Recommend button (or the Recommend back button if they're currently recommending you). They'll be added to your Recommendations list instantly.
You can have up to 100 active Recommendations. But to maintain a positive experience for your audience, we'll show them up to five Recommendations at once.
Manage the number of Recommendations you show your audience, and their order, from the Customize page.
If you want more creators to recommend you, check out this article! 👇