How to Launch Your First Creator Campaign in Under 5 Minutes

“The right creators already speak to the audience you want to reach.”

— Linkable

Speed Is Your Advantage

Launching a creator campaign doesn’t need to take hours, involve endless emails, or require a full marketing team. With the right workflow, you can activate creators in minutes and get your products in front of real audiences fast.

This guide shows you how to launch your first creator campaign in under 5 minutes, even if you’ve never worked with creators before.

1. Choose the product you want creators to promote

Start with one hero product, something that already sells well, has great reviews, or represents your brand clearly.

Picking a single product keeps the campaign focused and helps creators understand exactly what they’re promoting.

When selecting the product, think about whether it is visually appealing, easy to explain, and relevant to your ideal creator audience. Simpler products with clear benefits tend to work best for your first campaign.

Tips:

• Pick a product with a clear value proposition.

• Avoid bundles and complex variants for the first test.

• Ensure you have healthy inventory to avoid delays.

  
  

2. Set your creator incentives

Creators join campaigns when the offer is simple, fair, and worth their time. With product led affiliate campaigns, you only need two things:

A) A commission on sales

Creators earn when they drive sales, nothing upfront. This is the most efficient, low-risk incentive for brands and the clearest for creators.

B) Send them the product

Creators do their best work when they can actually use or style the product. In beauty, wellness, fashion, skincare, and lifestyle, this is a game changer for authenticity and performance.

The winning formula

Most successful brands combine both: a free product + a fair commission. It's the fastest way to stand out from other campaigns and attract creators who genuinely care about what they promote.

3. Add simple campaign details

Because Linkable connects to Shopify, most of the setup is already done for you. Your product details: title, description, price, variants, image, sync automatically, so there’s no manual upload.

At this stage, you’re just checking everything looks right and making small adjustments if needed. You can choose whether the campaign is public or invite-only and upload any optional brand assets or product shots you want creators to see.

4. Tell us who your ideal creator is

This is where Linkable starts thinking with you.

You don’t need a detailed brief, just a sentence about the kind of creator you want. Something like:

• “Educational skincare creator”

• “Minimal aesthetic”

• “High-energy fitness creator”

• “Someone who talks about wellness routines”

Even a few words help the matching engine understand your taste.

Behind the scenes, Linkable looks at:

• your product category

• audience signals

• brand style

• niche

• thousands of creator data points

…to predict which creators are most likely to perform.

One sentence from you becomes the filter that removes irrelevant profiles and brings forward creators who actually make sense for your brand.

5. Publish your campaign and let Linkable match you with creators automatically

After you hit Publish, Linkable gets to work immediately.

The platform starts analysing creators in real time, niche, style, audience fit, past performance, engagement patterns to identify creators who are genuinely aligned with your product.

Instead of cold outreach or manual searching:

• creators who fit your campaign discover it automatically

• they request to promote your product

• you simply approve the ones you like

No chasing, no follow-ups, no inbox chaos.

What used to take weeks now takes less than a few minutes.

Final Thoughts

Creator campaigns used to be slow, manual, and filled with admin. Linkable changes that.

By pulling your product data straight from Shopify, matching you with relevant creators, and removing every unnecessary step in between, you can go from idea to live campaign in under five minutes.

It’s simple. It’s fast. And it’s built for ecommerce brands that want to grow without slowing down.

Ready to try it? Connecting your Shopify store takes less than 30 seconds.