Insight
Park: Influencer sponsorship should prioritize viral view ceiling over view floor
“What matters more to me is not really the floor of are they consistently getting 5010 thousand, 100,000 views. What matters way more to me is the ceiling. Do they have at least one or two videos that gets 1,000,002 1,000,010 million views?”
Insight
Park: Do not price influencer sponsorships based on follower counts
“With an influencer, you don't want to pay based on the number of subscribers and the number of followers that they have. The sole question you should be asking is will their audience convert and like your product or will they not?”
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Park: A single repeating TikTok format drove $500K+ for Jenni AI
“We probably posted that exact same video two times a week for maybe half a year, and that's done hundreds of millions of views, tens of thousands of paid users. I would say probably over half a million dollars, and it was one of several video series that we we…”
Opinion
Park: Niche influencers are always a better deal than huge creators
“These niche influencers Will always be a better deal than working with huge creators that have agents and they're well versed in how to extract as much money from you as possible.”
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Park: Jenni AI generates over $10M annually, is profitable, and has 5M users
“Collectively, we do over ten million a year, we're profitable, and we have over five million users. The vast majority of our growth came in the last two years,”
Insight
Park: Reset stuck low-view social accounts with a new SIM card
“There are some instances where your account may just be, no matter what you seem to do, you just can't seem to get it off the ground. It's just stuck kind of in like, 103 hundred view hell. In those cases, you may want to try creating a new account with a new …”
Insight
David Park: DMs yield significantly higher response rates than email for influencer outreach
“Depending on which target demographic we're going after, like DMs has a vastly higher response rate. But really, you should be sending both.”
Insight
Park: Influencers do not care about startup funding, headcount, or TechCrunch features
“So you should not talk about, you know, extraneous things like how many employees your startup has or what fundraising round you're at, or you were featured on tech crunch. If you're working with influencers, they really don't care about any of this stuff. The…”
Insight
Park: Never pay influencers 100% upfront for sponsored videos
“The most obvious thing is that you should try to avoid paying upfront for the video, and most may pay half upfront. This is because most influencers are fantastic people, but some influencers will just try and drop a half-assed video once they get the money in…”
Insight
Park: Requesting all-inclusive creator quotes allows founders to negotiate down to necessary deliverables
“The best way to do it is in my opinion, is you talk to an influencer, you bake everything in, like, you know, what's the price. If we get like exclusivity, one Instagram story, we want Lincoln bio for an entire month. Oh, I want exclusivity rights for this vid…”
Insight
Park: Paying creators a 30% markup for multi-platform reposts sharply cuts per-video cost
“So if you say, how about you also post it on Tik Tok as well? And we'll pay like 30% more. It's not that much more work for them. It's just the same video that gets reposted. And then for you, your price per video gets drastically cheaper because you're only p…”
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Park: Standard base pay for in-house UGC creators is roughly $2,000 monthly
“The industry standard is usually you pay like 2000 ish per month. It could be a little lower, a little higher depending on who you're targeting, but 2000 dollars per month, and then some incentive bonus on top of it. And it usually shakes out. Like you will pr…”
Insight
Park: Rewriting text natively on short-form platforms improves video SEO
“You want to actually rewrite the text and the hook within each of these native platforms. It helps with like the SEO of the video and it helps just like make it seem less like you're just like farming clips across multiple platforms.”
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Park: Meme accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers charge $50–$100
“They'll have ridiculously low sponsorship fees. So you could pay 50 dollars, even sometimes a hundred dollars, and then you could post it on an account that has hundreds of thousands of followers.”
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Park: Jenni AI operated five accounts posting 15 videos daily
“In the past, we at one point had five different Genie accounts, all posting similar content. Five accounts across three platforms. So 15 videos going out every single day.”
Insight
Park: Source video hooks by analyzing what naturally stops your scroll
“You could scroll yourself on the TikTok account that we talked about earlier, the TikTok account you created just to see what the algorithm serves you and just keep scrolling until something naturally grabs your attention. And that can give you ideas. Either y…”
