Cortex Influence
Cortex Influence — boutique talent agency

We connect outdoor brands with the YouTubers, TikTokers, and Instagrammers their audiences trust. We handle the deals, contracts, payments, and reporting end-to-end.

In deals brokered
$5M+
Monthly impressions
140M+
In plain English

What we actually do.

Outdoor brands want to advertise to the people who already watch creators talk about gear, trails, lakes, and campgrounds on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. Real videos. Not pop-up ads.

We're the people who set those deals up. We pick the right creator for the brand, write the contract, make sure the legal side is clean, get the creator paid, and send the brand a report when the campaign ends.

Brands get sales. Creators get paid. We sit in the middle and run the work.

If you saw any of these words on our site
CPM
Cost per thousand views. The brand pays for the views the video actually gets, not a flat fee up front.
View cap and view floor
A floor is the minimum views the brand pays for. A cap is the most they'll pay for. Predictable spend.
FTC-compliant
U.S. law says creators have to clearly say a video is sponsored. We make sure they do.
Integration
A paid product mention inside a creator's regular video — not a separate ad break.
Shortlist
Four to six creators we pick by hand for a brand's specific campaign.
Roster

Outdoor-only. Exclusive. Booked through us.

A tight bench of outdoor-native creators on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. No lifestyle creators we ‘also work with.’ No recycled travel vloggers. Every deal routes through Cortex.

100K–1M · US / CA / UK / AU
Match

Fit by audience data — not vibes.

Geo, age, content style, prior sponsor performance. We hand-pick a shortlist of four to six creators per campaign. The right creator, not the biggest.

Shortlist delivered in 48 hours
Manage

Brief once. We run the rest.

Negotiation, FTC-compliant contracts, deliverable reviews, payment processing. Your team approves the brief and watches the dashboard. We handle the ops.

Creators paid within 14 days of publish
Report

CPM with cap and floor. No padding.

Predictable spend, fair pay, verified views. Mid-campaign and end-of-campaign reports against the view target you locked at signing — not estimated reach.

CPM tiered to your view target
Why Cortex

The best-fit operator for outdoor creator campaigns.

Brands don't need another roster page. They need a partner that runs the whole campaign — sourcing, briefs, contracts, FTC compliance, deliverable reviews, payment, reporting. That's the entire job, and it's all we do.

  1. 01

    End-to-end ops, not introductions.

    Most agencies stop at the intro. We run the full campaign — every contract clause, every FTC line, every payment, every report.

  2. 02

    Outdoor-only roster.

    Every creator on our list lives in the outdoors. No lifestyle creators we ‘also work with,’ no recycled travel vloggers.

  3. 03

    Performance pricing.

    CPM with a view cap and a guaranteed floor. Predictable for finance, fair to creators, no padding.

Lock in your views

Creators paid as your campaign hits its view goals.

You lock in a view target at signing — say 500K views across the integration. Creators are paid against actual views as they accumulate toward that target. Predictable pricing per view, predictable spend, no vanity-reach surprises.

  1. 01

    Goal locked at signing.

    You set the view target. We match it to the right creator tier, audience, and brief.

  2. 02

    Paid as views land.

    Creators are compensated against verified views — not estimated reach. Mid-campaign and end-of-campaign reports show exactly where you are against the target.

  3. 03

    Hands-off for the brand.

    We handle the contract, the brief, the FTC line, payments, and reporting against your view target. Your team approves the brief and watches the dashboard.

What we do

We sit between outdoor brands and the creators their audiences listen to.

01 — Roster

Exclusive outdoor creators.

We sign and represent a tight roster of outdoor-native creators across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. No coordination across five agencies — every booking goes through us.

02 — Match

Brand–creator fit.

We match on audience data, not vibes. Geo, age, content style, prior sponsor performance. The right creator, not the biggest one.

03 — Manage

Contracts to analytics.

Negotiation, FTC-compliant contracts, deliverable reviews, payment processing, and post-campaign reporting. Your team stays out of ops.

How it works

Four steps from intro to report.

01

Discovery call

Thirty minutes. Goals, budget, audience targets, timing. We tell you whether we're the right fit before we send anything.

02

Roster match

Within 48 hours: a shortlist of creators with rates, audience breakdowns, recent performance, and recommended deal structure.

03

Campaign brief

We write the brief, run it past the creator, and lock the integration spec. You approve it once. We handle revisions.

04

Launch & report

Content goes live on the agreed date. Two weeks later you get a full performance report — views, engagement, click-through, attributed conversions.

Talk to us

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outdoor audience?