Creator Partnership Program

We built the deal
we wish we'd been offered.

We spent years shooting hotels with no way to prove our work drove a single booking — and no reason to make another post like the one that worked. This program is the fix. You get paid to bring a property on board, and paid again when your content performs.

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Two Ways In

Bring a property, or join the roster

The first pays more, and it's the one this program is really built around.

Primary Path

Bring a property

You already know which hotels need this — the ones you've shot for, and the ones you've always wanted to. Introduce one, and when they come on board you're paid a flat onboarding fee.

Start with the ones that already went viral. If a post you made about a property took off, that property is close to an ideal candidate. You've already proven you can create demand for it — what was missing was anything to catch that demand and show the property where it went. That's precisely the gap the Engine fills, and you're the one person who can point at the evidence.
  • Works whether or not you've worked with them before — a cold introduction counts
  • Flat fee per property, paid on onboarding
  • Then the performance payout on top, as your content produces qualified leads
Flat onboarding fee + tiered performance payout
Secondary Path

Join the roster

No property to introduce right now? Join the roster and we'll come to you when a property already running the Engine needs content.

  • No cost, no exclusivity
  • Same tracking and same performance payout
Tiered performance payout
How the Payout Works

Tiered, tracked, and capped — on purpose

Every number below comes from the same attribution system our properties pay for. You're not being asked to trust a screenshot.

Your Content, Tracked

The part that was always missing
A link that belongs to you
Every click, lead, and booking it produces is attributed back to you — across the full six-to-eight-week decision window, not the 24 hours after you post.
Hosted stay, if you need one
Haven't shot the property before? We arrange the stay. Already worked with them and have footage? We can often start from that instead.
A page built around your work
Your audience doesn't land on a generic property page. We build one matched to what you made, so the story holds from the post to the booking — which is also what makes your numbers look like your numbers.

The Tiers

Performance moves you up
You earn on qualified leads
Payouts are tiered and trigger on qualified leads — someone who submits their contact details through your link and passes the Engine's verification check. Not views, not clicks.
Confirmed bookings can earn more
When a lead you produced converts into a confirmed booking, that can pay on top of the lead payout.
Each campaign has a ceiling
Once you hit the top tier, that campaign's payout is complete. We'd rather tell you the ceiling exists than let you find it.

After the Ceiling

Two ways to keep earning
Whitelisting fees
If the property wants to put ad budget behind your content from your handle, that's paid separately — and it's always your call.
They bring you back
A new campaign starts a new payout. And hitting the ceiling is the argument for being asked back.
Why the ceiling is the point
Reaching the top tier is documented proof that your content didn't just create demand — it captured it. That record is yours, and it will make negotiating a campaign with your next property much easier.

What counts as a qualified lead

A qualified lead is someone who submits their contact details through your tracked link and passes the Engine's verification check. Not a view, not a click, not a follow — a real person who entered their details and cleared verification.

It's the same standard the property's own reporting runs on, because it's the same system producing both numbers. You aren't being measured against a different bar than the people paying for the campaign, and you can ask to see the count at any point.

Why you're paid on leads, not just bookings

The distance between a qualified lead and a confirmed booking is the property's job, not yours — their rates, their availability, how quickly somebody answers an email. You can send genuinely interested guests to a hotel that takes four days to reply, and none of that is inside your control.

So the payout triggers on the part that is: qualified leads your content demonstrably generated. A confirmed booking can earn more on top of that. What you don't do is absorb the cost of someone else's slow inbox.

Why tracking is on your side

Attribution usually gets sold as something that protects the brand — proof they're not wasting money. It cuts the other way just as hard. Without it, a creator who genuinely drove twelve qualified leads is paid the same as one who drove none, and has nothing to point at when negotiating the next deal.

Every partnership leaves you with a record of what your work actually produced. That's yours, here or anywhere else.

Who this is for

Travel, hospitality, and lifestyle creators whose audiences actually take trips. We care more about whether your audience trusts you than how many of them there are — a small, engaged following in the right niche routinely outperforms a large passive one, and the attribution data is where that stops being an opinion.

On the fee

The onboarding fee is a flat amount per property, confirmed when you apply. If you'd rather know the number before you spend time on an introduction, ask us first — we'll tell you.

Got a property in mind?

Tell us where you post and which hotel you're thinking of. No cost, no exclusivity, and a straight answer either way.

Apply as a Creator Partner