Influencer.com vs IMA: What Happened to IMA
One of these is not a live option. IMA no longer trades under its own name; the 2019 merger put the work inside Monks. Influencer.com is the side you can actually brief.
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Which one is right for you
Three buyers, three picks. Find the column that sounds like your team.
Choose Influencer.com if
- You want a creator-founded agency
- You value six official platform partnerships
- You run broad campaigns across verticals
Look up IMA if
- You need to rule IMA in or out
- You arrived on this name and meant Monks
- You need the history rather than a supplier
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- You want verified creators and fake-follower checks with no sales call
- You want flat published pricing you can start free
- You want to run discovery in-house, not hand it to an agency
Influencer.com vs IMA vs Flinque
The factors below are set out for both. Only Influencer.com is a live option. IMA has not been a hireable name since MediaMonks absorbed it in 2019. Flinque is the flat-price software option on the right.
| Factor | Influencer.com | IMA | Best valueFlinque |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Global brands across verticals | Not available, brand retired | Teams running discovery in-house |
| Agency type | Creator-founded global agency | Europe's largest full-service agency | Self-serve software, not an agency |
| Engagement model | Custom, enterprise campaigns | Custom, full-service | Flat monthly subscription |
| Typical minimum | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Free, then $49/mo |
| Published pricing | No | None, nor any at Monks | $0 to $150/mo, public |
| Creator network | Longstanding talent relationships | Worldwide creator reach | 10M+ verified, 200 data points each |
| Platforms covered | Six platforms, managed | All platforms, global | Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X |
| Services | Strategy, creative, media | Strategy, creative, production | Discovery, vetting and audience data |
| Campaign management | fully managed | fully managed | You run it, software assists |
| Content and usage rights | Waves operating system | Worldwide production scale | You negotiate directly with creators |
| Paid amplification | Six platform partnerships | Backed by S4 and MediaMonks | Run your own whitelisting |
| Measurement and reporting | London-born, 200+ global staff | Not available | Audience and fake-follower data built in |
| Team and locations | After scoping and strategy | Amsterdam, until 2019 | Software with support included |
| Time to launch | Best for platform-partner reach | Best for European scale | Shortlist in minutes on the free plan |
How we compared: Engagement models and minimums come from each agency's own site plus public reporting and client reviews, cross-checked and dated June 2026. Where an agency hides its pricing we say undisclosed rather than guess a number. The verdicts are ours, not the agencies'.
What each agency actually does
What is Influencer.com
Influencer.com holds an origin story few competitors can claim: a creator helped found it. Ben Jeffries launched it as a teenager in London in 2015 alongside YouTube star Caspar Lee. Over ten years it became what it bills as the largest independent creator marketing agency, its team now beyond 200 across three regions. Its sharpest asset is access to the platforms: official global marketing partner status at six networks together, a lineup spanning Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snap, Pinterest and Twitch that hardly any rival can match, which eases early features, escalations and delivery between markets. Its own Waves system runs the client and creator workflow start to finish. It serves every vertical at enterprise scale for the likes of Nike, Google, Disney and Coca-Cola. Against IMA's European production scale, Influencer.com is the creator-founded global agency.
Rates are bespoke and unposted, set for enterprise campaigns, so the first step is a conversation. What a brand gets is a campaign run on its behalf with creator-founder instinct plus platform reach: six formal partnerships smoothing network access, the Waves layer moving delivery between markets and a team owning the whole arc from strategy to execution. For a worldwide brand running wide-ranging creator work, that depth is the pull. The catches follow. No self-serve platform or posted rate is on offer. Smaller brands fall outside the model. And it favors managed campaigns over IMA's heavy production and creative scale. IMA has no live answer here.
What Influencer.com does well
- Co-founded by a creator, not only admen
- Official partner across six platforms
- Serves every vertical at enterprise scale
- Its Waves system runs the workflow
Where it falls short
- No self-serve platform or published rate
- Built for enterprise, not small brands
- Lighter on heavy production than IMA
- Custom quotes, scoping call required
What IMA was
MediaMonks, part of S4 Capital, merged with it in August 2019. Today IMA is a closed chapter: imagency.com redirects to the Monks influencer marketing page and monks.com/ima returns a 404.
It was renamed Media.Monks in 2021 and Monks in 2024. Its own billing at the merger was Europe's largest agency of its kind. Pricing was looked for on the Monks influencer solution page and was not found there.
Nothing published since 2019 updates these numbers, so none should be inferred. Monks is where the work went.
What IMA was known for
- Fashion and beauty campaign work
- Clients S4 Capital named including Heineken and Diesel
- Fashion, retail, travel and consumer electronics work
- Full-service influencer campaigns out of Amsterdam
Why it is not a live option
- Every figure on record is dated 2019
- No current client list exists under it
- The brand no longer exists to hire
- No current network size is published
Head to head
This is not a comparison of two suppliers. IMA cannot be engaged today. S4 Capital folded it into MediaMonks in August 2019. The evidence is straightforward: imagency.com redirects to the Monks influencer marketing page and monks.com/ima returns a 404. Set against Influencer.com, IMA has nothing current to offer on this point.
Which should you actually pick
Forget the pitch decks for a second. Match the partner to the situation you are in.
You arrived looking for IMA
Where IMA went is Monks.
→ Read the historyYou want to run discovery in-house
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→ Pick FlinqueYou want verified creators without a retainer
Both agencies run managed work and quote custom. Flinque's free plan lets you find and vet verified creators with no card, then scales at a flat $49 a month.
→ Start with FlinqueFlinque: verified discovery at a flat price
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- 10M+ verified creators
- 4 platforms: IG, YouTube, TikTok, X
- 200 data points per creator
- 12 search filters
- Fake-follower check on every profile
- Free, $49, $150, published
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