Influencer Response vs Ykone: What Happened to Influencer Response
One of these is not a live option. The name was folded into Acceleration Partners and is no longer used. Ykone 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.
Look up Influencer Response if
- You are checking whether Influencer Response still trades
- You want to be pointed at Acceleration Partners instead
- You need to rule Influencer Response in or out
Choose Ykone if
- You are a luxury, fashion or beauty brand
- You want global, multi-market campaigns
- You want proprietary influencer tech
Choose Flinque if
- 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 Response vs Ykone vs Flinque
The factors below are set out for both. Only Ykone is a live option. The name was folded into Acceleration Partners and is no longer used. Flinque is the flat-price software option on the right.
| Factor | Influencer Response | Ykone | Best valueFlinque |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Not available, brand absorbed | Luxury, fashion and beauty brands | Teams running discovery in-house |
| Agency type | Pay-per-action performance agency | Global luxury influencer agency | Self-serve software, not an agency |
| Engagement model | Cost-per-action, results-priced | Custom, enterprise scope | Flat monthly subscription |
| Typical minimum | Pay for tracked outcomes | Undisclosed | Free, then $49/mo |
| Published pricing | None | No | $0 to $150/mo, public |
| Creator network | Tracked-performance creator model | Campaygn platform, 50K+ analyzed | 10M+ verified, 200 data points each |
| Platforms covered | Performance social platforms | Global, all social platforms | Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X |
| Services | CPA campaigns, tracked results | Strategy, data, production, talent | Discovery, vetting and audience data |
| Campaign management | fully managed | fully managed | You run it, software assists |
| Content and usage rights | Charges against actions, not posts | Luxury storytelling at scale | You negotiate directly with creators |
| Paid amplification | Owned by Acceleration Partners | Proprietary Campaygn technology | Run your own whitelisting |
| Measurement and reporting | Not available | 16-plus cities, 300+ staff | Audience and fake-follower data built in |
| Team and locations | Not verified first-party | Paris, founded 2008 | Software with support included |
| Time to launch | After scoping and strategy | After scoping and strategy | 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 Influencer Response was
Influencer Response cannot be hired. Two steps ended it: a merger with Volt Agency in May 2022 and an acquisition in December 2022. The evidence is straightforward: the brand is absent from the acquirer's own pages and its domain is dead.
A merger with Volt Agency preceded the Acceleration Partners deal. Just one client appears anywhere first-party, TechStyle Fashion Group. Acceleration Partners now sells the capability as Performance Influencer.
Because Acceleration Partners is itself covered elsewhere, this is effectively a page about one of its predecessors. Acceleration Partners is where the work went.
What Influencer Response was known for
- Cost-per-acquisition pricing models
- Response measurement rather than reach
- Podcast advertising in particular
- A model that fitted performance buyers
Why it is not a live option
- The capability was renamed
- The brand was absorbed in December 2022
- Every fact comes from an April 2022 capture
- Only one client was ever published
What is Ykone
Ykone is the agency luxury houses turn to for influencer work at a global scale. It is now part of the ONE group after the January 2026 Mirror Mirror merger. Founded in Paris in 2008 by Olivier Billon, it is a leading international influencer marketing agency dedicated to luxury, beauty, fashion, travel and lifestyle brands, counting Dior and Chanel among its earliest clients back in 2008. Its edge is a mix of prestige expertise and proprietary technology: it launched Campaygn in 2013, a platform that analyzes the audience and universe of more than 50,000 influencers in real time, plus it has built integrated capabilities spanning strategy, data, in-house production and talent management. With a presence across 16-plus cities on several continents and a team past 300, it runs international campaigns rooted in local culture, recently combining with a production house to deepen its creative offering. Next to Influencer Response's performance model, Ykone is the global luxury influencer leader.
Pricing is custom and unpublished, scoped to enterprise luxury campaigns, so it begins with a conversation. What you are buying is prestige expertise plus reach: deep luxury, fashion and beauty knowledge, the proprietary Campaygn platform for influencer analysis, in-house production and a global footprint that localizes campaigns across markets. For a luxury or fashion brand that wants polished, worldwide creator work, that combination is the draw. The tradeoffs follow. It is built for luxury and prestige brands at enterprise scale, so a small or purely performance-focused brand is outside its core, it does not run a pay-per-action model billed on tracked results. And as a managed agency there is no self-serve tier. There is nothing current to compare on this point, since Influencer Response is not a going concern.
What Ykone does well
- Leading luxury and fashion influencer agency
- Proprietary Campaygn analysis platform
- Global footprint across 16-plus cities
- In-house production and talent management
Where it falls short
- Built for luxury and prestige brands
- No pay-per-action, results-billed model
- Enterprise scale, not small budgets
- No self-serve tier, fully managed
Head to head
This pairing needs a caveat before the detail. It merged with Volt Agency in May 2022 and Acceleration Partners announced the acquisition of both that December. Influencer Response is a retired brand now. The evidence is straightforward: the name appears nowhere on Acceleration Partners' current influencer service page, which sells the capability as Performance Influencer. Since Ykone is the one still trading, what follows is mostly an account of Influencer Response.
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 Influencer Response
That is not a comparison Influencer Response can be part of any more.
→ Read the historyYou are a luxury or fashion brand
You want global, prestige-grade campaigns with proprietary influencer tech and in-house production. Ykone fits.
→ Pick YkoneYou want to run discovery in-house
No retainer, no scoping call. You want to search 10M+ verified creators across four platforms with a fake-follower check on each. Start free on Flinque and upgrade at $49 only if you keep using it.
→ 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
If both feel like too much retainer and too little control, Flinque does one job and does it well. Find and vet real creators yourself, fast, then run the campaign in-house. No pitch deck, no monthly retainer, no discovery call to learn the price.
- 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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