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Petra Horak Asked: Aug 2026  In: Discovery & vetting

Can I shortlist influencers based on past campaign performance?

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Shortlisting on past performance is reasonable, read with care. Prior brand work shows whether a creator's audience responds to sponsored content rather than only organic posts. You mostly see the results a creator chooses to show, though, which means weighing it alongside current engagement and audience quality rather than on its own.

A creator is pitching me on a campaign they ran two years ago in a completely different category. Can I shortlist influencers based on past campaign performance?

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Ask which brand and which category. A strong result selling skincare predicts very little about selling software, because the audience bought a recommendation in a context that no longer applies to you.

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Freya Andersen

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Weight recency above the result itself. A campaign two years old was run for a different audience under a different algorithm, and both of those have changed more than the creator has.

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Lucas Moreau

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Past performance earns a place on the shortlist, provided you read it honestly. A creator whose sponsored posts held up against their organic ones has an audience that tolerates promotion, which is a real positive. The catch is visibility, since you tend to see the campaigns a creator is proud of rather than the ones that flopped.

Weigh it beside current engagement and audience authenticity rather than treating a past win as a guarantee. Audiences and algorithms shift, which means a strong result last year may not repeat. Flinque grounds the read with current audience data and a fake-follower score per creator, which keeps a shortlist based on today's reality.

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