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  I have been building an audience for 5 months and have no idea how brand deals actually work. Someone please explain this to me like I’m an idiot.

  Posted by Southern_Cod7266 on May 10, 2026 at 7:39 pm

  

  Okay so I'm going to lay out my situation and hopefully someone who actually knows this space can tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I should be doing.

  I run a faceless content page. Short videos, facts-based, dark history and corporate stuff. Been posting since December across Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

  Current numbers:

  Facebook – 9,400 followers, 2-3 million views per month, monetized,
  Instagram – 16,000 followers, 5.1 million views in the last 30 days, 5 reels crossed 2 million views individually

  Combined monthly reach is somewhere around 10 to 12 million. Audience is 70% American, rest is UK, Canada, Australia. Mostly 35-44 age group, predominantly male.

  I have been making basically nothing from this despite these numbers and it's genuinely frustrating because I keep seeing people with way smaller pages talk about brand deals and sponsored posts like it's normal. I don't understand the system at all. Like actually don't understand it.

  Some specific things I'm confused about:

  What do I even charge for a sponsored reel? I have seen numbers ranging from $50 to $50,000 and I have no reference point for where someone with my stats should be.

  Do brands come to you or do you go to them? And if you go to them, where? Cold email? DM? Some platform I don't know about?

  What are brands actually looking at before they say yes? Is it follower count, views, engagement rate, audience location, niche? Because my niche is pretty broad general facts and history and I don't know if that's a problem.

  Is there a media kit thing I need? What goes in it?

  Are there industries or types of companies that specifically pay well for this kind of reach? I've heard SaaS and apps pay more than physical products but I don't know if that's true.

  I feel like I'm sitting on something that should be making real money and I'm too clueless to convert it. If anyone has been through this or works on the brand side and can tell me what you actually look for when you're finding creators to work with, I would genuinely appreciate it.

  Not looking for a course or a consultation offer, just real answers from people who know how this works.

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