How to find board game collection apps Instagram creators

I still start with the same avatar. Instagram is a different room than TikTok. Reels, the grid, and the bio email are different. The person is not.

The person: US English, 24-42, already bounced off BoardGameGeek they find hostile on a phone and a spreadsheet of plays, watches BGG on a phone is a fight and Friday-night-picker videos at a shelf. They watch BGG-on-phone, Friday-night-picker, we argued rules for 40 minutes, shelf-shame. They already tried BGG on a phone they hate, a spreadsheet of plays, and photos of boxes they cannot search. Skip the 400k board-game-influencer whose grid is a weekly unboxing haul.

Instagram board games are box stills; TikTok at the shelf is the Friday fight. Email the shelf.

What I actually do on Instagram

Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of the person who would download this. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up in Reels and in the feed.

Ideally over 50k average. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.

Example I want to see: someone picking a game for Friday and opening BGG to a page they cannot read. Signal: the same Friday-shelf face two weeks.

I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small Friday-night bio. Just send a short note. Name a real Reel. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. If they won’t, move on.

Reels vs FYP

TikTok’s For You is a night session for BGG-on-phone, Friday-night-picker, we argued rules for 40 minutes, shelf-shame. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram board games are box stills; TikTok at the shelf is the Friday fight. Email the shelf.

Do not copy the TikTok outreach into a DM that looks like a bot. The call is still the job. Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Talent extra.

Like an unboxing haul and you will leave the Friday-picker people. Doing it by hand is kind of soul-crushing. Scout is $1,500/month.

The TikTok-side essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar. First person: How I find influencers. Money: jumptrend.co/for/board-game-collection-apps.

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