How to write an outdoor apparel brand creator brief

An outdoor apparel brand creator brief is not a media-plan age band. It is a session: a person, a problem, a pattern of watch-time. I write it before I open a fresh account.

The sentence I actually scroll as: the client’s customer is US English, 26-42, already bounced off a fashion-outdoor jacket that wet out on mile two and a Patagonia wait they cannot get, watches ‘this jacket wet out’ and parking-lot-trailhead videos before a Saturday hike.

Problem in their mouth: It looked like a hiking jacket in the photo and it wet out on mile two.

Already tried: a fashion-outdoor jacket that wet out, a Patagonia they cannot get in size, and a cheap Amazon rain shell.

Watch: wet-out rants, trailhead parking-lot, ‘fashion outdoor’, layering-fails.

Reject: the 600k trail influencer whose grid is brand trips.

Adjacent: wet-out, trailhead, not summit selfies for a trip.

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What to put on the page you send a creator

That later page is not the avatar brief. The avatar brief is for the phone. The creator page is: one mechanic, one CTA, one forbid list.

Mechanic: a live rain jacket in two colors, or a fleece the client has in the size on the site. The client’s live PDP with real sizes.

CTA: Wear the in-stock size in rain, show the inside, drop the code.

Forbid: Do not ask for a summit. Ask them to walk in rain in the size that is in stock. No medical claims. No fake “not sponsored” energy when you paid them.

The jacket on a real wet walk, not a studio fog machine. If they never open the product, the video will be a read-through of your website.

What to ignore

Follower counts, “micro vs macro,” competitor creator lists, and anything that starts with #gorpcore. Those belong in the outreach spreadsheet, after you have names from a feed.

Also ignore “make it go viral.” An avatar brief cannot promise that. It can only promise match.

Example video to have in your head while you write: someone wringing out a fashion jacket at a trailhead.

Wet-out rants already have the audience; a jacket that is actually in stock in their size is the demo.

Scout is $1,500/month for the list that comes out of this brief. You approve every creator and every rate. No demo. No download guarantee.

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