Niche
How to find yoga 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, 28-42, already bounced off Down Dog subscriptions and a studio intro pack they used twice, watches ‘yoga apps that talk too much’ and tight-hip-from-sitting videos after they close the laptop. They watch home-practice fails, ‘I will not do a 60-minute class after work’, tight-hip-from-sitting, studio-price rants. They already tried Down Dog until the price jumped, a studio intro pack, and YouTube yoga they half-watched while answering Slack. Skip the 300k flexibility creator selling a 30-day split challenge.
Instagram yoga is pose grids and mat affiliates; TikTok after laptop-close is the 12-minute plea. Email that plea.
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 skipping a 45-minute class preview and sitting back down at the laptop. Signal: the same tight-hip-from-sitting face two weeknights in a row.
I prefer email. The contact is usually in a bio next to a 30-day challenge checkout; say this is one app class, not a challenge. 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 home-practice fails, ‘I will not do a 60-minute class after work’, tight-hip-from-sitting, studio-price rants. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram yoga is pose grids and mat affiliates; TikTok after laptop-close is the 12-minute plea. Email that plea.
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 a split-challenge video and the phone will leave the desk-hip 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/yoga-apps.
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