A++ER: 8.5%
Janice Hopkins
Instagram8.5K
Fashion
TAABINGA, QLDAvailable
Australian Micro-Influencer Marketplace
Find micro-influencers your brand can actually trust .
Browse AI-verified Australian creators with 1K–10K engaged followers on TikTok and Instagram. Post a brief, accept applications, and run your first campaign — all without an agency, a spreadsheet, or a cold DM.
Free to start · No credit card required
Micro Influencers. Mega Results.
Verified Australian Micro-Influencers — High Engagement Rate
A++ER: 8.5%
Harry Hat
Instagram5.4K
Outdoor Adventure
WILLETTON, WAAvailable
A++ER: 8.5%
Mary Magdala
Instagram8K
FashionNails/Nail Art
WHYALLA STUART, SAAvailable
A++ER: 8.5%
Sarah Baseley
TikTok4.6K
Fashion
MORDIALLOC, VICAvailable
EliteER: 23.1%
Ashley Oultram
Instagram4.3K
FashionMakeup
PAKENHAM, VICAvailable
EliteER: 21.8%
Kaitlyn Burrows
Instagram5.1K
FashionMakeup
Nelligen, NSWAvailable
ViralER: 29.8%
Jack Elwood
TikTok8.5K
Health & Fitness
COLAC, VICAvailable
A++ER: 8.5%
Harry Hasit
TikTok5.5K
DanceComedy/Humor
MARYBOROUGH, QLDBooked
THE PROBLEM
Most ways to find micro-influencers waste your week.
If you've tried this before, one of these probably stopped you cold.
Agencies cost a fortune
Talent agencies charge retainers and stack a markup on top of every creator fee. By the time the brief lands, you've burned half your campaign budget on middle layers.
Manual scraping doesn't scale
Cold-DMing creators from a Notion list works for two influencers, not twenty. By creator #15 you're chasing replies, swapping rates, and forgetting who shipped what.
Free databases are a gamble
Free creator search tools surface thousands of profiles with no signal — half are inactive, a quarter buy followers, and none have agreed to apply to anything.
THE MEGA DONKEY WAY
A marketplace where verified creators come to you.
Mega Donkey is built for blanket campaigns — 50 micro-influencers as easily as one. AI verification on entry, escrow on payment, and zero cold outreach.
1
Post a brief
Set the platform (TikTok, Instagram or both), the deliverables, the fixed rate, and your audience target. Two minutes from blank screen to live.
2
Accept applications
AI-verified micro-influencers apply within hours. Each application includes follower band, engagement rate, audience location and content samples.
3
Approve content
Drafts come through the platform for one round of revisions. Funds stay in escrow until you approve and the post goes live.
4
Pay on delivery
Stripe releases payment automatically after publication. No invoices, no chasing, no per-creator finance loop.
WHY MICRO
Why micro-influencers (1K–10K) outperform macro-creators.
3–7× higher engagement
Micro and nano-influencers consistently post engagement rates above 5%, where macro-influencers struggle to clear 1.5%. Smaller audiences pay attention.
Authentic local trust
Australian micro-creators feel like a friend with taste, not a billboard. Recommendations land — especially in food, beauty, fitness, and lifestyle.
Built for blanket coverage
50 micro-influencers each posting once outperforms one macro-creator posting once — measured in reach, conversions, and earned content you can repurpose.
TRUST
Every creator on the platform is verified before they apply.
PRICING
Start free. Pay only when you run a campaign.
Start free with the Starter plan — browse and shortlist verified creators at no cost, no credit card needed. Paid plans start at $79/month when you're ready to run campaigns at scale.
QUESTIONS
How brands actually find micro-influencers in 2026.
The fastest route is a marketplace where micro-creators have already verified their accounts and opted in to apply. On Mega Donkey, you post a brief, set a fixed rate, and AI-verified Australian micro-influencers (1K–10K followers) apply within hours. You shortlist from the applicants — no cold outreach, no scraping Instagram lists.
Three routes in order of effort: (1) influencer marketplaces like Mega Donkey, where verified creators apply to your brief; (2) talent agencies, which charge a markup and lock you into retainers; (3) manual outreach via DMs and creator hashtags, which scales poorly past 10–15 creators per campaign.
Mega Donkey verifies creators across both TikTok and Instagram before they can apply to anything. You can filter applicants by platform, niche, audience location and follower band. If you want a TikTok-only or Instagram-only dive, see our dedicated guides for finding TikTok influencers and finding Instagram influencers.
Yes — the Mega Donkey Starter plan is free. You only pay the influencer fee plus the standard escrow transaction charge. There's no per-search fee, no data export fee, and no AI 'token cost'.
Nano-influencers usually have 1K–10K followers; micro-influencers are 10K–100K (sometimes labelled 1K–10K depending on who you ask). Mega Donkey's verified pool covers both bands. The economics are similar: small-but-engaged audiences, lower fees per post, and dramatically higher engagement rates than macro-influencers.
Australian micro-influencer rates typically run from $80 to $400 per piece of content depending on platform, deliverables and follower band. On Mega Donkey you set a fixed rate up-front in your brief, so applicants self-select on price — no per-creator negotiation.
Use escrow. Mega Donkey holds funds in Stripe escrow from the moment you accept an application, and creators are only paid after you approve published content that meets the brief. If a creator no-shows, the money returns to your account.
Start free today
Find your first 50 micro-influencers this week.
Create a free account, post a brief, and watch verified Australian creators apply. No credit card. No agency. No spreadsheet.
AI-verified Australian creators
Escrow-protected payments
Cancel any time
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