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BETA: Choose a Brief Type

This article explains the key differences between Flexible Briefs and Standard Briefs

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Written by Janine Borrega
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💡 This feature is currently in beta. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvement, please contact our Support team by emailing [email protected].

Aspire's online flows are flexible and allow brands to build any number of dynamic collaborations with creators. There are two types of briefs that you can send to creators: Standard or Flexible:

Standard Briefs

What are Standard Briefs? Standard Briefs are an easy-to-understand guide between the brand and the creator. It provides an overview of the content requirements, due dates, and other collaboration details that will help ensure that all parties involved have a shared understanding of the project expectations.

Standard Briefs also allow you add Special Terms and Conditions. If you have additional contract language, you can use Special Terms and Conditions to attach a single PDF with your legal language to all influencer briefs.

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This will also require that influencers check to confirm they have read and agree to the additional terms. This is very similar to ‘terms and services’ agreements for websites and valuable if you’d like to add any boiler plate legal language to your briefs with creators that would otherwise be focused around the content requirements.

What’s needed to set this up:

  • A PDF contract that is standardized for all creators. Please send this to your CSM or email [email protected] for assistance setting this up.

Flexible Briefs

Flexible Briefs are an easy-to-set-up guide that brands can send to creators, giving them the freedom to share content on any platform they prefer, without strict guidelines from brands.

Flexible Briefs

Standard Briefs

Flexible content types - Give creators the option to do any one of requested content types (E.g. Share an IG Post, IG Reel or TikTok Video).

Creators can edit briefs - Creators can negotiate details of the collaboration by proposing edits to the brief.

Optional deadlines - No hard deadlines for producing content.

Ads Permissions - Request permissions upfront for Instagram Paid Partnership Ads, Allowlisting, or TikTok Spark Ads.

Easy to use templates - All inputs can be pre-configured as templates, making it simple to send briefs with just one click.

Reviewing content before posting - Approve content before creators can post it.

Bulk editing of payments - Customize payments for individual creators being sent briefs in bulk.

Special Terms and Conditions - attach a single PDF with your legal language to all influencer briefs.

When to use a flexible or standard briefs

We recommend using Flexible Briefs if the following conditions are true for your campaign:

  1. You have to activate a large number of creators and want the most frictionless experience possible.

  2. You don’t mind what content type (e.g 1 IG Reel or 1 TikTok video) creators use for their content.

  3. You don’t have hard deadlines for producing content and want to let creators choose when they want to post.

  4. You are sending briefs to creators with a fixed flat fee payment or no payment at all.

  5. You do not require creators to submit content for review.

On the other hand, we recommend using standard briefs if the following conditions apply:

  1. You want the creator to produce content using a predefined content type (1 IG Reel AND 1 TikTok video).

  2. You have hard deadlines for producing content and would like the creator to adhere to them.

  3. You want to request ad permissions upfront at the time of sending briefs.

  4. You want to offer different flat fee payment amounts across different creators being sent briefs.

  5. You want to review and approve content before it is posted live.

💡 Since this feature is still in Beta, please take note of the following:
1. Creators would need to link their Instagram insights to Aspire before they can submit an IG Story deliverables
2. There isn't a way yet to submit Pinterest Pins through Flexible briefs

Set up your brief template

Once you know which brief type you want to use for your project, from the brief tab, you can select your Brief type. Flexible Briefs will be the default Brief type for all projects.

Next steps for setting up briefs

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