Building Viral Brands Since 2004

We Make Brands Go Viral.

Creators are the best sales army
you'll ever have.

Rick Schirmer
Founder & CEO, ViralBrand

We get thousands of creators talking about your brand. One method, four engines, and two ways in: a Spotlight Campaign or a Signature Campaign.

Why it's different

The problems we solve.

Working with creators is hard before the first post ever goes up. You have to find the right people, work out who is real, and decide who to activate. We do that for you, and we bring you into our whole network.

The problemHow we solve it
You don't know who the right creators are, or which ones are real.We find niche-aligned creators and tastemakers, build a new list for every campaign, and vet everyone who responds.
Do-it-yourself creator software costs around a couple of thousand dollars a month, needs someone hired to run it, and can take months to reach creators at scale.Our team and our own platform do the work, and get in weeks what can take months on your own.
Once creators opt in, you don't know which ones to activate.Responders come back ranked, best fit first, so you know exactly who to activate.
Most agencies go back to the same stable of influencers.We reach out to thousands of creators, and bring you into our whole viral network.
The method

Four engines.

One method runs every campaign. Start with the first engine on its own, or run all four.

Engine 1

Mass outreach

We build a new list for your campaign and reach out to thousands of creators in your niche. They hear about your brand directly, which is awareness in its own right.

Engine 2

Organic activations

A major grassroots outreach. Hundreds of grassroots influencers, mostly nano and micro, post for product, access or a small bonus. It is built for product seeding and awareness.

Engine 3

Paid partnerships

Professional creators and celebrities, paid at their rate. A few names your niche already respects and loves. Their endorsement is a trust signal that gets the grassroots influencers excited to join.

Engine 4

Amplification

The best posts from the campaign, run as paid ads so they reach further.

Major scale

What major scale looks like.

Creators5,500+creators have posted for our campaigns
Posts13,000+posts and Stories about our clients
Potential reach350Mcombined followers of the creators who posted
Your campaign feeYour targets
$25,0002.5 million potential reach and 100 posts
$50,0005 million potential reach and 200 posts
$100,00010 million potential reach and 400 posts

Reach and post figures are targets, delivered on a best-efforts basis. Potential reach counts each creator once. Posts include Stories.

Two ways in

Side by side.

Engine 1 on its own · one time or ongoing

The ViralBrand Spotlight Campaign

$4,995one send · or monthly at 20% off, cancel with 30 days' notice

What you get

  • ✓
    Build your own creator list. A dedicated email about your brand, sent to 7,500 tastemakers and creators in your niche.
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    Want creators? Responders come to you triple-vetted and ranked. Their contacts are yours to keep.
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    Want customers? The email links straight to your offer.
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    A report of who opened, who clicked and who responded.
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    A feature in our monthly themed Spotlight email to our wider creator network.
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    Customer service and support.

You're also invited

To be a guest on ViralBrand TV, to our events at our creator studio on a major Hollywood studio lot, MBS Media Campus, and to sponsor our celebrity and creator events there.

Go viral at major scale · all four engines

The ViralBrand Signature Campaign

From $25,000built around your date

What you get

  • ✓
    A grassroots campaign at major scale. Thousands of creators reached, and hundreds of grassroots influencers posting around your date.
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    A few big names to signal trust. Paid partnerships with professional creators and celebrities your niche respects, so the grassroots influencers get excited to join.
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    Targets for every $10,000: 1 million potential reach and 40 posts.
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    The Story gate. To qualify, every creator shares an Instagram Story of your choice from your feed. Nobody receives product or access until that Story is live.
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    A collaboration hub and CRM, included. Built and managed by us: a branded creator site, offer pages for each tier of creator, and every creator tagged by what they did.
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    A weekly report and one strategy session a month.
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    Paid partnerships and amplification run on a separate budget you set, and you approve each partner.

Only want a celebrity or professional creator partnership? We run those as a standalone Celebrity Campaign too. Ask us on your call.

The details

Which one is yours?

CompareSpotlight CampaignSignature Campaign
Best forEmerging brands, local businesses, agencies, and brands that want to build their own creator networkA major product launch or a major brand launch. Established or emerging, with a significant budget and the goal of putting the brand on the map
Primary goalBuild your own creator list, or put your offer in front of the right tastemakersGo viral at major scale: buzz, reach and engagement around your launch
Other benefitsBrand awareness among tastemakers in your niche, creator contacts you keep, and a place in our networkBrand awareness, social proof, user-generated content, social sharing, engagement, a lift with the algorithm, and visibility when people search for you on social
What you keepEvery creator who opts in. We export them to you if you move onEvery creator who opts in, tagged in a hub and CRM we build and manage for you. We export them to you if you move on

Reach and post figures are targets, delivered on a best-efforts basis. Potential reach is the combined followers of everyone who posted, each creator counted once.

After the campaign

A campaign that leaves you with a network.

A Signature Campaign jumpstarts a flywheel you can keep turning. We build and manage your collaboration hub and your CRM as part of the work, so the creators who join become the start of your own ambassador network, affiliate network and creator partnerships.

01

We build and run your hub

A branded resource site for your creators, offer pages for each tier of creator, and a CRM that tags everyone by what they did. It is included in every Signature Campaign, and our team runs it for you.

02

The creators are yours

Every creator who opts in is yours, on a Spotlight Campaign or a Signature Campaign. If you move on, we export them to you.

03

Stay active between launches

We recommend moving to Spotlight Campaigns to keep your network warm, at 20% off each month. If you pause, your hub stays intact for when you come back.

A Spotlight Campaign does this in a simpler way. We don't build a hub for you; we bring you the opt-ins.

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Collaborations.

Put the machine to work for your brand.
The Team Behind The System

Founder-led. Built by human and machine.

ViralBrand runs as a hybrid operating system. Senior human strategists lead every client engagement. Our ViralBrand Intelligence™ agents handle the volume, speed, and precision work that no human team can match at scale. This is what "Human Influence. Machine Power." actually looks like in production.

Rick Schirmer, MBA
Founder & CEO

Disney-trained, Oxford-educated brand strategist. Pioneered creator affiliate marketing in 2004 at Motive Entertainment, contributing to $2.4B+ in worldwide box office. Founded DBA West and PartnersHub in 2009, one of the first influencer platforms, later acquired by what became Gloo (now Nasdaq: GLOO). Designed the ViralBrand operating system.

Disney · Pixar · Paramount · Walmart · Chick-fil-A · The Chosen
Rachel McCord
Founder

Celebrity entrepreneur, author, producer, and host of Bloomberg TV's "Female Founders." Named "Master of Branding" and "Influencer of Influencers" by the media. Brings deep creator-side expertise to the ViralBrand model: the operator who built one of the most engaged personal brands in lifestyle and fashion.

Bloomberg TV · The McCord List · Fashion · Lifestyle

ViralBrand TV

The series where brands get discovered: the products going viral and the finds worth having. Built for television, streaming, and social, and filmed at our creator studio on the MBS Media Campus lot.

Streaming Across
Apple TV Roku Fire TV Prime Video Spotify iHeartRadio The McCord List Media Network
Recent Wins

The brands going viral right now aren't lucky. They activated the right networks of real humans.

Beauty · DTC
#1 Beauty Brand on TikTok Shop
Dr. Melaxin's Peel Shot
Powered by ViralBrand's creator engine.
Entertainment
3 of the Top 10 of 2025
The Chosen + Top Properties
Top entertainment IPs of 2025 across TV and theaters.
Restaurants · Legacy
20-Year Partnership
Chick-fil-A
Two decades building one of the most beloved viral brands in America.
Brands We've Built Viral For
Disney Walmart Paramount Chick-fil-A Warner Bros. Mercedes-Benz Samsung The Chosen
Want results like these? Put the machine to work for your brand.
Don't Take Our Word For It
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The Kings of Influencer and Viral Marketing
Frank Yablans
Frank Yablans
Former President, Paramount Pictures · Former COO, MGM/UA
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Trailblazers for some of Disney's most iconic campaigns
Jeffrey Schwartz
Jeffrey Schwartz
Disney
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The 'rock stars' of helping brands make emotional connections
Jody Dreyer
Jody Dreyer
Disney

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