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Book a call →Creator Whitelisting explained in plain English: how it works, how to set it up step by step, and the questions brands ask most.
Creator whitelisting means a creator gives a brand permission to run paid ads under the creator's name and profile. The brand controls the budget, targeting and ad copy; viewers see the ad as coming from the creator. On Meta this is done with partnership ads, and on TikTok with Spark Ads.
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Normally a brand runs ads from its own page. With whitelisting, the creator grants the brand access to advertise through the creator's account. The ad shows the creator's name and photo, so it reads as a recommendation from a person rather than a message from a company.
The brand still pays for the media and sees the results in its own ad account. The creator doesn't need to manage anything after giving permission.
Meta's current tool for this is partnership ads (it replaced the older branded content ads). The creator and brand connect their accounts, the creator approves the brand as a partner, and the brand can then run ads that show both names. The brand can use an existing post from the creator or create the ad from content the creator supplied.
On TikTok, whitelisting runs through Spark Ads: the creator posts the video and gives the brand an authorization code for it, and the brand runs that post as an ad.
On YouTube, Google's version of whitelisting is partnership ads (built on YouTube BrandConnect and now part of Google's Creator Partnerships tools). The creator links one of their videos to the brand's Google Ads account; the brand then runs it as an ad from the creator's channel in campaigns such as Demand Gen, Video and Performance Max.
Linking the video only lets the brand promote it. Google states that the advertiser still needs sufficient rights to use the video as an ad, so agree usage rights, the time period and the fee in writing first, just as you would for Meta or TikTok.
Sources: Google Ads Help: Partnership ads powered by BrandConnect
| What the brand gets | Whose name is on the ad | |
|---|---|---|
| Usage rights | Permission to use the creator's video in its own ads | The brand's |
| Whitelisting | Permission to advertise through the creator's account | The creator's (and on Meta, both) |
| Dark post | An ad that never appears on the page's public feed | Either; it describes where it shows, not who |
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