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Whitelisting

The paid delivery of ads through or with a creator profile or creator content.

Moritz Lambrecht
Moritz Lambrecht
Updated: July 9, 2026

Definition

In influencer marketing, whitelisting usually means permission to use creator content or creator identity for paid ads. It combines native creator communication with paid-media control.

Also known as: Creator Whitelisting, Spark Ads, Partnership Ads

Benefits

Whitelisting can combine the credibility of creator content with targeting, budget control, and testing from paid social.

Strong creator assets can be extended beyond organic reach and used as scalable ads.

Requirements

Platform access, rights, runtime, approval processes, and reporting access must be clarified upfront.

Without clean coordination, whitelisting quickly becomes legally and operationally unclear.

Moritz Lambrecht

About the author

Moritz is an expert in data-driven influencer marketing as well as co-founder and CEO of the influencer marketing agency Ad Specialist. Together with his team, he has already implemented over 10,000 influencer campaigns and managed more than €50 million in advertising budgets for customers such as HelloFresh, Emma, Clark, mymuesli and many other well-known e-commerce companies. His focus is on helping e-commerce companies grow profitably through creative and measurable influencer marketing strategies on channels such as YouTube, Instagram and Twitch.

Through his performance-oriented and effective approach, he has built a reputation as a leading expert and speaker in German e-commerce. In this blog - as well as on LinkedIn and his YouTube channel - he regularly shares valuable insights about data-driven influencer marketing.

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