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Nano, micro, mid-tier or macro: which influencer type should you choose?
The difference between nano, micro, mid-tier and macro influencers, whether micro-influencers perform better and when 20 micros beat one macro.
What is the difference between nano, micro, mid-tier and macro influencers?
The difference is community size. In the Unify platform, nano means under 10,000 followers, micro 10,000 to 100,000, mid-tier 100,000 to 250,000, macro 250,000 to 1 million, and above 1 million is mega. These thresholds are not a legal standard and differ between agencies.
For planning, size matters less than role: nano and micro creators bring closeness and credibility in a niche, mid-tier and macro creators bring broad reach quickly. Final selection checks each creator’s relevant audience, content quality and past results.
Do micro-influencers perform better than bigger influencers?
Not always. Micro-influencers often have a closer relationship with their audience and higher engagement rates, while larger influencers deliver wider distribution. Which performs better depends on the objective: awareness, consideration or sales. Unify compares results against the same objective and the same metric definitions.
Engagement rate alone does not prove sales or economic efficiency. Compare cost per view, relevant reach and, where measurable, conversions.
Should I work with 20 micro-influencers or 1 macro-influencer?
It depends on the objective. Twenty micro-influencers give you more voices, more content and coverage across niches, but need coordination. One macro concentrates distribution and simplifies production, but puts the whole result on one person. Unify compares scenarios by total budget, relevant reach, content volume and risk.
In practice, many brands combine both: one large creator for visibility and several smaller creators for credibility and content volume that can later be reused in ads.
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