{"url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/creator-index-report","lang":"en","kind":"research","title":"The Creator Index Report 2026: what 81,043 creator profiles actually look like","description":"Measured, not estimated: across 81,043 indexed creator profiles, 8.2% show bought-follower patterns, 7.1% publish contact details and 32.8% reach grade A or B. Includes a platform-by-platform table, recomputed daily.","last_updated":"2026-08-27","structured_data":[{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Creator Index Report 2026: what 81,043 creator profiles actually look like","description":"Measured, not estimated: across 81,043 indexed creator profiles, 8.2% show bought-follower patterns, 7.1% publish contact details and 32.8% reach grade A or B. Includes a platform-by-platform table, recomputed daily.","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2026-08-27","dateModified":"2026-08-27","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Koinon Link"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Vessel AI Lab Hongkong"},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://koinonlink.com/research/creator-index-report"},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","inLanguage":"en","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What percentage of influencers have fake followers?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Across 81,043 indexed creator profiles, 8.2% (6,667 accounts) show follower-growth and engagement structures anomalous enough that we move them out of default results. This is our own detection, not a platform-official flag: it means \"worth a manual check\", not confirmed fraud."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"What share of creators publish contact details on their profiles?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Of the 74,376 validated profiles, 7.1% publish an email, Telegram or Discord handle you can reach directly. The spread by platform is wide: X (Twitter) at 24.7%, while on 3 platforms in this index almost nobody publishes one."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Where does this report get its data?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"From 81,043 creator accounts that Koinon Link collects by industry keyword and validates one by one — not a survey, not a platform press release, and not re-quoted from another report. It is not every creator on these platforms and not a random sample; it skews toward AI software, e-commerce and gaming. Figures recompute daily."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Can I cite this report?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes. The statistics are licensed CC BY 4.0 — attribute \"Koinon Link\" and link to this page. A copy-ready citation and a machine-readable version are at the bottom of this page. Figures recompute daily, so please include the data date when citing."}}]}],"related":[{"title":"We screened 81,043 creator accounts: Threads has the highest share of suspected inflated followers at 15.5%","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/fake-follower-rate-by-platform"},{"title":"The hidden cost of creator outreach: 24.2% of X (Twitter) creators publish contact details — on 3 platforms almost none do","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/creator-contactability-by-platform"},{"title":"After analysing 12,851 \"AI creators\": 32.1% have audiences that are general consumers, not practitioners","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/who-actually-follows-ai-creators"},{"title":"The hidden overlap in multi-platform outreach: 1,358 accounts are really 643 people","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/same-creator-across-platforms"},{"title":"Only 8.9% reach decision makers: audience seniority across 12,796 AI creators","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/ai-creator-audience-seniority"},{"title":"Creator engagement-rate benchmarks: measured on 11,517 accounts — Xiaohongshu (RED) median 8.10%, 34× the X (Twitter) median","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/engagement-rate-benchmarks-by-platform"},{"title":"Creator rate benchmarks from real engagement on 1,177 accounts: fair ranges by follower tier, fully recomputable","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/creator-rate-benchmarks"},{"title":"24,995 audience personas measured: follower count is not audience quality","url":"https://koinonlink.com/research/audience-value-vs-follower-count"}],"license":"CC BY 4.0","citation":"Koinon Link (2026). The Creator Index Report 2026: what 81,043 creator profiles actually look like. Data as of 2026-08-27. https://koinonlink.com/research/creator-index-report","provenance":{"source":"Koinon Link (koinonlink.com)","publisher":"Vessel AI Lab Hongkong","licence":"CC BY 4.0 — attribution with a link to the source page required","method":"Measured over the Koinon Link index of creator accounts, recomputed daily. Not a random sample of any platform: collection is keyword-driven and skews toward software, gaming and e-commerce.","authenticity_note":"\"suspected_inflated\" is our own anomaly detection (follower-growth shape, engagement-to-follower ratio, engagement templating), not a platform-official flag. It means \"worth a manual check\", not confirmed fraud.","privacy_note":"Aggregate statistics only. Individual creator identities, contact details and per-creator audience personas are never exposed through this interface."}}