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Ames Create Reports a Wide Gap Between Offers and Deals
· New York time
Brands opened sponsored-video negotiations at a median of $433, while deals negotiated by Ames Create closed at a median of $1,250, according to the studio’s data reported by Net Influencer. The figures cover 124 brand-deal conversations between February 2024 and October 2026. Ames Create negotiates for creators, giving it a commercial interest in demonstrating the value of negotiation. Its figures describe that collection of conversations, not an industry-wide pay increase. Comparing the medians also does not establish an identical increase in each negotiation. Still, the gap makes an opening offer look less like a final valuation and more like the first draft of a budget’s autobiography. In these conversations, the median number that began the discussion was substantially below the median number at the end. Apparently the budget had more character development available.
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