Marketing · Celebrity

We build mainstream reach.

A vetted talent network with direct relationships across mainstream talent management. Celebrity and mainstream-figure partnerships negotiated end to end — talent vetting, deal structure, disclosure and measurement.

Corum8 negotiates and runs celebrity and mainstream-figure marketing partnerships for Web3, fintech and consumer brands — talent identification, deal structuring, campaign execution with disclosure handled properly, and measurement, distinct from crypto-native influencer and KOL work. We work directly with talent management agencies to secure vetted mainstream names. This is mainstream-audience reach through vetted, contractually sound partnerships, not a cold DM to a celebrity's manager.

What's included

Everything under “celebrity marketing” that we actually run

Talent identification & vetting

Reputation, audience-fit and prior-controversy checks before any name reaches a shortlist.

Deal structuring & negotiation

Contract terms, usage rights and payment structures negotiated directly, not through an opaque middleman.

Disclosure written into the brief

Every deliverable carries its disclosure from the first draft rather than having one added after someone complains. What the disclosure has to say is set by the platform rules and your legal team.

Brand ambassador programs

Long-term ambassador relationships negotiated and managed end to end, not a single sponsored post treated as the whole program.

Ad shoot & campaign production

Full ad shoot production with talent — creative direction, production crew and post — not a licensed stock photo with a name attached.

Brand video production

Brand films and campaign videos built around the talent's actual presence and delivery, not stock footage with a voiceover.

TV shoot planning & production

TV commercial shoots planned and produced with talent — scheduling around their availability through to broadcast-ready delivery.

Photoshoots for hoardings & OOH

Photography shot specifically for billboard and hoarding formats — composition and lighting that reads at highway speed, not a resized social post.

Is this you?

Signals celebrity marketing is worth the investment

You don't need all of them. One is usually enough to justify the call.

You need mainstream reach, not just crypto-native reach

Your crypto-native influencer campaigns are working, but you need an audience beyond people already in the space.

A launch needs a visibility spike

You have a major launch moment that would benefit from a recognizable name attached to it.

You've been burned by an unvetted deal before

A prior celebrity partnership turned into a reputational problem because nobody vetted the talent properly.

You don't have talent-industry relationships

You know celebrity marketing could work but have no direct access to talent, managers or agents.

Disclosure genuinely matters in your category

You are in a scrutinised category where getting the disclosure wrong is a real problem rather than a technicality.

You want ongoing ambassador relationships

A single sponsored post isn't the goal — you want a longer-term brand-ambassador relationship.

Sectors

Where we run celebrity programs

The audience differs, the vetting discipline doesn't.

A token on a launch pad with a rocket lifting away

Token Launches & TGE Moments

Mainstream-name visibility timed to a launch's biggest press moment.

Trading desk monitors showing market data

Exchange & Trading Platforms

Ambassador programs building trust with a mainstream trading audience.

Bankers shaking hands across a desk

Fintech Consumer Products

Recognizable-name endorsement for consumer-facing financial products.

A game controller lit by the screen in front of it

Gaming & NFT Projects

Talent partnerships in gaming and entertainment-adjacent categories.

An app open on a phone held in one hand

Consumer App Launches

Mainstream visibility for apps competing outside crypto-native attention.

A designer sketching logo marks beside colour swatches

Web3 Infrastructure Brands

Category-credibility partnerships for infrastructure entering mainstream conversation.

A conference auditorium filled with an audience

Major Event Sponsorships

Talent appearances coordinated around major industry conferences.

Designers reviewing a site layout on screen

Enterprise Brand Campaigns

Recognizable-name partnerships for enterprise brand visibility moments.

Talent tiers

The talent-tier reach ladder

Reach scales with tier, and so does vetting complexity, cost and the deal structure required — illustrative of how the market breaks down, not a specific roster.

50M+ Global Icon Cross-market, cross-platform recognition. Top-tier vetting, negotiation and legal review.
10M–50M A-List Celebrity Strong mainstream recognition within a category or region.
1M–10M Category Leader Deep credibility within a specific category — gaming, sports, entertainment.
100K–1M Rising Talent Fast-growing recognition, often the best cost-to-reach ratio for an early campaign.

Process

How a celebrity-marketing engagement runs, in practice

  1. 01

    Identify and vet talent

    Shortlist built around audience fit and reputation review, not just name recognition alone.

  2. 02

    Negotiate and structure the deal

    Contract terms, usage rights and disclosure requirements locked before any content gets produced.

  3. 03

    Produce and activate the campaign

    Content briefed to fit both brand message and the talent's real voice, launched across coordinated platforms.

  4. 04

    Measure and manage the relationship

    Performance tracked against the specific partnership, with the relationship managed for future campaigns.

Case studies

Celebrity-marketing work we've shipped

A mainstream-artist partnership and a gaming-category partnership, each built on the same talent-vetting and disclosure discipline.

Global Recording Artist Partnership

A mainstream recording artist partnership extended reach into a genuinely mainstream audience

Working directly with the artist's talent management team, Corum8 negotiated and ran a partnership built like any other in this practice: talent vetting, deal structuring and execution with disclosure handled from the first brief, aimed at reaching an audience well beyond crypto-native channels rather than a one-off celebrity mention.

Gaming Project

Category-relevant talent partnership reached a genuinely aligned audience

A gaming project needed a partnership that would feel authentic to its actual player base, not a random celebrity attachment. Selecting talent with real credibility in gaming and entertainment, rather than pure follower-count reach, produced engagement that converted into actual product interest, not just impressions.

25,000+ Creators and talent in network
15+ Verticals covered
2.5B+ Cumulative impressions delivered
10+ Years running talent partnerships

Why Corum8

Why brands run celebrity marketing with us

Direct talent-industry access

Relationships with managers and agents, not a cold-outreach process starting from zero.

Vetting before negotiation

Reputation and audience-fit review happens before a name reaches a shortlist, not after a deal is signed.

Disclosure designed in

Disclosure is part of every deliverable from the first draft, not patched in after a complaint.

Contracts that protect the brand

Deal structuring and usage rights negotiated to protect the brand's interests, not just the talent's.

A 25,000-creator network beyond celebrities

Celebrity partnerships coordinated alongside the same influencer network used for crypto-native reach.

Relationships, not one-off transactions

Ongoing ambassador management for brands that want sustained visibility, not a single post.

What drives scope

What drives scope and budget on a celebrity-marketing program

Cost is driven by talent tier, deal structure and campaign scope.

Talent tier

Mid-tier recognizable names cost meaningfully less than top-tier global celebrities — fit matters more than fame level.

Deal structure

A single sponsored post is lightest. A multi-campaign ambassador relationship with usage rights is materially more.

Review depth

A straightforward brand campaign is light. A scrutinised category where every asset goes through your legal team adds real scope.

Content production needs

Talent-generated content alone is simpler than a full creative production involving the talent.

Event coordination

A social-only partnership is lighter than one including live event or conference appearances.

Campaign duration

A single-moment activation is one budget. A sustained multi-quarter ambassador program is another.

FAQ

Questions worth a direct answer

  1. Celebrity marketing is the identification, vetting and negotiation of partnerships with recognizable mainstream figures — distinct from crypto-native influencer and KOL work, which draws from a different talent pool and audience. The goal is mainstream-audience reach beyond people already following crypto-native creators, with the same measurement discipline applied to any marketing spend.

  2. Cost is driven by talent tier, deal structure, review depth, content production needs, event coordination and campaign duration. A single sponsored post from a mid-tier name is a different budget than a multi-quarter ambassador relationship with a top-tier celebrity including event appearances.

  3. Through reputation review, audience-fit analysis and prior-controversy checks before a name reaches a shortlist. The goal is avoiding a partnership that creates reputational risk for the brand — this vetting happens before any negotiation starts, not as an afterthought.

  4. Disclosure gets written into the campaign brief and contract from the start, not added after content is produced. This includes platform-specific disclosure formatting and, in scrutinised categories, an extra review pass by your own legal team before anything goes live. What the disclosure needs to say is their call and the platform's, not ours — our job is making sure it is in the brief before the talent films anything, rather than bolted on after. Retrofitting a disclosure onto finished content usually means reshooting it.y.

  5. Talent identification and vetting, deal structuring and negotiation, disclosure handling, campaign creative direction, launch coordination, and performance measurement. Scope depends heavily on talent tier and whether the engagement is a single activation or an ongoing ambassador relationship.

  6. Yes — live appearances at product launches, conferences or major industry events are part of the practice, coordinated alongside the talent's content deliverables. Event coordination adds logistics and cost beyond a purely social partnership.

  7. It depends on whether the goal is reaching an audience beyond people already in crypto — celebrity marketing extends reach into mainstream audiences that crypto-native influencer campaigns typically don't touch. It works best paired with, not instead of, an existing crypto-native influencer program.

  8. Genuine audience overlap, and a reason the partnership makes sense to the people watching. The partnerships that perform are the ones where the audience already believes the connection — a figure whose following actually overlaps your buyers, and a creative idea that gives them something to do rather than just a name to recognise. We vet on audience data rather than follower count, structure the deal around real deliverables, and build the disclosure into the brief so nothing has to be reshot later.

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