Talent identification & vetting
Reputation, audience-fit and prior-controversy checks before any name reaches a shortlist.
Marketing · Celebrity
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
Reputation, audience-fit and prior-controversy checks before any name reaches a shortlist.
Contract terms, usage rights and payment structures negotiated directly, not through an opaque middleman.
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.
Long-term ambassador relationships negotiated and managed end to end, not a single sponsored post treated as the whole program.
Full ad shoot production with talent — creative direction, production crew and post — not a licensed stock photo with a name attached.
Brand films and campaign videos built around the talent's actual presence and delivery, not stock footage with a voiceover.
TV commercial shoots planned and produced with talent — scheduling around their availability through to broadcast-ready delivery.
Photography shot specifically for billboard and hoarding formats — composition and lighting that reads at highway speed, not a resized social post.
Is this you?
You don't need all of them. One is usually enough to justify the call.
Your crypto-native influencer campaigns are working, but you need an audience beyond people already in the space.
You have a major launch moment that would benefit from a recognizable name attached to it.
A prior celebrity partnership turned into a reputational problem because nobody vetted the talent properly.
You know celebrity marketing could work but have no direct access to talent, managers or agents.
You are in a scrutinised category where getting the disclosure wrong is a real problem rather than a technicality.
A single sponsored post isn't the goal — you want a longer-term brand-ambassador relationship.
Sectors
The audience differs, the vetting discipline doesn't.
Mainstream-name visibility timed to a launch's biggest press moment.
Ambassador programs building trust with a mainstream trading audience.
Recognizable-name endorsement for consumer-facing financial products.
Talent partnerships in gaming and entertainment-adjacent categories.
Mainstream visibility for apps competing outside crypto-native attention.
Category-credibility partnerships for infrastructure entering mainstream conversation.
Talent appearances coordinated around major industry conferences.
Recognizable-name partnerships for enterprise brand visibility moments.
Talent tiers
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.
Process
Shortlist built around audience fit and reputation review, not just name recognition alone.
Contract terms, usage rights and disclosure requirements locked before any content gets produced.
Content briefed to fit both brand message and the talent's real voice, launched across coordinated platforms.
Performance tracked against the specific partnership, with the relationship managed for future campaigns.
Case studies
A mainstream-artist partnership and a gaming-category partnership, each built on the same talent-vetting and disclosure discipline.
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.
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.
Why Corum8
Relationships with managers and agents, not a cold-outreach process starting from zero.
Reputation and audience-fit review happens before a name reaches a shortlist, not after a deal is signed.
Disclosure is part of every deliverable from the first draft, not patched in after a complaint.
Deal structuring and usage rights negotiated to protect the brand's interests, not just the talent's.
Celebrity partnerships coordinated alongside the same influencer network used for crypto-native reach.
Ongoing ambassador management for brands that want sustained visibility, not a single post.
What drives scope
Cost is driven by talent tier, deal structure and campaign scope.
Mid-tier recognizable names cost meaningfully less than top-tier global celebrities — fit matters more than fame level.
A single sponsored post is lightest. A multi-campaign ambassador relationship with usage rights is materially more.
A straightforward brand campaign is light. A scrutinised category where every asset goes through your legal team adds real scope.
Talent-generated content alone is simpler than a full creative production involving the talent.
A social-only partnership is lighter than one including live event or conference appearances.
A single-moment activation is one budget. A sustained multi-quarter ambassador program is another.
FAQ
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.