AER: 8.5%
Janice Hopkins
Instagram8.5K
Fashion
TAABINGA, QLDAvailable
AU-Native Influencer Marketplace · Australia
Find influencers in Australia your brand can actually rely on .
Filter applications by audience location, niche and follower band. AI-verified Australian creators, AUD pricing, and AANA-aligned disclosure baked into every brief.
Free until June for founding brands · No credit card required
Micro Influencers. Mega Results.
Verified Australian Micro-Influencers — High Engagement Rate
AER: 9.0%
Jan Hopkins
TikTok7.1K
FashionMusic/Musicians
FITZROY, VICAvailable
AER: 8.5%
Sarah Baseley
TikTok4.6K
Fashion
MORDIALLOC, VICAvailable
AER: 29.8%
Jack Elwood
TikTok8.5K
Health & Fitness
COLAC, VICAvailable
AER: 9.0%
James Bennet
TikTok4.6K
Health & Fitness
MARANGAROO, WAAvailable
AER: 8.5%
Harry Hat
Instagram5.4K
Outdoor Adventure
WILLETTON, WAAvailable
AER: 8.5%
Harry Hasit
TikTok5.5K
DanceComedy/Humor
MARYBOROUGH, QLDBooked
AER: 9.0%
Sarah McIntosh
TikTok7.9K
FashionMakeup
BURNLEY, VICAvailable
AER: 8.5%
Justice Dangle
Instagram7.7K
FashionHair Care/Styling
TORQUAY, VICAvailable
AER: 11.9%
Ashley Oultram
Instagram4.3K
FashionMakeup
PAKENHAM, VICAvailable
AER: 9.0%
John Baptiss
TikTok4.6K
Health & Fitness
HAWTHORN, VICAvailable
AER: 9.0%
Brett Barrett
TikTok4.2K
Health & FitnessFashion
GREENFIELDS, WAAvailable
AER: 8.5%
Jan Dean
TikTok5K
DanceActing/Film
CARRARA, QLDBooked
AER: 8.5%
Mary Magdala
Instagram8K
FashionNails/Nail Art
WHYALLA STUART, SAAvailable
AER: 9.0%
Ebony Rice
TikTok4.7K
Fashion
SYDENHAM, NSWAvailable
AER: 8.5%
Terry White
Instagram7.7K
Outdoor AdventureTravel
MONASH, SAAvailable
AER: 9.0%
Renee Chalice
TikTok6.5K
Interior DesignHome & Lifestyle
CLUNES, VICAvailable
THE PROBLEM
Most ways to find Australian influencers don't actually find an Australian audience.
The bio says Sydney. The followers live in California. Standard search tools can't tell the difference — and that's where AU campaign budgets get burned.
'Australian creator' often means overseas audience
A 25K-follower Sydney-based creator might have 60% of her audience in the US, UK or SE Asia. Free databases show creator location; they don't show where the audience actually lives.
FX and platform spread blow out the budget
Foreign creators bill in USD or via overseas marketplaces. By the time the FX, the markup and the platform fee land, the AU brand pays 30–40% more than the headline rate suggests.
AANA disclosure is the brand's risk, not the creator's
The ACCC enforces against undisclosed sponsored content. Foreign creators rarely have AU disclosure language built into their workflow, and the brand carries the regulatory risk if it goes missing.
THE MEGA DONKEY WAY
An AU-native marketplace, end to end.
Mega Donkey verifies Australian creators on entry, surfaces audience location on every application, and handles disclosure and escrow under Australian rules — not foreign T&Cs.
1
Brief AU-targeted
Set the campaign to Australian audience and let the brief builder handle AANA-aligned disclosure language automatically.
2
Filter by audience location
Narrow applications by audience state and major city — NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT — to match where your customers actually buy.
3
Verify before approving
Each applicant ships with audience location, engagement rate and content samples. Where a creator is ABN-tagged, their profile shows it for clean invoicing.
4
Pay AUD via escrow
Stripe AU escrow holds funds in AUD until you approve published content. Disputes resolve under Australian consumer law, not a foreign jurisdiction.
WHY AU-NATIVE
Why an Australian platform changes the campaign maths.
State-level audience reach
A Melbourne-skewed audience converts very differently from a Brisbane-skewed one for retail brands. AU-state filtering surfaces the difference before you spend, not after.
AANA disclosure handled by default
The brief builder applies the AANA Influencer Code's disclosure expectations automatically — so the brand stops being the last line of defence on every post.
Disputes under Australian rules
Stripe AU escrow plus Mega Donkey's resolution flow means a disputed campaign settles under ACCC jurisdiction — not buried in a foreign platform's terms of service.
TRUST
Verified Australian creators, AUD pricing, AU rules.
FREE CREATOR SEARCH
Search verified Australian creators free — no card required.
The only AU-native marketplace where you can browse Australian creators without a subscription. The Starter plan is free, and the founding cohort gets full access through June 2026.
What's on the free plan
What needs a paid plan (or founding-cohort access)
Founding-cohort brands have full access free through June 2026 — every feature unlocked, no upgrade needed during the trial period.
Browse Australian creators free
No credit card. No commitment. Sign-up takes 60 seconds.
QUESTIONS
How AU brands actually find Australian influencers in 2026.
Post a brief on Mega Donkey targeting Australian audience location and let AI-verified Australian creators apply. Each application includes follower band, audience location (state and city), engagement rate and recent content samples, so you shortlist on real audience overlap — not on whether the creator's bio says Sydney.
Filter applications by audience state — NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT — and by major-city audience concentration. Mega Donkey shows where each creator's followers actually live, not just where the creator is based. A Sydney creator with a 70% Melbourne audience is more useful for a Melbourne campaign than a Melbourne creator with a 60% international audience.
Set the audience location in your brief to your target metro or state, then accept applications from creators whose audience matches. The applicants list ranks by audience overlap, so the creator with the most relevant local reach surfaces first — even if their own location is interstate.
It's the entire reason brands waste budget on the wrong creators. An "Australian creator" is someone who lives in Australia. An "Australian-audience creator" is someone whose followers are mostly in Australia — which is what actually drives sales locally. The two overlap, but not as much as bios suggest. Mega Donkey shows audience location on every application, so you brief on the second metric, not the first.
Many are, especially the ones running creator work as a side business or full-time. Where a creator is ABN-tagged, their profile shows it, and you can filter for ABN-only applications when you need clean GST treatment on the invoice side. For non-ABN creators, the platform handles the payment flow as a contractor arrangement under standard Australian rules.
The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) Influencer Code requires sponsored content to be clearly labelled — #ad, #sponsored, the platform's paid-partnership tag, or equivalent. The ACCC enforces against undisclosed sponsorships, and brands carry the risk, not just the creator. Mega Donkey bakes AANA-aligned disclosure language into every brief, so the obligation is met by default rather than being something you have to police creator by creator.
Australian micro-influencer rates typically run from $80–$400 per piece of content, broadly comparable to UK and Canadian rates and slightly above SE-Asian rates for equivalent follower bands. The relevant comparison isn't headline rate, though — it's effective cost per Australian view. Cheaper overseas creators with non-AU audiences usually cost more per local impression than a slightly pricier AU-audience creator.
Founding Cohort — Open Until June 2026
Find creators with audiences who actually live here.
Create a free account, post a brief targeting your AU audience, and watch verified Australian creators apply. Filter by state. Pay AUD via escrow. Settle disputes under Australian rules.
Verified Australian creators
AUD escrow on every transaction
Cancel any time
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