Compared on public facts

Club (formerly Brandbassador) vs Collabstr

Updated Nov 7, 2026

HourlyUGC is our product. Every fact links to its source. Methodology.

Club (formerly Brandbassador) and Collabstr both list commission on sales and product seeding. Collabstr lists pay per video, which Club (formerly Brandbassador) does not list publicly.

4 facts known on both sides. "Not listed publicly" means we did not find it on their public pages on Nov 7, 2026; it does not mean they lack it.

Why brands pick HourlyUGC over Club (formerly Brandbassador) and Collabstr

HourlyUGC lists 7 ways to pay creators on its public pages: hourly sessions, pay per video, commission on sales, flat amount per order, share of ad spend, pay per 1,000 views and product seeding. A brand can combine them in one campaign. 1 2 3
Club (formerly Brandbassador) lists commission on sales and product seeding publicly. HourlyUGC also lists hourly sessions, pay per video, flat amount per order, share of ad spend and pay per 1,000 views, which Club (formerly Brandbassador) does not list publicly (checked Nov 7, 2026; not listing is not the same as not offering). 1
Collabstr lists pay per video, commission on sales and product seeding publicly. HourlyUGC also lists hourly sessions, flat amount per order, share of ad spend and pay per 1,000 views, which Collabstr does not list publicly (checked Nov 7, 2026; not listing is not the same as not offering). 1 2
Meta Partnership Ads with the creators' videos, launched from inside HourlyUGC: the ad goes out from the creator's handle with the brand's budget. Club (formerly Brandbassador) and Collabstr do not list this publicly. 1 2
Who counts the sale: Counted either by the ad platform (Meta) or by HourlyUGC: a connected Shopify store or the Hourly Pixel, last touch within 7 days, with creator links and codes. 1 2 3

Start a campaign on HourlyUGCFacts checked Nov 7, 2026. HourlyUGC is held to the same sourcing rule as every other platform here.

Which pay models each one lists

Side by side

Pay model	Club (formerly Brandbassador)	Collabstr
Hourly sessions	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Pay per video	Not listed publicly	Brands buy a creator's preset package or make a custom offer at the creator's price; a 10 % fee is added at checkout; the payment is held in escrow until the brand approves the content. 1 2
Commission on sales	Commission rates and rewards are set per ambassador group, and commission payments are automated. 1 2	Affiliate income may be offered to creators as an incentive on top of a required minimum flat fee of $50 per collaboration; the commission itself is agreed in the brief, not tracked by Collabstr. 1
Flat amount per order	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Share of ad spend	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Pay per 1,000 views	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Retainers	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Bonuses	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Product seeding	Automatic product seeding to creators; ambassadors can also be rewarded with gift cards and product. 1 2	Free product may be offered to creators, but a minimum flat fee of $50 is still required to collaborate through a campaign. 1
Ads launched from the platform	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Money and tracking	Club (formerly Brandbassador)	Collabstr
How sales are attributed	Affiliate discount codes and tracking links per ambassador (the Affiliate module lists a discount code engine and tracking links). 1 2	Not listed publicly
Platform fee	Not listed publicly	Brands: a 10 % fee added at checkout on every order, reducible on a monthly plan. Creators: a 15 % commission on all order payouts. 1 2
Brand pricing	No prices published; plans are scaled to the number of active ambassadors and missions, and a demo is booked for a quote. 1	Searching and ordering is free with the 10 % checkout fee. Two subscriptions, Pro and Premium, are needed to post campaigns and raise how many campaigns can run each month; their prices are on collabstr.com/pricing, which sat behind a Cloudflare check we could not pass on 2026-11-07. 1 2
Creator payout	Not listed publicly	Once the brand approves the content the payment is released into the creator's Collabstr balance, minus the 15 % commission. Payouts by PayPal, gift cards or local bank transfer in 150+ currencies (ACH, RTP, Venmo, Cash App, Interac, SEPA, UPI, GCash and others). 1
Regions	Not listed publicly	Payout methods cover the Americas (US, Canada, Mexico), Australia, the UK and the Eurozone, Ukraine, Kenya, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, with PayPal in most countries. 1
Scale they publish	They say: They say 100+ ready-made ambassador missions and name Samsung, Celsius, Daniel Wellington and Fabletics as brands that use it. 1	They say: Their influencer directory page is titled 'Top 76,574 Influencers' in search listings (2026-11-07); their help center says brands can search thousands of influencers. 1

What the facts say

Where they overlap

Commission on sales
Product seeding

Club (formerly Brandbassador) lists, Collabstr does not

Nothing in the models we track.

Checked Nov 7, 2026

Collabstr lists, Club (formerly Brandbassador) does not

Pay per video: Brands buy a creator's preset package or make a custom offer at the creator's price; a 10 % fee is added at checkout; the payment is held in escrow until the brand approves the content.

Checked Nov 7, 2026

Which brand each one fits

From the models each lists, nothing else.

Club (formerly Brandbassador)

brands that can attribute sales and want to pay on orders
brands that ship product to creators

Collabstr

brands that can attribute sales and want to pay on orders
brands that budget per approved video
brands that ship product to creators

Questions people ask

What do Club (formerly Brandbassador) and Collabstr have in common?

Both list commission on sales and product seeding on their public pages (checked Nov 7, 2026).

What does Club (formerly Brandbassador) list that Collabstr does not?

Nothing in the pay models we track. Every model Club (formerly Brandbassador) lists, Collabstr lists too.

What does Collabstr list that Club (formerly Brandbassador) does not?

Collabstr lists pay per video. Club (formerly Brandbassador) does not list it publicly.

Where do these facts come from?

From each platform's public pages, linked next to every fact with the date we checked. A fact without a public source is not shown.

Sources

Each fact above links to one of these. Checked Nov 7, 2026.

Collabstr: Collabstr help center: How to Place an Order With an Influencer (updated 15 Oct 2025) · help.collabstr.com, checked Oct 15, 2025 · “Collabstr holds your payment until you approve the work.”
Collabstr: Collabstr help center: What is Collabstr? (updated 20 Aug 2025) · help.collabstr.com, checked Aug 20, 2025 · “connects brands with influencers for paid collaborations”
Club (formerly Brandbassador): club.co, home, read 2026-11-07 · club.co, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “Set personalised rewards and commission rates for each group.”
Collabstr: Collabstr help center: Post a Campaign (updated 22 Sep 2025) · help.collabstr.com, checked Sep 22, 2025 · “you are welcome to offer affiliate income to influencers as an incentive”
Club (formerly Brandbassador): club.co: Pricing, read 2026-11-07 · club.co, checked Nov 7, 2026
Collabstr: Collabstr help center: Supported Payout Methods (updated 9 Oct 2025) · help.collabstr.com, checked Oct 9, 2025 · “Collabstr charges a 15% commission on all order payouts.”
Collabstr: Collabstr help center: Choosing and Updating Your Subscription (updated 22 Sep 2026) · help.collabstr.com, checked Sep 22, 2026 · “Collabstr offers two subscription plans, Pro and Premium.”
Collabstr: collabstr.com: Find and hire influencers (page title as listed by search engines on 2026-11-07; the page itself sat behind a Cloudflare check) · collabstr.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “Top 76,574 Influencers”