Compared on public facts

Make Influence vs UpPromote

Updated Nov 7, 2026

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

Make Influence and UpPromote both list commission on sales, bonuses and product seeding. Make Influence also lists pay per video and flat amount per order, which UpPromote does not list publicly.

8 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 Make Influence and UpPromote

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
Make Influence lists pay per video, commission on sales, flat amount per order, bonuses and product seeding publicly. HourlyUGC also lists hourly sessions, share of ad spend and pay per 1,000 views, which Make Influence does not list publicly (checked Nov 7, 2026; not listing is not the same as not offering). Make Influence lists bonuses, which HourlyUGC does not list publicly. 1
UpPromote lists commission on sales, bonuses 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 UpPromote does not list publicly (checked Nov 7, 2026; not listing is not the same as not offering). UpPromote lists bonuses, which HourlyUGC does not list publicly. 1
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. Make Influence and UpPromote 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

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Which pay models each one lists

Side by side

Pay model	Make Influence	UpPromote
Hourly sessions	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Pay per video	A fixed fee for agreed content on an agreed date, or a base fee plus commission, often with product included. 1 2	Not listed publicly
Commission on sales	Commission on tracked results: a share of sales, or a fixed amount per sale or per click. The brand chooses the basis: sales, clicks or leads. 1 2	Commission on referred orders, with commission tiers; orders are recorded and commission is calculated automatically. 1
Flat amount per order	A fixed amount per sale is one of the commission options. 1	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	Top performers can get extra compensation as bonuses or invitations to private campaigns. 1	A performance bonus feature next to commission tiers and multi-level networks. 1
Product seeding	Product-only collaborations: the creator receives the product and no fee. 1	Product gifting and free product samples for partners. 1
Ads launched from the platform	Not listed publicly	Not listed publicly
Money and tracking	Make Influence	UpPromote
How sales are attributed	A tracking link per creator with a cookie of up to 30 days, an IP fallback kept up to three months for in-app browsers, and per-creator discount codes on Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento. Code sales show in the creator report, not the campaign report. 1 2	Links, coupons, connected customers and connected products, used together. No cookie window is given on the home page. 1
Platform fee	A service fee as a percentage of the commission paid to creators: 30 % (Entry), 25 % (Basic), 20 % (Growth), 15 % (Full Service Pro), charged only when results happen. The Danish page adds 10 % on fixed upfront payments and says the fee covers commission and UGC. 1 2 3	A performance fee on sales from approved referrals tracked in the app: 2 % (Growth), 1.5 % (Professional), 1 % (Enterprise); none on the Free plan. Charged monthly. 1
Brand pricing	A monthly subscription plus the service fee. English page: Entry 95 EUR a month (80 billed yearly), Basic 535 EUR (455), Growth 805 EUR (685), Full Service Pro from 1,205 EUR (1,025); optional onboarding 670 EUR. Danish page: 595, 3,400, 5,100 and 7,650 DKK a month. Their example: a 100 EUR sale at 10 % commission costs the brand 13 EUR on Entry. 1 2	Free $0; Growth $29.99 a month ($24.99 billed yearly); Professional $89.99 ($74.99); Enterprise $199.99 ($166.66). 14-day trial on every paid plan. Marketplace listing from Growth up. 1 2
Creator payout	Earned commission is paid to creators automatically by the platform; method and timing are not given on the pages read. 1	Payouts by PayPal or store credit, scheduled by date or cycle or sent on approval, with minimum thresholds the brand sets. PayPal auto-pay is listed under Professional; a Wise bank transfer integration is also listed. 1 2
Regions	Based in Aarhus, Denmark, with the site in English, Danish and Swedish. A full country list is not given. 1 2	Not listed publicly
Scale they publish	They say: They say 1,500+ companies, 3,000+ campaigns, 5,000+ approved influencers, 930,000+ sales tracked, 500M DKK+ revenue generated (incl. VAT) and 60M DKK+ paid out in commission. 1 2	They say: They say 250,000+ customers, 3,500+ Shopify Plus stores, $2.05B+ partner GMV tracked and $110M in commissions paid. 1

What the facts say

Where they overlap

Commission on sales
Bonuses
Product seeding

Make Influence lists, UpPromote does not

Pay per video: A fixed fee for agreed content on an agreed date, or a base fee plus commission, often with product included.
Flat amount per order: A fixed amount per sale is one of the commission options.

Checked Nov 7, 2026

UpPromote lists, Make Influence does not

Nothing in the models we track.

Checked Nov 7, 2026

Which brand each one fits

From the models each lists, nothing else.

Make Influence

brands that can attribute sales and want to pay on orders
brands that budget per approved video
brands that ship product to creators
brands running longer creator programs with retainers or bonuses

UpPromote

brands that can attribute sales and want to pay on orders
brands that ship product to creators
brands running longer creator programs with retainers or bonuses

Questions people ask

What do Make Influence and UpPromote have in common?

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

What does Make Influence list that UpPromote does not?

Make Influence lists pay per video and flat amount per order. UpPromote does not list them publicly; that is not the same as not offering them.

What does UpPromote list that Make Influence does not?

Nothing in the pay models we track.

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.

Make Influence: makeinfluence.com: How it works (brands), read 2026-11-07 · makeinfluence.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “An agreed amount for agreed deliverables, on an agreed date.”
Make Influence: makeinfluence.com: Pricing (English), read 2026-11-07 · makeinfluence.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “whether that is on sales, clicks or leads.”
UpPromote: uppromote.com, home, read 2026-11-07 · uppromote.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “New orders get recorded and commissions get calculated accordingly.”
Make Influence: makeinfluence.com: Priser (Danish pricing page), read 2026-11-07 · makeinfluence.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “10% service fee på upfront-betalinger”
UpPromote: uppromote.com: Pricing, read 2026-11-07 · uppromote.com, checked Nov 7, 2026 · “applies only to sales from approved referrals tracked in app.”
Make Influence: makeinfluence.com, home, read 2026-11-07 · makeinfluence.com, checked Nov 7, 2026