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Octoly has been fun to use but their product selection is poor IMO. I have 10k+ followers with a 20% engagement rate and most of the brands available to me are drugstore brands. Even after ordering products & posting - the selection doesn’t update itself or improve. Quite disappointed. I waited a long time to join octoly and was really looking forward to reviewing some diptyque, herbivore, AMOREPACIFIC, etc (luxury brands) but most of what I’ve seen has been BIORE pore strips, sheet masks, etc. I’d say their brand selection is forgettable & cheap - not to mention very unphotogenic. As a photographer & content creator I rely on decent packaging to capture the attention of my audience. While packaging isn’t all that matters, it’s the first thing people see, so it should at least be “ok”. Some of the ugliest packaging I’ve ever seen has been on octoly and I’m disappointed. The concept of the app is brilliant, but I wish they were more careful when selecting brands and products. :/ I’m not using this service very much right now but I would have been on the app daily had they offered a better product selection. I hope they improve because I’d love to make octoly work for me!

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Not good company they do not work well with creators and won’t help at all when you can for sure help with the simple issue I personally had. Also when advising them because of this issue I couldn’t do anything on there platform anymore so I wanted to delete account of course because there is no point staying if I can’t review any longer. They ignored my request and talked around it a few times. They dont want to delete prob because this way it looks like they have more members then they actually do for brands tricking them to work with them making themselves look more appealing however there unaware that some members (I’m sure there plenty) cannot actually help there brand or spread the word for them because they cannot review any longer. This is a scummy business tactic and I do not like platforms that do such things. I also find it ridiculous we have to say it’s an ad it’s not it’s not sponsored and one thing everyone should know is if your not getting paid for your review it’s not sponsored your not obligated to review it and you don’t have to disclose this to the FTC like this platform claims. Another issue I have and I know many of my pairs also have is once the products shop they start the countdown for your review which to me is ridiculous and takes away from the actual days of testing to give an honest review and if there’s a problem good luck tying to fix it! The countdown should take place once received and you confirm you got it however it’s not.

I’ve been with Octoly for a couple of years. There have been a couple of times the app has glitched or things I’ve posted in my stories don’t show up as an option in the app. I have sent links and screenshots to Octoly but they still took points away from me and access to certain features. Seeing as I did my part, posted and shared (sometimes multiple times of the same product at octoly’s request, even though it would be weird to my viewers to be posting the exact same thing repeatedly) and my points were still taken away makes the platform hard to trust. I would think looking back at years of reviews I have done, they would be willing to look into it or have a conversation before simply taking points and access away.

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I joined Octoly in early 2017 before they were super big and it was incredible! Everything ran super smooth and I created content for them for over a year. As they gained popularity, they created more rules. Which, I completely understand! However, I contacted them when I was out of the country this Summer and unable to meet the deadlines for a few posts, and whoever the representative was who emailed me back was OUTRAGEOUSLY horrendous. So unprofessional and came off completely rude. Basically, even after a beneficial partnership for over a year, they were happy to let the door hit me on the way out over my travel plans. I could easily have been granted an extension and continued to generate sponsored posts and beautiful content, but they did not even act interested in salvaging my account. My posts have been reposted and shared by these brands that Octoly works with, and my account has literally doubled in the past year (over 40k) but unfortunately Octoly does not value their creators. Very unfortunate.

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I run an Instagram account that’s got over 100k followers, an average of a 9% engagement rate (which is very good for Instagram), and to be completely honest I thought I would be accepted. I don’t mean to sound like an entitled brat, the problem was not at all that I wasn’t accepted into the app. The problem was that once I wasn’t accepted, I got no help at all. I reached out multiple different ways to try and understand why I wasn’t accepted, and I never heard back. They do nothing to explain why you weren’t accepted therefore hindering you from improving your account and making any necessary changes. They say that care so much about helping influencers, but their support system is awful. They provide one way of contact (email) which I never got a response from. I just wish they would say specifically why you were denied so that you could take that and use it to make your page better and improve it.