thesocialcat.comReviews of thesocialcat.com

I had high hopes for Social Cat, expecting to connect with creators who would produce quality content in exchange for gifted products. Unfortunately, my experience has been extremely disappointing. Some creators received the products and never created or shared any content, despite clear agreements. When I reached out for support, Social Cat took no responsibility and provided no effective solution. It seems far too easy for them to avoid accountability.

As a creator, this platform is full of insanely entitled brands who do not respect rates and ask for far more content than their product is worth. The brands who use this platform are for the majority super obscure and have under 1,000 followers, yet ask for a ridiculous amount of exposure for only a gifted product and no pay (for example, a few days ago a brand asked for a TikTok, a feed post, a reel, and several stories in exchange for A KEYCHAIN!?). The platform itself does nothing to set reasonable expectations and enables this behavior. The driving factor that pushed me to leave this platform, and this review, was a brand that I was negotiating a collab with and gave them my rates which they ignored and proposed something that was still unreasonable, so I simply didn't respond. The platform enabled them to leave me a bad review without even working with me, and customer service did nothing about it. There are so many better platforms out there (Intellifluence, Aspire.iq, Fohr, Cipio. AI, Creatorland, etc) that respect creators and brands alike and are far more worth the time and effort.

I am leaving a review as a Brand that used this platform. After sending the creator the product, the individual did not provide any content at all after months of conversation and promises. Social Cat was contacted and they informed me that they do not get involved, they wouldn't even contact the creator in my behalf. I read other reviews here from creators and it seems like they are not protected either. This amounts to a waste of time and money on this platform if either party doesn't deliver. Social Cat does not provide any protection or support at all.

My experience with TheSocialCat has been deeply disappointing. Influencer response rates are abysmally low — expect something like 0.01%, which is far below industry standards. Even with hundreds of invites, I couldn’t fill just three spots in a campaign. Worse than the platform’s performance was the attitude of their support team. When I asked for more search credits, I was told flat-out that my affiliate-based business model "doesn't work and never will." That’s quite a bold statement, especially considering the success of programs like Booking.com and Stay22 — and the thousands of bloggers who earn a living from affiliate marketing. Honestly, I’d recommend looking elsewhere. There are other platforms out there with better tools, better support, and actual results. This one was a waste of time and money.

One of the brands I had a collaboration with, and a signed contract, took my content, reposted it on their social media, and never paid me, then blocked me. I reached out to social cat cc, and they told me there is nothing they can do, so the only option I had is to reach out to an attorney. The platform kindly asked me if I would like to remove my profile from social cat when I told them that I will be reaching out to an attorney. Another issue, I was away on vacation and did not get notifications from social cat, where a brand apparently sent me the first message after matching with me. I never saw that message, and I never responded to it, after which the brand left me a one star review, calling other brands to not collaborate with me because I am “non-responsive and frustrating to deal with”. I did not even get a chance to do a collaboration with a brand, after reaching out to a customer service they told me that their review is fair and there’s nothing they will do. Don’t work with SocialCat.

Looting people money by showing fake updates about business

These people are prejudice and they pretend like you can get an account and they have all these reasons in your status in why they won’t add you as an influencer to their scam of gifting products and free labor. This is a crazy thing since anyone can be an influencer and they shouldn’t legally be allowed to discriminate on who gets to review products. Not to mention it’s not a job every-time you make money at for your work. These are unpaid jobs you have to take the time to create content for their company for a gift most of the time. This is a form of slave labor and if they are just gifting products that is more like a reimbursement not a pay check. Since they can’t guarantee you even get paid, they shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate in who uses their service as it’s not a work for hire it’s reviewing products. I actually am an influencer and have many followers and they denied me. They look at different things all discrimination of your profile and what your status on individual platforms are. I didn’t upload all my platforms only Instagram because I primarily use only Instagram for my posts about companies products. Oddly enough my product reviews are at 💯% approval and typically my content helps new companies sell out of their products. This company is basically the worst influencer company and highly unprofessional. I am connected with many other better companies and plenty of brands. I wouldn’t recommend this bull crap Social Cat, they are complete garbage. I am posting reviews about their discriminating process for generating influencers everywhere I can.

It’s a scam they just want your details and then you’ll be inundated with spam. They will take all your information then claim “they are unable to approve your application”