Talent Village

What Talent Village does

Talent Village is a London-headquartered influencer marketing agency and platform operating under the positioning of a "House of Talent Marketing." The company connects consumer brands with agency-signed professional talent — primarily Instagram influencers with 10K+ followers — for sponsored content collaborations, and extends its offering into event activations, paid media amplification, content production, and Web 3.0 services (Blockchain, VR, Metaverse, NFTs). Its customer base spans FMCG, fashion, beauty, skincare, technology, travel, gaming, and health and wellness brands, served through a dual go-to-market of a self-serve brand dashboard and a direct enterprise sales team.

The underlying technology is a proprietary platform that handles talent identification and matching against brand targeting requirements, fraud detection on follower-growth anomalies, and 1st-party-data campaign reporting with qualitative and quantitative audience metrics. Talent is sourced exclusively through software integrations and relationships with leading talent agencies, gating access to vetted, agency-signed talent. The sub-brand Model Village (operated by MV App Limited) extends the same marketplace mechanic specifically to fashion models. The platform has cumulatively published 13,254 Instagram posts across 409 campaigns with a 6.7% average engagement rate across a 7,000+ profile community.

The business model is transactional and take-rate based: Talent Village charges brand users a 20% agency fee on campaign budgets (billed pay-as-you-go upon approval of model posts) and deducts a 20% commission from model earnings, releasing funds to the model agency within seven working days. The company is privately held, has no disclosed external funding, no disclosed headcount, and no disclosed revenue. It operates from London, Paris, and New York.

Name

Talent Village

Legal name

Talent Village Ltd.

Website

https://talentvillage.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Talent Village is a London-based influencer marketing agency and platform that connects consumer brands with agency-signed professional talent for paid social content collaborations, monetizing via a 20% take rate on both brand budgets and model earnings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Influencer Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (541810), Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures (7114), Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures (711410)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

Influencer Strategy & Campaign Management (MPAAAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Creator Talent Management & Representation (MPAAAHAB), Talent Agency & Representation Services (HSACAHAK), Creator Management & Talent Representation (BPAFAHAB), Creator Events & Experiences (Trips, Houses, Retreats) (MPAAAHAN)

Keywords

• Influencer marketing
• Talent management
• Brand partnerships
• Social media campaigns
• Content production

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Brand Agency Fee: 20% agency fee charged to brand users on the campaign budget as a fee for using the website and platforms. Brands create campaigns, set budgets, and pay the platform when approving model posts.
2. Model Commission: 20% commission deducted from model user earnings. Models get paid by the brand for approved posts, with Talent Village taking a commission cut.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Talent Village operates an influencer marketing platform and agency that connects consumer brands with a vetted global community of 7,000+ agency-signed professional influencers (10K+ Instagram following) for paid social media collaborations. The offering combines a self-serve dashboard where brands create campaigns, set budgets and approve model posts, with multi-disciplinary agency services spanning brand partnerships, talent management, events, paid media, creative content production, Web 3.0 services and proprietary insight and measurement reporting.

Product overview

Talent Village operates as a 'House of Talent Marketing' agency combining creative, talent, and tech capabilities. The core offering is a proprietary technology platform (Insight + Measurement) that enables full content control and in-depth campaign reporting. This platform serves as the foundation for multiple service modules including Brand Partnerships (creative strategy), Talent Management (talent matching and agency integrations), Experience + Events (live activations), Paid Media + Press (campaign amplification), Creative Platform (content co-creation), Web 3.0 Services (blockchain/NFT), and Content Production. The company connects brands with agency-signed professional talent for influencer marketing campaigns across social platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Model Village: An influencer platform that connects brands and fashion models, operated by MV App Limited. Models select brands they want to recommend from campaigns on the app.

Products and services

• Brand Partnerships A creative strategy service in which Talent Village's team of brand experts combine creative thinking, talent storytelling and data insights to design compelling content strategies for brand clients seeking talent-led marketing campaigns.
• Talent Management A talent sourcing and matching service that connects brands with relevant, credible, agency-signed professional talent (10K+ Instagram following) across art, design, digital, fashion, film, gastronomy, gaming, music, sport and virtual disciplines, leveraging unique relationships and software integrations with leading talent agencies.
• Experience + Events A live activation service producing expertly curated digital and real-life brand activations on a global scale, offering brand opportunities at key tentpole events.
• Paid Media + Press A paid media amplification service that delivers optimized paid media campaigns and amplifies talent-led assets across all marketing channels.
• Creative Platform A content co-creation service in which Talent Village collaborates with talent to co-create original, culturally relevant content that sparks conversations on social platforms.
• Web 3.0 Services A specialized service providing expertise in Blockchain, virtual reality and the Metaverse to help brands develop decentralised systems and NFTs.
• Content Production A production service in which experienced production teams deliver a library of high quality content that resonates with engaged audiences across all touchpoints.
• Insight + Measurement A proprietary technology platform that tracks campaign performance and delivers actionable insights, providing full content control and in-depth campaign reporting with 1st-party data for comprehensive qualitative and quantitative metrics about exposed users at each distribution touchpoint.
• Model Village (MV App) An influencer platform operated by MV App Limited (trading as Model Village) that connects brands and fashion/agency-signed models; models select brands they want to recommend from campaigns surfaced through the app, with Talent Village deducting a 20% commission from model earnings and releasing funds to the model agency within 7 working days.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average engagement rate of 6.7% across all campaigns
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Leading Talent AgenciescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTalent Village maintains unique relationships and software integrations with leading talent agencies, providing access and control over the best professional talent. They work with an elite group of select agency partners for talent sourcing.
• Various Instagram Influencer Talent AgenciescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTalent Village exclusively works with agency-signed talent who must be signed with at least one partner agency and have 10K+ Instagram following. This ensures quality and authenticity of talent.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IZEA Worldwide: Public influencer marketing technology and services company operating a creator marketplace with campaign management software. Comparable marketplace and agency-service model.
• HireInfluence: Full-service influencer marketing agency offering campaign strategy, talent casting, and content production. Comparable service-module breadth to Talent Village's nine offerings.
• CreatorIQ: Enterprise influencer marketing platform offering talent discovery, campaign management, and analytics. Comparable to Talent Village as a tech-enabled agency model serving brand campaigns with vetted creator rosters.
• Aspire (formerly AspireIQ): End-to-end influencer marketing platform connecting brands with vetted creators for content campaigns. Direct competitor in the brand-creator matching and campaign management category.
• Open Influence: Influencer marketing platform and agency with proprietary technology for campaign management and creator analytics. Direct comparable in self-serve influencer platform category.
• Upfluence: Influencer marketing software with talent search, recruitment, and campaign analytics for brands and agencies. Comparable self-serve + sales hybrid motion to Talent Village.
• Influencer Marketing Hub: Influencer agency and platform providing campaign strategy, talent sourcing, and execution services for brands globally. Closely matched agency-services-plus-tech positioning.
• Grin: Creator management platform purpose-built for direct-to-consumer brands, covering recruitment, gifting, and content workflows. Closely comparable on the talent-vetting and campaign-execution model.
• Whalar: Creator agency and talent management firm representing influencers, athletes, and artists, with brand partnership and campaign capabilities. Closely comparable on talent-representation and brand-matching model.

Broad incumbents

• Ogilvy (Influencer/Social): Global advertising network offering influencer and creator marketing as part of broader integrated campaigns. Comparable on brand-campaign execution but operates at much larger scale across all marketing channels.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCltx8a6H8Aogw_gCWABOWSw
• Facebookfacebook.com/talentvillageco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/talentvillage
• Instagraminstagram.com/talent.village

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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