Drop one athlete and get a similar-graph roster of runners, lifters, cyclists, combat athletes, coaches, and multi-sport creators whose audience actually trains. Sport / level / federation / country filters, auto-generated offers per athlete, and autopilot outreach in 9 languages. One tool replaces the sports agency retainer and the 20-person athlete-relations team — your whole influencer department in Orbitvibe.
Tell us your category, price ladder, and markets. We return a matched creator + athlete shortlist with sport-specific scoring, federation-compliance flags, native-language outreach drafts, and the gifting + paid + athlete contract templates we use in sports.
So we know who the plan is for.
Matched creators · outreach templates · collab contract · 3 business days · no card
Generic platforms treat sports as a hashtag. Orbitvibe treats it as a similar-graph search problem — one seed athlete becomes a scored roster, offers auto-draft per creator, outreach runs on autopilot, and a 20-person athlete-relations team becomes 2.
Drop one athlete, coach, or performance creator your buyer already follows. Our audience-intent graph returns similars — then similars-of-similars — across runners, lifters, cyclists, combat athletes, multi-sport enthusiasts, and studio coaches. You end up with a roster of endorsement-fit creators no hashtag search will ever surface.
Filter the graph by sport type (run / lift / ride / combat / team), competitive level (amateur / semi-pro / federation-eligible), country, language, category, and relational graph. Isolate German endurance runners under 35 with a coaching following — or US college athletes inside NIL rules — in a single view.
The system drafts a personalized offer per creator — referencing their sport, their PRs, the gear they already review, and the training frequency we see in their feed. No template copy-paste, no 'Hi [name]' outreach. Each offer reads like it was written by someone who actually watches their workouts.
Approve the shortlist, press go. First-touch, follow-up, reminder, close-out — the full cadence runs itself in native language, per creator, with athlete-specific exclusivity and activation-window logic baked in. You wake up to replies and signed field-test contracts, not a half-built CRM.
The work that used to take a sports brand a 20-person athlete-relations and influencer team — sourcing runners, vetting federation eligibility, chasing gym-owner partners, writing offers, tracking field-test deliverables — is done inside Orbitvibe by 2 people. Headcount collapses, multi-sport repeat-purchase programs still scale.
Replace the sports-agency retainer, the athlete-relations headcount, the separate outreach CRM, and the contract back-and-forth with one integrated tool. Sourcing, offers, contracts, outreach, and attribution from first-workout post through multi-sport rebuy — all in Orbitvibe. One platform is the influencer department.
Sports collabs don't replace your Meta, YouTube, or Google Shopping ads — they feed them. Paid traffic gets field-tested UGC, trust-driven shoppers close bigger orders, and multi-sport rebuy climbs without touching discount.
Sports gear is a trust-plus-fit purchase — viewers need to see a runner they trust log hundreds of kilometres in the shoe before they drop $180. Structured field-test content pre-sells, so blended CAC drops across paid and durability UGC replaces studio workout shoots.
Workout-vlog and kit-breakdown content shows full outfits and equipment stacks — so single-piece buyers convert into full-kit orders. AOV climbs without discounting because the creator's training-kit breakdown modeled the upsell in context.
A runner who bought your shoes is pre-qualified for your lifting apparel and your recovery tools. Cross-sport upsell compounds — same audience, new goal, lower CAC on category #2 and #3. Roughly 2.8× the repeat of cold-acquired buyers.
Every collab drops an indexed review, a YouTube long-form durability test, a Strava segment log, or a training-plan post that feeds search for 'best stability running shoes' or 'home gym power rack review'. AI answer engines start citing you — coverage compounds for 15+ months.
Drop your category, price ladder, and markets. Orbitvibe scans Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and training-platform-adjacent communities for runners, lifters, cyclists, coaches, PTs, and gym owners — scored for audience training volume, gear-rotation signal, and buy-through rate on comparable brands. Not a generic #fitness tag filter.
Native-language outreach goes out. The creator receives gear plus a structured 2-week training log with specific deliverables (first-run impressions, mid-window durability check, full-verdict after 200km / 12 sessions). Contracts cover UGC for Meta/YouTube, federation eligibility, NIL clauses (US college), Strava / Whoop data-share opt-ins, and FTC performance-claim compliance — all in-app.
Initial field-test, 400km / 12-session verdict, seasonal transition content (summer → winter kit), race-day or PR-day post, 'one year in rotation' revisit, cross-sport spinoff ('this runner tries lifting in the kit'). Each phase drops new assets for Meta ads, YouTube, Shopify PDPs, email, and organic — with attribution on every piece.
Whether you're scaling running shoes into the Nordic endurance scene, lifting gear into Gulf gym culture, or football kit into Brazil / LATAM — Orbitvibe sorts creators and athletes by audience-sport spread and training-signal, not just where the creator lives.
Tell us your category and markets. We'll match creators and athletes, draft the outreach, and send you the gifting + paid + athlete contracts we use in sports.
So we know who the plan is for.
Matched creators · outreach templates · collab contract · 3 business days · no card
The questions sports founders and growth leads actually ask about running influencer at scale — athlete contracts, federation rules, FTC substantiation, field-test workflow, and multi-sport attribution.
We score on training-signal, not aesthetic-signal. Audience workout-log frequency (via Strava / Garmin / Whoop-adjacent indicators), gear-rotation cadence, brand-tag purchase history of actual performance gear (not fast-fashion activewear), comment-section technique questions, and cross-platform training content consistency. The classifier is trained on hundreds of thousands of hand-labelled sport-specific posts. Generic tools index everyone with #fitness — we surface the 1% whose audience tracks, trains, and rebuys.
Pro athletes require NIL clauses (US college), federation-compliance checks (Olympic-eligible athletes can't take certain deals during competition windows), image-rights territorial scoping, and tournament / race exclusivity windows. Team and federation deals add program-wide branding rights. Coach and PT contracts layer class-integration language. Orbitvibe's athlete track is a separate contract set, pre-drafted with a sports-law template library, and flagged for review by the creator before signing.
US FTC requires documented substantiation for any performance claim ('run faster', 'recover quicker', 'lift heavier'). 'Lightweight' needs a comparative; 'long-lasting' needs a standard. EU and UK mirror this. Orbitvibe pre-loads approved claim language per SKU, blocks risky phrasing in the creator brief, and contractually obligates the creator to edit or remove non-compliant content. Meta's classifier kills sports creatives aggressively — substantiated language is the single biggest factor in whitelisted ad survival.
Depends on category and price. Running / training apparel sub-$100: gifting 30–60 coaches and micro-runners per month, paid 8–15 mid-creators for whitelisting, 2–3 athletes per region for launch moments. Premium gear ($150–$400 footwear, equipment): gifting 15–25, paid 12–20, athlete partnerships per key race/season. Home-gym ($500+): paid-only with structured 30-day field-test, plus 1–2 strength-athlete deals per year. Our qualifier tells us which mix fits before we plan.
Yes. We flag Olympic-eligible athletes and auto-surface the relevant federation's rules (Rule 40 window for Olympics, NCAA rules for US college, national-team restrictions). Contracts include activation-window clauses that respect blackout periods. Mistakes here can cost an athlete their eligibility — it's the first thing our legal review flags on any pro-athlete deal.
Optional, opt-in. Creators can grant Orbitvibe read-only data-share for the field-test window so the 'ran 400km in these shoes' claim is substantiated with actual data, surfaced in the content package, and preserved as evidence for FTC-compliance record-keeping. This is the single clearest competitive edge for premium running / cycling / endurance brands — no other influencer platform integrates performance data this way.
Gifting contract includes 12-month UGC clause for Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and your Shopify PDP. Paid contracts extend to 18–24 months with whitelisting and spark-ad rights. Athlete deals include separate image-rights clauses with territorial scoping. FTC-compliant disclosure copy is pre-loaded per post. Because sports creatives get flagged aggressively by Meta's classifier, substantiation-first content survives at much higher rates than generic fitness posts.
Yes. Every matched creator gets a native-language first draft referencing a specific post (which sport, which PR, which gear they reviewed), never a template. Nine languages cover every serious sports market — from Nordic endurance athletes to Gulf gym scene to LATAM football culture. You review and send from inside Orbitvibe.
First field-test content posted inside 14–21 days of your shortlist (longer than fashion because field-test windows are 2+ weeks by design). Attributed orders land within 48 hours of first-verdict post. By month two you'll have 10–20 creators actively posting. The real compounding curve — multi-sport upsell, seasonal rotation rebuy, AI-engine citations — kicks in month three and runs for 15+ months because sports review searches are evergreen.
Agency retainers in sports run $10–30k/month with opaque athlete economics and 5–8 month lead times on athlete deals. GRIN / Aspire / Upfluence index everyone — no sport-specific audience scoring, no training-platform integration, no federation-compliance layer, no athlete / team contract separation, no FTC substantiation workflow. Orbitvibe is built for sports brands end-to-end, typically 45–60% cheaper on fully-loaded CAC, and an order of magnitude faster to first field-test.
Still have a specific question about your brand? Request your plan — we answer in writing with the shortlist, typically inside 3 business days.
