For brands

UGC from people who actually bought it.

Gifted videos are often shot an hour after the free sample arrives. Here the creator buys your product with their own money and uses it before filming. You pay only for the content you approve.

Hands filming coloured candle jars with a phone

How do I hire UGC creators in India?

You don’t hire them one at a time. You publish a campaign with your product, a brief and a reward. Creators from anywhere in India join, buy the product at full price with their own money, use it and create content about it. You approve the content that matches the brief and pay only for those. There is no follower minimum.

How it works

From brief to approved content

  1. 1

    You write the brief

    Say which platform and format you want, what has to be shown on camera and what must not be said. You approve content against this brief, so be specific.

  2. 2

    You set the reward and add money

    Paste your product link and set the cashback and the bonus. Creators see what the campaign pays before they join, so there is nothing to haggle over in DMs.

  3. 3

    A creator buys and uses the product

    They order from the store with their own money at your normal price and upload the receipt, which we check against your listing. Then they use the product for a while before they film it.

  4. 4

    You approve the content, and they get paid

    If the content matches the brief, approve it and the creator gets the cashback plus the bonus. If it doesn’t, ask for changes, up to 3 times, or turn it down with a reason and the money goes back to your wallet.

Why it matters that they paid

Videos from people who use the product

A woman smiling at two skincare bottles she just unboxed

They paid for it, so they’ve used it

Someone who spent their own money has opened the box and used the product before the camera comes out. You can see that in the video.

A smiling woman at home holding two delivered parcels

Every video has an order behind it

Each creator uploads their order receipt, and we check it against your listing before anyone is paid. The sale shows up in your own store data.

A young man editing a video timeline on a laptop

No free units that never become content

Gifted products often vanish without a piece of content. Here the creator has paid for the product and only gets the money back once you approve the content.

A creator filming herself with a phone on a gimbal

Small accounts can join

There is no follower minimum. If you want videos for your ads, someone with a few hundred followers who films well is as useful as a big name.

Using the videos

Agree how you’ll reuse a video before you brief

If you plan to run a clip as an ad, settle that with the creator in writing first.

Before you run a clip 4 checks
  • Decide the reuse before you brief

    If you want to use a clip in ads or on your product page, say so in the brief and agree it with the creator in writing first. It doesn’t come with the content by default.

  • The content lives on their channel

    The creator creates content for their own Instagram, YouTube or Facebook account, so their followers see it without you paying for reach.

  • The original content stays disclosed

    The creator’s own content is a paid collaboration and is labeled as one under ASCI guidelines. If you re-run footage as your own advertising, it is plainly an ad and carries your own advertising obligations.

  • A record of what you approved

    Each approved piece of content stays linked to its campaign, its brief and its order receipt, so months later you can still see where a clip came from.

How the failures break down
with no disclosure at all
65.8%
buried
19.7%
incorrectly labeled
14.5%

ASCI Half-Yearly Complaints Report 2025-26

What Hypedrive doesn’t do

FAQ

Questions, answered

How do I hire UGC creators in India?

Publish a campaign with a brief, a product link and a reward instead of hiring creators one by one. Creators from anywhere in India join themselves. They buy your product at full price, create content for their own channel and upload the order receipt. You approve what meets the brief, and you pay only for what you approve.

What makes this different from ordinary UGC?

The creator is a paying shopper. They order from your store with their own money and use the product before filming, so the video comes from someone who has actually used it. We check their order receipt against your listing.

Do I need a minimum follower count from creators?

No. There is no follower minimum. You are paying for the video and a checked purchase, so audience size matters less.

Can I use the content in my paid ads?

Only with the creator’s agreement. Hypedrive pays for approved content on the creator’s own channel. If you want to run a clip as an ad, say so in the brief and agree the terms with the creator in writing before you use it.

What if the content isn’t good enough?

Then you don’t approve it and you don’t pay for it. Ask for changes, up to 3 times, or turn it down with a reason, and that creator’s cashback goes back to your wallet.

Does the creator have to disclose the collaboration?

Yes. A reimbursed purchase plus a bonus is a material connection, so ASCI guidelines require the creator to label their content as an advertisement or paid partnership, upfront and prominently. The trigger is the material connection rather than audience size, so it applies at any follower count. Check the disclosure before you approve.

Sources

Everything on this page traces to one of these. They are the primary documents, not summaries of them, so you can check any claim here yourself.

  1. Guidelines for Influencer Advertising in Digital Media · Advertising Standards Council of India· August 2023 What counts as a material connection, and where a disclosure label must sit.
  2. ASCI Half-Yearly Complaints Report 2025-26 · Advertising Standards Council of India· November 2025 How often disclosure is actually getting done, and how it fails when it fails.

Start with one product link.

Paste a product link, set the cashback, the bonus and the brief, then add money. You pay only for the content you approve.

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