Your First Influence X Video — Open Competition

Show us the journey you would make. Pick a local place you love, go and spend time there the way you normally would, and film it honestly. Then use Influence X to write a personal invitation to that business, inviting them to start their own campaign with a local creator, and film that moment too. Finish by uploading your video here and showing the whole journey: applying, your chosen spot, the visit, the invitation, and the upload. The best entry wins $150, and two runners-up are named and promoted. Entering is free, and it does not guarantee you will be chosen or paid.

One journey video, 45 to 120 seconds, filmed vertically on your phone: applying on Influence X, the local spot you chose, the time you spend there, the invitation you write and send that business, and your upload.

Vertical 9:16. 45 to 120 seconds. Filmed on your phone. Must show: your application on Influence X, the local business you chose, the time you spend there, the invitation you wrote and sent through Influence X, and your upload. No follower minimum, no professional crew, no polished production needed — the idea and the honesty are what count.

No follower minimum and no engagement threshold. You do not need to have worked with a business before. Judge it on the idea and the filming, nothing else.

• Clarity of the ideaHow clearly the entry shows what the collaboration video would be.40%
• How the business appearsThe business shown in real use, not as a logo or a staged ad.30%
• Filming and editingLighting, framing, and pacing — judged on what a phone can do.20%
• HonestyA real business you actually know, and a story that is true.10%

• Entering is free and does not guarantee that you will be chosen, or that you will be paid.
• The reward goes only to the creator it is awarded to — normally one winner, plus any runners-up the campaign names.
• Inviting a local business does not mean that business has agreed to anything. A campaign with them exists only if they choose to start one.

Applying means accepting our Creator Content License (v1.0): a broad, perpetual licence to use anything you submit — in any medium, for any purpose, including marketing — without further approval from you. You keep ownership of your work and you can keep posting it yourself.

Covered by the Influence X Creator Content License accepted when you apply (v1.0): a broad, perpetual licence to use anything you submit, in any medium, for any purpose, including marketing. You keep ownership of your work.

The full terms are in the application form, where you read and accept them and confirm you have permission for everything in your content. You can ask us to stop using your video in new posts at any time.