Creator directory

Instagram creators, measured

Curated lists of creators worth briefing, each one fetched and measured rather than ranked by follower count — plus a shareable media kit for every creator on them. Every engagement rate here is read against 5,924 accounts we measured ourselves, so a number arrives with the context that says whether it is any good.

Accounts indexed
1.26M
Measured with engagement
5,924
Median follower count
13K
Creators on curated lists
71
Media kits
104

What the index actually looks like

Measured Sep 6, 2026 across every Instagram account we hold with at least 1,000 followers.

1K–10K
541,386
10K–100K
716,685
100K–1M
1,177
1M+
210

99.9% of the index sits under 100,000 followers, and only 210 accounts are above a million. That is worth saying plainly rather than implying we hold everybody: this is a micro-influencer corpus, which is also the size range where engagement is highest and most variable.

How to read a creator's numbers

  • Compare inside a size band. Engagement falls with reach for structural reasons, so ranking creators of different sizes on it is close to ranking them by smallness.
  • Read the quartile, not the median. The spread inside one band is wider than the gap between bands.
  • Check the sample size. A rate computed over three posts is noise. Every figure on these pages says how many posts it averaged and when.
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Questions about this directory

How are these creator lists put together?
Every list is assembled from Cheerful's index of 1.26M Instagram accounts and then checked by a person before it publishes. Each listed creator's follower count, median likes and comments, engagement rate, reels share and days since last post are fetched live and dated on the page. A list does not publish below 10 members.
What counts as a good engagement rate for a creator on these lists?
It depends far more on the account than on its size. Across 5,924 accounts we measured, the median is 2.6% at 1K–10K and 0.94% at 100K–500K — but the middle half of the smallest band alone spans 1.12% to 5.6%, a wider gap than between any two adjacent bands. Each list shows where its creators sit against their own band.
Are these creators available to work with?
They are public Instagram accounts we measured, not a booked roster. Nobody on these pages has agreed to anything in advance. Cheerful handles the outreach, the negotiation and the logistics once you pick someone.
What is a media kit page here?
A shareable summary of one creator's public profile — followers, measured engagement with its method and date, recent posts, and where the account sits against comparable accounts. There are 104 of them. They are deliberately excluded from search results; they exist to be sent to a brand, not to compete for a search.
How do I get a page removed?
Use the removal link on any creator page, or email privacy@cheerful.ai with the handle. We take the page down within 48 hours, no account and no reason required.

About this directory

Cheerful builds these pages from public Instagram profiles. Follower counts, likes and comments are the figures Instagram showed publicly when we read them; engagement rates are our arithmetic over those, and the method is printed next to every number. Nothing here is supplied by Instagram, and nothing is estimated. Where we do not hold a figure, the page leaves it out rather than guessing. None of the creators listed has endorsed Cheerful.