FreeVues Referrals: How to Invite Other Creators

Know a creator who'd love more fans finding their Fanvue? Invite them. Listing is free for both of you, and every creator you bring in counts on our Top Referrers board. Here's how referrals work, and how to ask without feeling pushy.

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💜01. How do FreeVues referrals work?

Open Referrals in your FreeVues dashboard and you'll find your invite link. Share it with a creator. When they open it, our privacy policy says a small cookie remembers which creator invited them, so you're credited if they list themselves within 30 days.

Missed the link? A creator who joined another way can type you in once in their Settings, and that counts too.

Your friend then lists the normal way: one tap to connect with Fanvue, approved on Fanvue's own screen, no password. Their card builds itself from their Fanvue profile in under a minute.

💜02. What counts on the Top Referrers board?

Top Referrers is one of the five boards on our Leaderboards. It ranks creators named on other listings as the person who sent them here, and no editor picks who appears.

• The listing has to be live and visible.
• The creator's listing has to be connected to Fanvue.
• Referring yourself doesn't count.
• Fake sign-ups don't count either. Our terms say activity made up to game rankings or leaderboards is discounted, and can cost you your listing.

Like every board, Top Referrers can't be bought. Our Pricing page lists every Leaderboards position under "What money never buys".

To see where you stand, open Leaderboards in your FreeVues dashboard. The page headed "Where you rank" shows your real position on Top Referrers, next to Creators of the Day, Active Today and Most crushed of all time.

See the Top Referrers board →

💜03. What do I get for referring creators?

Three things, and your Referrals page shows all of them.

Gems. You earn 500 💎 Gems for every creator you refer, and they get 200 Gems of their own. A referral qualifies once the creator connects their Fanvue and their listing is live, and the Gems land after the listing has stayed live for 7 days. Gems book promoted spots on our Promote page, like a 24-hour turn in the Explore hero at the top of our browse page. Booking with Gems opens soon, and the Gems you earn now wait in your wallet.

A homepage spot. Your first qualifying referral puts you in Collaboration Cuties, the carousel on our homepage for creators who bring friends to FreeVues. Every one of them gets a spot there, every day, as long as your own listing is live.

A milestone ladder. Permanent badges unlock at 5, 25, 50, 75 and 100 qualifying referrals, starting with Spark and topping out at Founding Ambassador, and each rung adds a Gem bonus on top: 500 at Spark, then 2,500, 5,000, 7,500 and 10,000 at Founding Ambassador. Badges are never taken away once you've earned them.

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💜04. Is this the same as Fanvue's referral program?

No, they're two different things. FreeVues referrals bring creators to our free directory. Fanvue runs its own referral program for bringing creators to Fanvue itself, and it pays on its own terms. Our guide to Fanvue referrals and affiliates covers how that one works.

You can use both. A friend who's new to Fanvue can join Fanvue through your Fanvue referral link, then list on FreeVues through your FreeVues invite link.

Fanvue referrals, explained →

💜05. What should I tell a creator, and how do I ask?

Stick to what's true. It's more convincing anyway.

• It's free to list, forever. It isn't a trial.
• They get 200 Gems when their listing qualifies, just for joining through your link.
• They sign in through Fanvue and never give us a password.
• Their card fills itself in from Fanvue and refreshes every day.
• We never post or send messages on Fanvue for them.
• They can see the fans we send through a Fanvue tracking link named "FreeVues".
• They can remove their listing anytime at freevues.com/remove, and their data goes with it.
• If an agency manages them on Fanvue, the agency can list them too, once they've accepted its invite there.

Please don't promise numbers. Every creator's results are different, and we don't publish averages we can't back up.

As for how to ask, start with people you know: creators you already chat with, collab with or swap shoutouts with. A personal note beats a copy-and-paste blast every time.

Timing helps too. The easy moment is when a creator asks where your fans come from, or right after a collab, when you're already talking about growing.

Show, don't sell. Send your own FreeVues profile so they can see what a listing looks like. Then send the link and let them decide.

And keep it off strangers' DMs. Mass messages to people who never asked can get your social accounts in trouble, and it isn't how anyone wants to hear about something new.

💜06. The short version

Grab your invite link from Referrals, share it with creators you actually know, and tell them the plain facts. Every qualifying referral earns you 500 Gems, your first one puts you on our homepage, each one after that moves you up the ladder, and they get a free listing that works while they sleep.