How Drunk Elephant runs UGC: 33 creator accounts, sampled

Drunk Elephant UGC program in numbers

Every figure counts the 33 confirmed and likely accounts. View figures come from the 28 sampled TikTok videos only and are lower bounds; Instagram view counts are not public.

What the sample shows about Drunk Elephant's program

A sample can show who the creators are and how their posts are marked. It cannot show how often they post or how the whole program performs, so those numbers are left out rather than estimated.

• Established creators, not new accounts. The median creator has 14K followers and 9 of 33 with a known count have over 100,000. Drunk Elephant works with people who already have an audience.
• A program hashtag ties the creators together. 33 of 33 counted accounts used one of the program hashtags (#drunkelephantpartner on 20 posts, #drunkelephantskinsquad on 10 posts, #drunkelephantambassador on 3 posts).
• Creators on both platforms. We attributed 28 accounts on TikTok and 5 on Instagram. That split reflects how deep each search went, not the program's real platform mix.
• The program is live. 33 of the 33 sampled posts were published in the 90 days to 28 October 2026, the latest on 21 October 2026. The search included a last-month pass, so this shows the program is active, not how often creators post.
• Sampled TikTok videos drew a median of 497 views. The 28 sampled videos drew 2.8M views between them and 2 videos passed 100,000. That is a lower bound on the program's reach, not its total.

Drunk Elephant's per-video pay is not public. For typical rates by creator size, see our UGC rates benchmarks.

Who the creators are

Follower counts are each account's public count on 28 October 2026. 100% of accounts with a detected language post in English. Of the 28 accounts with a known location (mostly TikTok post locations), 54% posted from the United States.

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How Drunk Elephant creators mark their posts

Across the 33 sampled brand posts, the most common marker is program hashtag (100%). Of the posts that carry a program hashtag, 85% also carry #ad, #sponsored or a platform paid-partnership label. The search looked for these markers, so read the mix as which signals creators use, not as a disclosure rate.

Drunk Elephant's creators are easiest to find by the program hashtag: 33 of 33 counted accounts used one. The brand name alone never attributes an account, because brand names collide with common words, other products and personal names. US rules on this are summarised in FTC disclosure and paid partnership; program hashtags across 61 brands compares naming conventions.

Format and caption hooks in the sample

The most common length of the sampled TikTok videos is 30 to 60 seconds (39% of 28 videos with a known length), and 0 are slideshows. By caption, the leading hook types are routine, food or workout moment (21%) and benefit or result claim (12%), across 33 sampled posts. With a sample this size, read these as the shape of the program rather than precise shares.

Hook type is classified from the opening line of each caption. On-screen text and the spoken hook are not public data, so this is the caption hook only. For how hooks are scored in paid social, see hook rate, or draft your own with the UGC hook generator.

Where the data is thin

• This is a sample, not a census: 28 TikTok videos and 5 Instagram posts. Most accounts were read for one or two brand posts, so posting cadence, active accounts, hit rate and dedicated accounts are not reported on this page.
• View figures are lower bounds: public view counts on the sampled TikTok videos only. Instagram hides view counts from logged-out visitors, so Instagram posts carry no view figure. That is unknown, not zero views.
• Posts were found by searching for paid markers (#ad, paid-partnership labels and program hashtags), so the marker mix on this page shows which markers creators use, not how often the brand's creators disclose.
• Web search surfaces bigger, more-viewed accounts more readily than small ones, so this sample likely over-represents established creators compared with a full scan of the program.
• The oldest brand post in the sample is from August 2026. The program may be older; this is the earliest post we found, not a launch date.
• 17 more accounts mention Drunk Elephant without a program marker. They are listed as "possible" in the app and left out of every number here.
• Drunk Elephant's per-video pay is not public, and public view counts include any paid boosting.

Method

UGC Agent searched the public web for TikTok videos that carry Drunk Elephant's program hashtags or tag @drunkelephant with #ad, #sponsored or a paid-partnership label, read 28 TikTok video pages from counted accounts, and searched Instagram for posts that tag @drunkelephant with the same markers. A language model screened each post for a paid relationship with this brand and removed other companies with the same name. Every account was then scored on public evidence with the same confirmed, likely and possible rules used across the dataset, and only confirmed and likely accounts are counted.

The fully scanned brands in the dataset read up to 40 recent videos per account and report complete 30-day windows. Drunk Elephant was measured from a sample instead, which is why this page reports creator size and markers but no cadence, activity or total views. Read the full rules in the dataset method.

Cite this data: UGC Agent, "How Drunk Elephant runs UGC", UGC Brands database, measured 28 October 2026, https://ugcagent.app/ugc-brands/drunk-elephant/