SideShift Academy

Hire, brief, and scale a UGC roster on SideShift.

Learn the craft of running a creator program, from choosing your first creators to knowing which content to back next.

For founders, growth leads, operators and agencies.

The operator course

UGC Campaign Management

Your instructor

Jonathan Key Founder, Ki Marketing

Lessons
82
Sections
06

From creator selection and creative testing to paid content and day-to-day operations.

What you’ll learn

The decisions behind your creator program.

  1. Know who to hire

    What to look for in a creator, how to set expectations and when to find a replacement.

  2. Brief with a clear direction

    Turn market research and content references into briefs that leave room for a creator’s own voice.

  3. Give your next test more angles

    Build hooks, write scripts and compare creative concepts with multi-briefing and A/B testing.

  4. Bring the right content into paid

    Identify Spark-worthy videos, request Spark codes and understand when whitelisting makes sense.

  5. Know what to keep backing

    Set up campaign analytics, review performance and decide which concepts to develop further.

  6. Keep your roster moving

    Coordinate communication, compensation, content reviews and timely payouts inside SideShift.

Inside the course

From your first hire to your next campaign.

Explore all 82 lessons, then sign up to watch in SideShift.

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Course syllabus6 sections
Learn where you work

Put the lesson to work in your next campaign.

The course lives inside SideShift, alongside the tools you’ll use to run your program. Your course progress stays in your account.

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  1. Create your SideShift account

    Sign up to access the course.

  2. Open Learn

    Find your course inside your SideShift account.

  3. Choose UGC Campaign Management

    Work through the sections or return to the lesson you need.

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