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Creatable vs LTK

LTK is a shopping destination — an app, a website and a newsletter where 40M monthly shoppers follow creators, browse LTK Shops and, increasingly, check out without ever reaching your site. Creatable is the layer between social and your own store: build your creator program, then bring that content to life on your PDPs and creator storefronts, where the sale, the data and the customer stay yours.

Trusted by retail's most loved brands
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+51%
higher conversion when creator video is shoppable on your PDPs instead of on someone else's destination
3.0×
return on creator content published on your own site vs. clicks rented from a marketplace
Whose destination wins
Creatable LTK
A creator roster that is yours
Shoppable video & creator storefronts on your site
Attributed on-site sales
Where a shopping destination stops

One platform for the entire creator-to-cart loop

LTK gives creators a place to curate and 40M shoppers a place to browse — on their property, measured by their dashboard. Creatable gives you the creators, the content and the on-site experience, then shows you exactly which content moved revenue on your site.

Build a roster that is yours

Find, vet, brief and pay the right creators — plus your own employees, associates and ambassadors.

External network only
Make it shoppable on your site

Publish creator video as shoppable galleries, PDP carousels and creator storefronts on your domain.

Creatable only
Attribute to on-site sales

Tie every view, click and add-to-cart to revenue — creator by creator.

Creatable only
LTK
Their destination, their traffic
Creatable
Spans all three — social to your cart
Why teams choose Creatable

Five things a marketplace can't do

Creatable AI (CAI) books the best seller for every product

CAI scans millions of creator profiles and 12 years of shoppable-video sales data to predict conversion before you book — then writes the brief, payout and requirements automatically. LTK matches you to creators inside its own network of premium lifestyle influencers; Creatable searches the whole creator landscape and books the exact creators who convert your products — for you, not for a destination.

Creator promoting sneakersSerum
Creator promoting lip oilLipstick
Creator promoting serumFragrance
Creator promoting a tote bagWatch
Shoppable video on a product page

Content becomes shoppable on your own site

Deploy creator video as interactive galleries and PDP carousels with add-to-cart, broadcast-grade streaming and product indexing — right inside your store. LTK's video-first experience and LTK Shops run inside the LTK app; Creatable puts creator video and creator storefronts on your domain, your PDPs and your own app.

Creator-to-cart attribution, one platform

Reconcile every shoppable view against verified order data to see revenue per creator, per product, per placement — not estimated EMV. LTK 360 reports the funnel LTK can see — impressions, click-outs and the commissionable orders it referred; Creatable measures view, click, add-to-cart and order inside your own funnel, reconciled to your order data.

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Store associates and creators

Activate employees + creators at scale

Turn store associates, ambassadors and affiliates into sellers alongside influencers — with a Team API and performance reporting by region, store and tier. LTK's network is premium lifestyle creators, by application; Creatable also activates the people who already represent you — associates, ambassadors, employees, onboarded affiliates — on your property.

Creator storefronts that live on your site

Every creator, ambassador and store associate gets their own shoppable storefront hosted on your domain — their picks, their looks, their video, their followers' curated edit, all rendered in your commerce experience with your cart and your checkout. Shoppers browse a person, not a page, and never leave your site to do it.

On LTK those same curations become an LTK Shop: their URL, their app, their followers, their first-party data — and with in-app checkout, sometimes their transaction too. With Creatable the curation, the traffic it earns, the SEO, the session and the shopper data are yours — you own it, control it, and can act on it.

Associate-curated storefront on a retailer's own site
The structural difference

A destination for shoppers, or a layer for your store

LTK calls itself the inventor of Creator Commerce, and it is a real one: an app with tens of millions of monthly shoppers, creator LTK Shops, Daily Drops, Deals, a newsletter, Connected TV, even in-app checkout. All of it is a destination — the same category as Instagram Shopping or TikTok Shop. Creatable doesn't compete with those destinations; it partners with them, and turns the traffic they send into engagement and revenue on the property you own.

LTK · a retail destination

Built so they own the shopper

Not you. The follow, the session and the data sit with the marketplace.

Shoppers download the LTK app and follow creators there. The audience, the follow and the push notification belong to LTK, not to you.
You join as one of 8,000+ retailers, hand over your feed and pay commission on every referred sale — plus flat fees for the campaigns you want run.
Your “brand home” lives on their app and LTK Shops live on their URLs. The curations, the audience and the first-party data are LTK’s asset — you don’t own, control or get access to them.
In-app checkout makes the conflict explicit: the destination is built to keep the shopper, and a destination has to grow its own traffic, not yours.
Creatable · the layer in between

Built so you own the shopper

Every activation grows your property, your audience and your first-party data.

Discover and manage the creators who actually fit your products — your partners, not a network’s members.
One program across external creators, employees, ambassadors, store associates and true affiliates you onboard — each with their own storefront on your domain.
Collabs on social bring the traffic; shoppable video and creator storefronts hosted on your site close the sale.
No conflict of interest: every result we produce lands in your funnel, on your domain, against your orders.
Where each layer sits in the funnel
Social & marketplaces
Instagram, TikTok, LTK and the rest — discovery and traffic. Partners, not competitors.
Creatable
Creator program, shoppable video, creator storefronts and engagement — running on your property.
Your store
The order, the customer, the data, the repeat purchase. All retained by you.

Use LTK as one more source of traffic if it performs — many retailers do, and should. Just don't mistake it for the on-site experience every retailer has to own. Replacing Creatable with a shopping app hands your funnel's most valuable moment to a platform whose entire business is keeping it.

Side by side

Creatable vs LTK, feature by feature

Capability Creatable LTK
Where the shopping happens
Where the content lives CreatableYour PDPs, category pages, app and creator storefronts on your own domain LTKIn the LTK app, on LTK.com and in LTK Shops — their destination
Who owns the shopper CreatableYou: the session, the data, the customer, the repeat purchase LTKLTK owns the app install, the follow, the notifications and the browsing
Direction of traffic CreatableSocial and shopping apps feed your store LTK~Builds their app audience first, then click-outs — or in-app checkout
Creator program
Creator sourcing CreatablePredictive AI books the best-selling creator per product from millions of profiles LTK~Matched within LTK’s network of premium lifestyle creators
Employees, associates & ambassadors CreatableTeam API activates your own people as sellers alongside influencers LTKExternal creator network only
Briefs, rights & payouts CreatableManaged collabs with usage rights for your own site and channels LTK~Flat-fee campaigns, commissions and paid content licensing
On-site experience
Shoppable video CreatableInteractive galleries and PDP carousels with add-to-cart, broadcast-grade streaming LTKVideo-first, but only inside the LTK app
Creator storefronts on your domain CreatableEvery creator, ambassador and associate gets a shoppable storefront on your site — your cart, your SEO, your first-party data LTKLTK Shops live on LTK; the URL, audience, SEO and data are theirs
Catalog & merchandising control CreatableFull catalog sync, product indexing and custom attributes LTK~Your product feed placed inside their catalog of 450M+ products
Measurement & commercials
Attribution CreatableCreator-to-cart revenue reconciled against your verified orders LTK~LTK 360 reports click-outs and the orders LTK referred
Insight into what content works CreatableView, click, add-to-cart and revenue by creator, product and placement LTKPlatform-side reporting only — nothing about your own funnel
Commercial model CreatablePlatform partner — no commission on traffic you already own LTK~Commission on referred sales plus campaign and media fees

*Based on publicly available information as of June 2026. Features may change — see vendor's site for the latest.

Brands that made the switch

The shopping apps sent us clicks. They never made our own product pages better. Creatable put creator video on our PDPs — conversion there is up 51%.

Global Influencer Marketing Lead
Beauty group

We still run LTK. We just stopped expecting it to improve our own site. It sends traffic; Creatable makes what happens after the click actually convert — 3.0× on the content itself.

Director of Digital
Luxury fashion house

Our associates and ambassadors are never going to be accepted into someone else's creator network. Creatable gave us one program for influencers, employees and affiliates — each with a storefront on our own site.

SVP Marketing
Prestige retailer
Better together, not instead

Keep LTK. Own your funnel.

External destinations are traffic sources — use them. Just don't let one be your on-site experience. Creatable plugs into your store in under 30 minutes and brings your creator lists and affiliate partnerships with it — including creators you already work with on LTK.

Get started
1
Import creator lists & affiliate partners
2
Connect your store & product feed
3
Go live on your own PDPs

Common questions

Is LTK really a Creatable competitor?
Not in the way it looks. LTK is a shopping destination — an app, a site and a newsletter with tens of millions of monthly shoppers, closer to Instagram Shopping or TikTok Shop. Creatable is the layer between those destinations and your own store: it builds and manages your creator program, then makes that content shoppable and measurable on your site. Plenty of retailers run both.
Why is a marketplace structurally in conflict with my site?
Because a destination has to grow its own traffic, follows and conversions to survive. Every incentive points to keeping the shopper there. Your business needs the opposite: external destinations feeding your property, where you own the session, the customer data and the repeat purchase. Creatable has no destination of its own, so there is nothing pulling against you.
Can we keep LTK and add Creatable?
Yes, and many brands do. Treat LTK like any other traffic source — if it performs, use it. Creatable then makes sure that when the click lands, your PDPs, category pages and app are full of creator content that converts, and tells you which content actually moved revenue.
Who owns the creator relationship?
On LTK, creators are accepted members of LTK’s network with their own LTK Shop and followers, and they choose which brands to feature. With Creatable the creators are yours: you discover them with predictive AI, brief them, hold usage rights for your own channels and pay them directly — alongside your employees, ambassadors, store associates and onboarded affiliates.
Can our own ambassadors and store associates have storefronts?
Yes — and they live on your site, not a third party's. Every creator, ambassador, employee and store associate can be given a shoppable storefront on your domain, filled with their own picks and video, running on your catalog, cart and checkout. The curation earns traffic and SEO for you, and the shopper data stays first-party.
How does attribution differ from marketplace reporting?
LTK 360 reports what LTK can see: impressions, click-outs and the commissionable orders it referred. Creatable reconciles every shoppable view, click and add-to-cart against your verified order data — revenue per creator, per product, per placement, on your own site.

Book creators that sell, and make their content shoppable.
One platform.

Ask questions, be curious. We're confident you'll like what you see.

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