Digiday·2026-02-26

Urban Outfitters shifts its influencer strategy from reach to participation

Urban Outfitters is launching a creator program centered around the hyper-personalized engagement that comes with passionate micro-creators and their communities. The move marks a structural shift in the retail brand’s creator strategy, and sees it join a growing group of brands that are gamifying their creator programs — moving away from curated, one-off partnerships toward broad, recurring, poin

Urban Outfitters is launching a creator program centered around the hyper-personalized engagement that comes with passionate micro-creators and their communities. The move marks a structural shift in the retail brand’s creator strategy, and sees it join a growing group of brands that are gamifying their creator programs — moving away from curated, one-off partnerships toward broad, recurring, poin