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Michael Collins · Singapore
Kelicia Ong · Singapore
Yi Hui Ng · Singapore
Alene Ren · Singapore
Kathlynn · Singapore
Michael Collins · Singapore
Kelicia Ong · Singapore
Yi Hui Ng · Singapore
Michael Collins · Singapore
Kelicia Ong · Singapore
Yi Hui Ng · Singapore
Michael Collins · Singapore
Michael Collins · Singapore
Michael Collins · SingaporeLifestyle influencers in New Zealand
New Zealand lifestyle content trades on ordinary weeks being shown honestly. Outdoors, weather, a compact creator community where people know who is recommending what, and a general scepticism toward anything that looks bought all shape the category, and audiences reward a creator who admits when something did not work. Home, work, weekends and small rituals carry more than a polished highlight reel.
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What works
Lifestyle content that performs in New Zealand
- 01
Home tour
A walk through the creator's actual flat, room by room, with the product placed where it genuinely lives.
It is the highest-retention format in the category because the audience came to look at the space, so the product gets watched rather than skipped.
Put this in the briefName the room and the moment, agree what stays out of frame, and pay separately for the access to the home.
- 02
Day in the life
A loosely edited run through one real day, with the product appearing at the point in the day it is used.
It answers the question a static ad cannot: when would I actually use this.
Put this in the briefGive one required beat and one line to say, then leave the rest of the day alone.
- 03
Renovation or move-in series
Two to five videos tracking a BTO, resale or rental fit-out from empty rooms to finished space.
Renovation audiences follow a project to the end, so a series compounds attention in a way a one-off post never does.
Put this in the briefBook the whole series up front with dates tied to the build, and accept that timelines slip when contractors do.
- 04
Weekly reset or routine
A repeatable segment: the Sunday clean, the grocery restock, the evening wind-down.
Repeatable formats build habit, and a product embedded in a habit gets mentioned again without being paid for again.
Put this in the briefAsk to sponsor an existing recurring segment rather than inventing a new one.
- 05
Unscripted misadventure
Something that goes wrong on camera and is kept in: the wrong bus, the failed recipe, the flat-pack that will not close.
It is the most shareable lifestyle format because it reads as a person rather than an advert.
Put this in the briefState the one thing that must stay accurate, then give written permission for everything else to go sideways.
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Small-space problem solve
A short fix for a constraint specific to APAC flats: storage in a 3-room HDB, drying laundry indoors, cooking in a galley kitchen.
It is search-friendly, saves well, and gives the product a job rather than a placement.
Put this in the briefSend the constraint, not the script, and let the creator pick the fix from their own flat.
Rates
Lifestyle rates move on access more than on reach. Filming inside a creator's own home is a bigger ask than filming a product on a desk, and a home tour or a renovation series is priced accordingly, because the creator is licensing their private space alongside the video. Most creators price a single lifestyle video between S$250 and S$1,200, up to S$10,000 for a top creator or KOL, with paid-ad usage adding roughly 30% over organic-only for a 30-day run.
Who works with them
Usually home and furniture brands, interior design and renovation firms, appliance and homeware retailers, banks and insurers, telcos, property developers, subscription services, wellness and self-care brands, travel and hospitality, supermarkets and grocery delivery.
Working with lifestyle creators
What lifestyle content actually is
Lifestyle is not a subject, it is a permission. The audience has agreed to watch someone's ordinary week. That agreement is fragile, and the fastest way to break it is a scripted product moment dropped into the middle of a real day.
The proof point sits among our featured Singapore creators. Yi Hui Ng (@__yihui) is a deadpan travel and lifestyle creator: 31.7K followers and a top reel at 1.7M views, about 54 times his follower count. That content is not polished: it is hitchhiking across Japan and backpacking on close to zero budget, with the mistakes left in. Nothing about it would survive a brand approvals process that asks for a shot list, and that is exactly why it travels.
Where the money is in this niche in Singapore
Home is the commercial core of APAC lifestyle content. Every renovation is a large, dated, once-a-decade purchase decision, and people research it on Instagram and TikTok before they ever speak to a designer. Qanvast puts a 3-room resale HDB renovation at roughly S$51,000 to S$61,800 in 2025, which is why furniture, appliance, lighting and contractor brands are a natural fit for a creator whose audience is mid-renovation.
That gives lifestyle creators a clear commercial ladder. Renovation and home content books at the top. Everyday routine content books steadily. Aesthetic-only content with no purchase moment attached is the hardest to sell, however good it looks.
Briefing a lifestyle creator properly
Three rules cover most of it.
Brief the moment, not the script. Say the product should appear during the morning routine and name the one claim that must stay accurate. Do not write dialogue: a lifestyle audience can hear a brand sentence from three seconds away.
Buy repetition instead of reach. One appearance in someone's week is a placement. Three appearances across a month is a habit, and habits are what actually shift consideration. Two or three smaller bookings usually beat one expensive one.
Respect the home as an asset. If you want the flat in shot, price it, scope it and agree which rooms are off limits before the shoot.
For creators weighing up going pro
Lifestyle is the easiest niche to start and the hardest to charge properly in, because the work looks like something you were doing anyway. Two things change that. Publish a rate card that separates organic posting from paid-ad licensing, so the usage conversation happens before you film. And pick an anchor: home, travel, parenting, wellness. Brands book a specific audience, and general lifestyle gives them nothing to book.
Working with creators across the region
The vocabulary shifts by market. Ask for a UGC creator in Singapore and Australia, a KOL in Hong Kong and a KOC in Thailand. The home content shifts too. Singapore runs on HDB, BTO and resale timelines, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta skew towards landed and larger apartments with more DIY, Hong Kong content is dominated by extreme small-space solutions, and Australia sits closer to Western home-renovation formats.
Creators set their own rates, and you agree the brief, contract and fee with them directly, with no margin in between. The Creator List isn't somewhere to hire creators. It's the workspace creators use to manage deals they've already agreed, and if a creator you work with uses it, you review drafts, leave notes and approve the final cut there for free.
FAQ
Lifestyle influencers in New Zealand: common questions
Content filmed in the creator's actual routine rather than a staged set. Morning and weekend habits, home and workspace setups, budget and time decisions, and the outdoors as a normal part of the week all land because viewers recognise them. Give the creator one product with a clear role in that routine, permission to show the constraint, and the space to say where it did not fit.
Six to eight weeks for anything needing a specific season or event, and longer around December to January when travel and holidays take over. Lifestyle content has a long shelf life, so plan for a quarter rather than a launch week and track saves and shares alongside views. Keep the brief to one theme per campaign, because this audience notices when a creator is running several unrelated integrations at once.
Between S$250 and S$1,200 per video for most creators, with top creators reaching around S$10,000 and paid usage adding about 30% over organic-only for a 30-day run. Filming inside a creator's home or personal space is normally priced above a desk or product shoot, since it licenses their private setting alongside the video. Confirm the usage term, whether re-takes are included and whether exclusivity applies before booking.
The pool is compact and the audiences overlap, so a recommendation that reads as bought gets noticed by the same people following three other creators you booked. That cuts both ways: one honest endorsement carries further here than a reach number suggests, and one scripted moment costs more than it would elsewhere. Brief one product with a real role, avoid stacking competing integrations in the same fortnight, and expect candid comments.
State the NZD price and where the product is sold, because this audience checks both before it trusts the rest. Overseas pricing or a link that ships from abroad changes the decision, and viewers will ask in the comments whether the creator actually uses it. Give the creator the current price, the stockists or shipping terms, and permission to say when something is expensive, because a candid value read is what makes the rest believable.
We are early, so the honest answer is not many yet. Everyone shown here opted in to be featured, so the names you see are people who chose to show their work rather than a ranking of the best-known accounts in New Zealand.
No. These pages cover Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Bahru, Jakarta and Bangkok, and you can see featured creators in each market from the same place. The Creator List isn't somewhere to hire creators: it's the workspace creators use to manage deals they've already agreed, so you contact and agree work with a creator directly.
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