"Should I buy a list of influencer emails?"

Popular advice: grab a 10,000-contact creator database and start blasting. Myth.

Scraped lists are mostly business managers, dead Gmail aliases, and contact forms that route to a void. You're not buying access, you're buying a deliverability problem that torches your domain reputation by week two. The creators worth reaching gatekeep their real inbox precisely because lists like that exist.

It's not a contact shortage you have, it's a targeting one. Hand-pick 50 real fits. They'll out-earn the 10,000 every time.