Filter reference
Every filter in the search engine, one by one: what it does, what values it takes and which network it exists on. If you're not sure yet how a search is run, start with Searching in Discover.
How to read this page
Discover's filters fall into two families that you can combine freely:
- Creator filters: they describe the influencer themselves (how many followers they have, where they live, what they talk about, how their posts perform).
- Audience filters: they describe their followers (where they live, how old they are, which gender is dominant, what share of them are real). They live in the
Audience (advanced)section.
The left-hand panel shows the essential filters first, and the rest below, grouped into Demographics, Performance, Content, Account and Audience (advanced). The View all filters button opens them all at once in a wide panel, split into Quick and Advanced filters, with the active-filter counter and the Search and Clear filters buttons.
Creator filters
Profile and demographics
Who the creator is: the size of their account, what they say about themselves, and where and in which language they post. This is where almost everyone starts narrowing down.
| Filter | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
Followers | Narrows down the size of the account. | Dual slider with fixed steps: 0, 1k, 5k, 10k, 25k, 50k, 100k, 250k, 500k, 1M, 5M, 10M and no upper limit. In AI Search you type the From and To values by hand. |
Bio or full name | Words that must appear in the profile's bio or name. | Free text. Several words are all required at the same time: see Behaviours worth knowing about. |
Gender | The creator's gender. | Any, Woman or Man. |
Age | The creator's age bracket. | Min. and Max. selectors with the cut-offs 18, 25, 35, 45 and 65. |
Location | The country, city or region where the creator lives. | Autocomplete with multiple selection; each suggestion says whether it's a country, a city or a region. |
Language | The language the creator posts in. | Autocomplete, one language per search. |
Performance
How their posts do: how much interaction they get, what view counts they reach and whether their community is growing. These separate the profiles that perform from the ones that are merely big.
| Filter | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
Engagement rate (min.) | The creator's minimum interaction relative to their followers. | Slider from 0% to 10% in half-point steps; it shows as X%+, or Any if you leave it alone. In AI Search it's a free percentage field. |
Engagements | Average absolute interactions per post. | From – To range, in number of interactions. |
Reels plays | Average plays on their reels. | From – To range. Instagram only. |
Views (avg) | Average plays per video. | From – To range. TikTok only. |
Shares | How often their videos get shared, on average. | From – To range. TikTok only. |
Saves | How often their videos get saved, on average. | From – To range. TikTok only. |
Followers growth | How much their community has grown over a period. | A window of 1 to 6 months, an operator (>, ≥, <, ≤) and a percentage from 0% to 500%. |
Likes growth | The same, applied to likes. | Same window, operator and percentage format. TikTok only. |
Content and topic
What they talk about and who they resemble: their topic, the tags and words they use, the brands they've worked with and the reference profiles you want to match them against.
| Filter | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
Interests | The creator's topic. | Multiple selection over a closed catalogue of around thirty categories (fashion, fitness, travel…). Instagram only. |
Hashtags / mentions | Tags or accounts they use in their posts. | Tags typed as #hashtag or @mention and confirmed with Enter. |
Keywords in captions | Words that appear in their post captions. | Free text. |
Brands worked with | Brands they've mentioned or worked with. | Autocomplete with multiple selection. Instagram only. |
Similar to (content) | Creators who post content similar to an account's or a tag's. | @user or #hashtag tags, with profile autocomplete. |
Similar to (audience) | Creators whose audience resembles that of a specific profile. | @user tags only. |
Account and activity
The state of the account: what kind of profile it is, whether it's still posting, whether it's verified, whether a contact is available and whether it has already done sponsored content.
| Filter | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
Account type | What class of Instagram account they have. | Multiple selection: Regular, Business and Creator. Instagram only. |
Last post (days) | Discards profiles that haven't posted in a while. | A number of days, with a minimum of 30. In AI Search it's offered as the Only active creators (≤30 days) toggle. |
Verified accounts only | Only profiles with the network's verification badge. | Checkbox. In AI Search it's called Verified only. |
With email available | Only profiles with a known contact email. | Checkbox. In AI Search it's called Email available. |
Has sponsored posts | Only creators who have already published sponsored content. | Checkbox. Instagram only. |
Audience filters
These filters don't look at the creator, but at who follows them. They're the most powerful way to get a campaign's audience right, and also the most restrictive: each one requires a percentage of the audience to meet the condition.
| Filter | What it does | Values |
|---|---|---|
Audience country | Where their community lives. | Autocomplete with multiple selection. Each country requires around 20% of the audience, as the field itself warns: Spain, France… (weight 20%). |
Audience gender | The dominant gender among their followers. | Any, Mostly women or Mostly men. “Mostly” means roughly 55%. |
Audience age | The dominant age brackets among their followers. | Multiple selection: 13-17, 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-64 and 65- (that's how the last one is written in the interface, and it means 65 and over). Each bracket weighs around 30%. |
Audience interests | Topics their followers care about. | The same closed catalogue of interests, with a weight of around 20%. Instagram only. |
Audience credibility (min.) | The minimum percentage of real followers. | A percentage from 0 to 100. In AI Search it shows up inverted, as Fake followers (max): the maximum share of fake followers you'll tolerate. Instagram only. |
Which filters exist on each network
Instagram and TikTok don't offer the same data, so they don't offer the same filters either. This table lists only the ones that differ; the rest (followers, bio, gender, age, location, language, engagement, engagements, followers growth, similar to, hashtags, keywords, last post, verified, email, and audience country, gender and age) exist on both.
| Filter | TikTok | |
|---|---|---|
Interests | Yes | No |
Audience interests | Yes | No |
Brands worked with | Yes | No |
Account type | Yes | No |
Has sponsored posts | Yes | No |
Reels plays | Yes | No |
Audience credibility (min.) | Yes | No |
Views (avg) | No | Yes |
Shares | No | Yes |
Saves | No | Yes |
Likes growth | No | Yes |
Behaviours worth knowing about
The bio filter requires every word
Bio or full name works with AND logic: if you type two words, the profile has to contain both. Order and capitalisation don't matter, but every word you add cuts the set down further. A two-word search returning nothing isn't a bug: start with a single word and add the second one only if you have results to spare.
Interests is a closed catalogue
It isn't a text field: it's a fixed list of around thirty broad categories. Very specific topics simply don't exist as an interest. For those you have three better options: Hashtags / mentions, Keywords in captions and Bio or full name.
Audience is filtered by dominance, not by presence
Asking for Spain under Audience country doesn't return creators with “some” Spanish followers: it returns those whose audience is around 20% Spanish. The same goes for gender (a “mostly” sits at about 55%) and for age brackets (close to 30% each). That's why combining several audience filters empties your results so fast.
You can't filter activity of less than 30 days
Last post (days) has a minimum of 30. If you're looking for creators who were active this week, no filter will do it: use the value 30 and discard by hand, or keep an eye on the No recent activity label on the cards.
The sliders move in steps
Followers doesn't take arbitrary figures: it moves along the steps of the scale (1k, 5k, 10k, 25k…). If you need an exact cut-off, use AI Search, where From and To are free fields.
Adjusting filters doesn't search
You can touch as many filters as you like without spending anything: the search only runs when you press Search. Once it has run, changing page or sorting does re-run it on its own with the same filters.
The autocompletes are closed dictionaries
Location, language and brands are always picked from the list the dropdown suggests, because they come from our data provider's dictionaries. Typing a value that doesn't show up in the suggestions filters nothing.
Next steps
- Go over how a search is run and read in Searching in Discover.
- When you land on a combination that works, keep it as a saved search.
- What each number means exactly is covered in Metrics and calculations.

