Why teams use it
Built for the way your team actually runs Image Search.
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Style as a first-class signal.
Brand fit is more than niche. Image search matches on aesthetic — color palette, composition, setting, lighting — so your shortlist looks like your brand.
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Beyond hashtags and keywords.
Hashtags lie. Captions are inconsistent. Images don't. Visual matching surfaces creators whose work fits even when their text doesn't.
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Faster brief-to-shortlist.
Instead of writing filter logic, drop in a moodboard. Your team gets to a creative-aligned shortlist in seconds, not days.
How it works
From input to outcome in 3 steps.
STEP 01
Upload a reference.
A moodboard image, a competitor post, your own hero shot — anything that captures the look you want.
STEP 02
Tune what matters.
Match on visual style, content category, setting, or all of the above. Layer on standard filters like region or audience size.
STEP 03
Review the shortlist.
See thumbnails of each creator's most-similar posts side by side, so you can confirm fit before reaching out.
Deep dive
Everything you'd expect, plus a few you wouldn't.
Questions
About Image Search.
What types of images work best?
Anything representative of the look you want: a hero product shot, a moodboard collage, a competitor's top-performing post, a still from a UGC video. Cruva extracts style and content signals from any of them.
Can I save a search and re-run it later?
Yes. Image searches save like any other Cruva search and update as new creators publish matching content.
Does this work for video content?
Cruva indexes thumbnails and key frames from creator videos, so video-style matching is built in. You can also drop in a video frame as your reference.