Audience authenticity
Unlock full reportIt reads what the account publishes
Instagram shows an address only when the account has set one as a business contact. The tool surfaces that public address; it never guesses or scrapes a private one.
Enter an Instagram handle and see the contact email the account publishes on its own profile, with the follower count and engagement behind it. Get the full profile and contact details.
Emma Lopez
@emma.lopez
Fashion enthusiast | Traveler 🌍 | Sharing my daily style and adventures
Public email
4.3M
Followers
102K
Likes/post
8K
Comments/post
Unlock this feature
Unlock this feature
Most Instagram accounts do not publish an email. That is the honest starting point for any email finder. Across active Instagram accounts in Heepsy's database, about 5% of accounts under 10K followers publish a contact address on their profile, rising to roughly 28% above a million followers. This tool shows you that address when it exists and tells you plainly when it does not, rather than guessing at one. What it never does is invent an address from a name and a domain.
Type any public Instagram username and pick the account from the results.
If the account publishes one, you get the address, ready to copy — some creators list two.
The follower count, average likes and engagement rate sit next to the address, so you can qualify the account before you write.
Instagram shows an address only when the account has set one as a business contact. The tool surfaces that public address; it never guesses or scrapes a private one.
An empty result is normal rather than a failure. Plenty of creators route contact through a management agency, a link in bio, or direct messages instead.
Reaching the right creator matters more than reaching one quickly. Heepsy adds the audience read that tells you whether the outreach is worth sending.
The address this tool returns is the one the account publishes itself. Instagram business and creator profiles can set a public contact email, which then appears behind the Email or Contact button on the profile. That is a deliberate act by the account owner: it is there so that brands can write to them.
This matters because it decides what you get and what you do not:
So when this tool says a profile does not provide a public email, that is the real answer rather than a gap in our data. The creator has not published one, and the sections below cover what to do in that case.
If you only need to contact one or two people, you do not need a tool at all. In rough order of how often it works:
All of this is quick for one creator and unworkable for eighty. That is the point where a database that already holds the contact details is worth more than any amount of manual searching.
These are the rates we measure across active Instagram accounts in Heepsy's database — randomly sampled profiles that posted in the last 30 days. "Publishes a contact email" means the account has set a public address on its profile.
| Followers | Publishes a contact email |
|---|---|
| 1K – 10K | ~5% |
| 10K – 100K | ~8% |
| 100K – 500K | ~17% |
| 500K – 1M | ~24% |
| 1M+ | ~28% |
The pattern is consistent: the bigger the account, the more likely it is to treat itself as a business and publish a way to be reached. Nano and micro creators, who are often the better fit for a first campaign, are the least likely to have set one — which is exactly why an outreach plan that depends only on published emails runs out of candidates fast.
Of the addresses that are published, roughly two thirds are free webmail — over half are Gmail — and about a third sit on the creator's own domain or an agency's. A personal-looking Gmail address is not a sign that you have found the wrong contact; for most creators it is the business address.
Given the numbers above, this will be the outcome most of the time. It is not the end of the outreach:
What we would not do is buy a scraped list or guess at addresses from a pattern. Both bounce at a rate that damages your sending domain, and a bounced first email costs you far more than the creator was worth.
Having the address is the easy half. Creators with a published contact email get a lot of identical pitches, and the ones that get answered tend to share the same few properties:
It is also worth qualifying the account before you write rather than after they reply. The follower count, average likes and engagement rate on the card above are there for that: an account with a large following and almost no engagement is not worth the email, whatever its address.
Contacting someone at an address they published on their own profile for business enquiries is ordinary business-to-business outreach, and it is what that address is for. There are still rules worth knowing, and none of this is legal advice:
The practical version: write to a person about a specific piece of work, make it easy to say no, and stop if they ask you to.
This tool answers one handle at a time, which is the right shape for checking a creator someone sent you. A campaign is a different problem — you are starting from a brief rather than a list of handles, and you need contact details for everyone who fits it.
That is what Heepsy does. Search 20M+ creators by niche, audience location, follower range and engagement, then see contact details, audience authenticity and estimated cost per post for the accounts that match — and run the outreach and follow-ups from the same place, instead of pasting addresses into a spreadsheet.
This tool looks up one account at a time. Heepsy searches 20M+ creators on audience, location, and engagement, shows the contact details it holds for them, and runs the outreach from the same place.
Get instant insights without the commitment. Use our suite of free tools to check engagement rates, detect fake followers, and analyze audience demographics across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube in just a few clicks.
Enter their handle in the tool above. If the account has set a public contact email on its Instagram profile, you get the address and can copy it. Manually, the same address appears behind the Email or Contact button on the profile — but only in the Instagram mobile app, not on the desktop website. If there is no button, check the bio text, the link in bio, and the creator's YouTube About tab, which often carries a business email when Instagram does not.
Because the account has not published one. Only Instagram business and creator accounts can set a public contact email, and most do not: across active accounts in our database, around 5% of profiles under 10K followers publish one, rising to about 28% above a million followers. We show the address the creator published and nothing else — we do not guess an address from their name and a domain, because a guessed address is a bounce waiting to happen.
Yes. There is no signup, no credit card and no limit on how many handles you look up. A free Heepsy account adds the full profile behind each result — audience location and authenticity, estimated cost per post, and the rest of the creator's contact details — and Heepsy's search lets you find creators by niche and audience instead of one handle at a time.
No. Private accounts cannot set a public contact email, and nothing on a private profile is visible to us or to anyone who does not follow them. If a creator is private, a follow request and a DM are the only ways to reach them — which is usually a sign they are not looking for brand work.
Writing to someone at the address they published for business enquiries is normal B2B outreach, and that is what the address is there for. Under GDPR a business email that identifies a person is still personal data, so you need a lawful basis — for outreach that is usually legitimate interest — and you have to identify yourself and honour opt-outs. Do not add creators to a marketing list because they published an address. None of this is legal advice.
Not with a one-handle tool. For a campaign you want to start from a brief rather than a list of usernames: Heepsy lets you filter 20M+ creators by niche, audience location, follower count and engagement, then shows contact details alongside audience authenticity and estimated cost for everyone who matches, and runs the outreach from the same place. What we would not recommend is buying a scraped email list — the bounce rates damage your sending domain and most of the addresses were never contact addresses in the first place.
1.8M
