Social media is not a vertical — it is the layer sitting underneath commerce, hospitality, retail, media and customer service. Here is what it still cannot do for the brands on it, and what an address does instead.
5.4B
People using social media
Roughly two thirds of humanity, and about 94% of everyone who is online at all.
Users worldwide
2016 · 2.3B2026 · 5.4B
DataReportal / We Are Social, Jan 2026 estimate
~7
Platforms per user, every month
6.8 on the latest count. One person, seven identities, and not one of them portable.
MAMaison Auroreone brand, every month
Accounts to keep up7
Portable identities0
DataReportal, Global Overview
200M+
People who identify as creators
The voices a brand's customers already follow — inside an economy estimated above $200B and projected to roughly double by 2027.
Creator economy
SDAKJDMR200M+ creators
Goldman Sachs / Grand View Research
$32B
Global influencer-marketing spend
What brands spend reaching customers through somebody else's following — roughly fivefold in six years.
Spend, 2019 → 2025
2019 · $6.5B2025 · $32B
Influencer Marketing Factory / Hub
Every figure is rounded and attributed to its publisher. They describe the market brands reach customers in, not brands.Best’s own numbers.
A handle is a tenancy
Four things a brand's handles cannot do for it, however many followers are behind them.
01
The brand cannot take its name with it
The same spa is @maisonaurore on one network, @maison.aurore on another, @maisonaurore_paris on a third, and nothing at all on the fourth because somebody else got there first.
Every follower relationship is a row in someone else's database. When a platform changes its algorithm, its rules or its owner, that relationship does not travel.
Reach, after the ranking changed
248,120−38%
03
The brand cannot prove it is the real one
Verification has become something platforms sell, revoke and redefine. Impersonating a brand stays trivially easy, and the badge that answered it is now a subscription.
Search · maison aurore
MAMaison Aurore@maisonauroreVerified · $8/mo
MAMaison Aurore@maisonaurore.realNot them
The badge is a subscription
04
The brand has no address
What it has is a collection of profile URLs on domains it does not control, held together by a link-in-bio page on yet another domain it does not control.
linktr.ee/maisonaurore
instagram.com/maisonauroreTheirs
tiktok.com/@maison.auroreTheirs
youtube.com/@maisonaurore_parisTheirs
Four domains · not one of them the brand's
One address. Everything the brand is.
brands.best/yourbrand is an address the brand holds, a hub it opens, and a follow that is held against it.
Your brand. Your domain.
brands.best/yourbrand for free, and on Pro yourbrand.best — registered to the brand, renewable on its terms, and movable to any registrar.
brands.best/maisonaurore
RegistrantMaison Aurore
DNS controlYours
Move to another registrarAny time
All your links in one place
Every channel, store, booking page and newsletter on one page, at one address a customer can say out loud.
Maison Aurorebrands.best/maisonaurore
Book a treatment
The newsletter
Super Follow: Grow your customers
Super Followers follow the brand at its address, not a platform's — so the following moves with the brand.
Super Follow
12,846+24%
Held atbrands.best/maisonaurore
Moves with the nameYes
Click analytics
Clicks counted at the brand's own address rather than inferred from somebody else's dashboard.
Link clicks, this month
48,209+18%
Measured atyour own address
Send messages to Super Followers
Write once and it lands with every one of them — no feed deciding who was worth reaching.
Message to Super Followers
Spring treatments are open — 20% off your first booking with SUPER20.
Delivered12,846 of 12,846
Lands intheir super box
Private links for Super Followers
Rows on the brand's hub that open for the customers who followed it, and stay shut for everyone else.
On the brand's hub
Gift cards
Book a treatment
The members' ritualSuper Followers
Shut, not hidden
One address, one page, one following — and all three of them the brand’s. How it works walks through building it, Super Follow is the button the third card is about, and pricing is what each plan costs. About .best covers the domain the paid plans come with.
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For the brands, shops, restaurants, hotels, spas and media that want an official address of their own.