France
Marina is a France-based food creator of African origin — likely Cameroonian, based on the Cameroon country code in her contact details and her repertoire of dishes such as kossam, corntchap, and beignets rooted in Central and West African culinary traditions.
Total Followers +0.9%
2M
Across Instagram, YouTube, TikTok
Primary Platform
335K followers · 17% of audience
Engagement
2.2%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Macro
Est. $5K–$12K / IG post
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +736 +0.2% | +5K +1.8% | +0 +0.0% | +6K |
| Last 30 days | +3K +0.9% | +15K +5.3% | +0 +0.0% | +18K |
| Last 90 days | +16K +4.9% | +49K +17.8% | +236K +16.9% | +302K |
| Last 365 days | +16K +4.9% | +49K +17.8% | +236K +16.9% | +302K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HelloFresh Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Dec 2025 | — |
| Sendwave Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jun 2025 | — |
| Assaisonnement Marina Food & Spices | Founder / owned brand | Long-term | — |
Marina is a France-based food creator of African origin — likely Cameroonian, based on the Cameroon country code in her contact details and her repertoire of dishes such as kossam, corntchap, and beignets rooted in Central and West African culinary traditions. Operating from the Île-de-France region, she built a substantial cross-platform following through tutorial-style recipe videos delivered in French, targeting the African diaspora community across Europe. Her content blends approachable cooking instruction with cultural preservation, presenting dishes that are largely absent from mainstream French food media.
Beyond content creation, Marina has developed a parallel e-commerce operation centered on her own line of natural African spice blends, sold under the Assaisonnement Marina brand and shipped across Europe, Canada, and the Caribbean — a product line that gives her revenue independence rare among food creators at her tier. Her sponsorship mix is revealing: Sendwave, a remittance app favored by African diaspora households, signals how clearly she is positioned within that community, while a HelloFresh partnership demonstrates her crossover appeal to mainstream food advertisers. With YouTube growing faster than her other platforms and a loyal, overwhelmingly female audience aged 18–44, she is well placed to deepen both her brand business and her creator income simultaneously.
lacuisinedemarina reaches an audience concentrated in France primarily through Instagram, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. Their sponsorship history skews toward Food & Spices, a clear signal of fit for brands in those categories. Demonstrated partners include HelloFresh and Sendwave. Engagement on Instagram runs around 2.2%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and Instagram Reels and Stories lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows food content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For France-focused brands in Food & Spices and related categories, lacuisinedemarina offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at @lacuisinedemarina's tier (Macro, 2M combined followers, France). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Kossam is a traditional Fulani fermented milk drink popular across West and Central Africa, similar in texture to a pourable drinking yogurt. La Cuisine de Marina has shared multiple homemade kossam recipes, walking through the fermentation process step by step in French. Her tutorials make the dish accessible for African diaspora audiences in Europe who want to recreate traditional flavors from scratch.
Assaisonnement Marina is La Cuisine de Marina's own line of African spice blends and seasonings, inspired directly by the flavors used in her cooking videos. The spices are described as 100% natural, with no additives or preservatives. They can be ordered through her website or by phone, and she ships to customers across Europe, North America, Canada, Switzerland, the Caribbean, and the UK.
La Cuisine de Marina is based in France, in the Île-de-France region, but her content and contact details point strongly to Cameroonian roots. She lists both a French (+33) and a Cameroonian (+237) phone number in her TikTok bio, and her recipes center on Central and West African cuisine — including dishes like kossam, corntchap, and beignets that are staples of Cameroonian home cooking.
Corntchap is a traditional Cameroonian dish made from fermented dried corn, and properly cleaning and processing the kernels is a step many recipes gloss over. La Cuisine de Marina dedicates specific videos to this preparation stage, which reflects her broader approach of teaching authentic technique rather than just showing the finished dish. Her audience has responded strongly to this level of detail.
Yes — Assaisonnement Marina spices ship internationally, including to Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Caribbean, as well as across mainland Europe. Customers in the Île-de-France region can also pick up orders in person. She lists both a website and a direct phone number for placing orders.
Sendwave is a money transfer app used heavily by African diaspora communities to send money to family back home, making it an organic fit for La Cuisine de Marina's audience. The majority of her followers are French-speaking women of African heritage living in France and neighboring countries who maintain strong ties abroad. The partnership reflects her positioning as a creator rooted in the African diaspora community in Europe.
Yes — alongside her spice range, La Cuisine de Marina sells cookware, including casseroles listed on her website at lacuisinedemarina.com. She presents the pots as suited to preparing the African recipes she shares in her content. Like her spices, the cookware is available to order online or to collect in person in Île-de-France.
The numbers in her bios — one French, one Cameroonian — are listed specifically for spice and cookware orders. This direct-to-consumer approach is common among African diaspora food creators whose communities often prefer WhatsApp or phone contact over a standard web checkout. It reflects the close, community-rooted way she runs her product business alongside her content.
La Cuisine de Marina specializes in African home cooking, with a focus on Central and West African recipes — particularly Cameroonian dishes — taught entirely in French. Her content covers traditional fermented drinks like kossam, street-food staples like beignets, and corn-based dishes like corntchap. The approach is practical and tutorial-style, aimed at diaspora audiences who want to cook familiar food from scratch.
La Cuisine de Marina's largest audience is on TikTok, where she has over a million followers, compared to a few hundred thousand on Instagram. She also maintains a significant following on Facebook and a growing YouTube channel that has picked up momentum in recent months. TikTok is where her content has driven the most reach, particularly through short cooking reels.
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