United States
Wakeupandreadthelabels is a United States-based clean-eating educator and food-label analyst who has built a following primarily on Instagram, with a…
Total Followers +0.9%
466K
Across YouTube, Instagram
Primary Platform
YouTube
24K followers · 5% of audience
Engagement
6.8%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
Est. $6.6K–$15K / IG post
Jen Smiley's barcode-scanning app — which flags hidden inflammatory ingredients and surfaces clean product swaps — released version 1.14 for Android, broadening reach beyond its original iOS release.
The app lets users scan grocery barcodes to instantly surface clean ingredient ratings, product swap recommendations, and recipes — a direct extension of her label-decoding brand.
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| Last 7 days | -100 -0.4% | +309 +0.1% | +0 +0.0% | +209 |
| Last 30 days | -100 -0.4% | +4K +0.9% | +0 +0.0% | +4K |
| Last 90 days | +0 +0.0% | +30K +6.8% | +0 +0.0% | +30K |
| Last 365 days | +0 +0.0% | +30K +6.8% | +0 +0.0% | +30K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read The Labels App Health & Wellness / Tech | Founder / owned brand | Long-term | — | |
| The Label Letter (TheLabelLetter.com) Health & Wellness / Media | Founder / owned brand | Long-term | — |
Wakeupandreadthelabels is a United States-based clean-eating educator and food-label analyst who has built a following primarily on Instagram, with a supplementary presence on YouTube. The channel's core premise is straightforward: translating the fine print on grocery packaging into plain-language guidance about which ingredients to avoid and which products make viable clean swaps. Content covers familiar wellness-adjacent territory — GMO concerns, resistant wheat starch, mold toxins in peanut butter, questionable additives in commercial teas — but the creator's approach leans investigative and specific rather than broadly motivational. Recurring hashtags around functional nutrition, hormone balance, and weight-loss resistance suggest the audience skews toward women managing chronic health concerns rather than general fitness enthusiasts, a positioning confirmed by audience demographics that run roughly two-thirds female and span a wide 18-to-45-plus age range.
What distinguishes this creator from the broader clean-eating content space is a deliberate move toward productization. Beyond social posts, Wakeupandreadthelabels has launched a dedicated app — the Read The Labels App — and a newsletter platform at TheLabelLetter.com, framing the venture squarely as an entrepreneurial media brand rather than a pure influencer account. The comment-driven engagement mechanic (prompting followers to comment keywords like 'BREAD' or 'WATER' to receive direct product recommendations) is a well-worn but effective conversion tool that supports strong organic reach. No current sponsor relationships are visible in the data, which may reflect a deliberate alignment-first approach or an early stage of commercial development. As consumer anxiety around ultra-processed foods and food-system transparency continues to grow, this creator is well-positioned to attract partnerships with clean-label food brands, supplement companies, and functional nutrition platforms targeting health-conscious millennial and Gen X women.
Wakeupandreadthelabels reaches an audience concentrated in United States primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories. Their sponsorship history skews toward Health & Wellness / Tech, Health & Wellness / Media, a clear signal of fit for brands in those categories. Demonstrated partners include Read The Labels App and The Label Letter (TheLabelLetter.com). Engagement on YouTube runs around 6.8%, pointing to an audience suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel brand campaigns rather than pure-reach buys.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Wakeupandreadthelabels's tier (Mid, 466K combined followers, United States). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Yes — the creator built a product called the Read The Labels App, which lets you scan food barcodes on the spot and get clean ingredient swaps along with recipe ideas. It's the centerpiece of their brand beyond social media, promoted directly in both their YouTube and Instagram bios as the practical tool that goes with their content.
TheLabelLetter, found at TheLabelLetter.com, is a resource the creator links to when sharing specific food guides — like their bread and taco breakdowns — that go deeper than a short Instagram post allows. It functions as a hub where followers can get more detailed clean-eating guidance beyond the social media feed.
This is an Instagram engagement mechanic where a follower drops a keyword in the comments and the creator sends them a direct link to a specific ingredient guide, swap list, or recipe. Wakeupandreadthelabels uses it regularly across food categories like chicken, tacos, and bread, which also signals to the algorithm that a post is generating high interaction.
Yes — their content goes beyond the grocery aisle. They've specifically called out products marketed as 'dermatologist recommended' cleansers for masking questionable ingredients behind authoritative branding. Their overall stance is that label-reading is a lifestyle skill that applies to anything you put on or in your body.
The creator has flagged that many mainstream grocery store teas are 'anything but healing,' pointing to additives or ingredients that contradict the wellness image those brands project. It's a recurring theme in their content — products with a strong health halo that fall apart once you actually read what's on the label.
Yes, and it's a core part of how they frame the label-reading conversation — not just as clean eating for its own sake, but as something directly tied to hormonal health and why some people struggle to lose weight despite trying. Topics like hormone balance and weight loss resistance appear consistently in their content and hashtags, which resonates strongly with their predominantly female audience.
GMO-free ingredients are a recurring concern in their content — #gmo and #cleaningredients rank among their most-used hashtags, and their overall framework treats GMO and heavily processed ingredients as things worth actively avoiding. They present it as consumer education rather than outright advocacy, but the direction of the advice is clearly toward non-GMO and minimally processed choices.
They do both — alongside ingredient callouts, they post recipes for things like healthy pizza and Italian dishes built around clean-label alternatives. The idea is to hand followers a practical 'what to eat instead' once they've learned what to avoid, which makes the channel more actionable than a purely cautionary one.
Despite YouTube being listed as their primary platform, their Instagram following is dramatically larger — hundreds of thousands of followers compared to tens of thousands on YouTube — and they post to Instagram almost daily. Instagram is clearly where the community lives, with YouTube serving a supplementary role.
The audience skews heavily female — roughly seven in ten followers — and is concentrated in the 18–44 age bracket, with the U.S. making up the largest share, followed by the UK and Canada. That demographic lines up directly with the clean-eating, hormone-health, and functional nutrition topics the creator focuses on.
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