You have been sent free things before, with a brief, a deadline, and a list of words you were not allowed to use. This is not that.
What we send you
- One product from the range. You choose which. The bread box, the cookie jar, the peel, the lame, the butter dish, the squeezer, or the watering can.
- Free, and yours to keep. Nothing comes back to us, ever, whatever you end up saying about it.
- Shipped USPS at our cost, packed in one to two business days and with you in three to seven.
- The same guarantee any customer gets. Lifetime on the squeezer, two years on the rest.
What we do not send is money. There is no fee at the moment and we are not going to dress that up as an opportunity. If that makes this not worth your time, it is a fair call and no hard feelings.
What we ask
- Be honest. If the butter dish is too small for the block of butter you buy, say so on camera. That sentence is more useful to us than a hundred nice ones, because it stops the wrong person ordering it.
- Tag us, so people can find the thing you are holding.
- Say it was gifted. Plainly, in the post itself, not buried in a hashtag at the bottom. Your audience is owed that, and so is the FTC.
- Use it first. A week of actual mornings beats an unboxing. There is no deadline, but there is a point: post when you have something to say.
What we do not do
- We do not approve your copy. No script, no talking points, no draft sent to us before it goes live. You know your audience and we do not.
- We do not ask you to delete a negative post. Not now, not later, not politely. If you take against something we made, that post stays up and we will read it properly.
- We do not ask for exclusivity, or lock you out of talking about anyone else.
- We do not repost you without asking. If we want to use something on our own channels, we ask first and we credit you.
- We do not chase. One email when it ships, one when it arrives. If you go quiet, that is the end of it.
Why there is no follower minimum
Because a follower count does not tell us whether you cook. It tells us how many people once tapped a button.
We make kitchen tools for people who bake their own bread, set the table on a Tuesday, and have replaced the same cheap squeezer three times. Someone with three hundred followers who is genuinely one of those people is worth more to us than a large account that will hold the box up, read the spec, and forget it by Friday. So there is no threshold to clear. Send us your work and we will look at the work.
The honest bit
We are pre-launch. Everything currently shows sold out on this site, so if you apply this week your piece may take a little longer to reach you than the shipping page suggests. We would rather tell you that up front than leave you wondering.
We are also small, and we cannot say yes to everyone who writes in. You will get a real answer either way, usually within two business days, and it will not be a template that never lands. And we can only ship inside the United States at the moment, which rules out a lot of people we would like to work with.
How to apply
One email to hello@kensingtonlondon.com. Three things in it:
- A link to your work. One link to the place you actually post, not a media kit.
- Which piece you want, and one line on why that one.
- Whether you are in the US, since that is where we can currently ship.
No form, no portal, no application window. If it is a yes, we will ask for your address then and the piece goes out that week.