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What do sponsors
actually pay for?

Preston turned a phone video into paid work. Austin made content a brand ran as ads. Cristian took his sponsor’s story inside its factory. Here’s what each partnership involved.

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These are Turn One client stories. They show the partnership work behind the team building Sponsor AI; they are not measured results from the software.

Preston Lambert in the paddock
Preston Lambert · Turn One client
Preston Lambert 310.7K followersContent partnerships

A phone video led to paid content.

A business saw Preston’s airport simulator video and contacted him to create paid content.

Watch Preston explain how the deal happened
Separate campaign: Club Avolta2025 · Car branding · Reels · Stories

The video gave the business something to judge.

It could see his presentation and the experience he captured before discussing paid work. Watch Preston explain the sequence below.

Another partnership extended beyond the car.

Turn One’s published Club Avolta case lists car branding, Reels and Stories for a 2025 season partnership. The campaign links show how the brand appeared in his content.

The Club Avolta campaign and airport story are separate examples here; the available sources do not establish that they were the same deal.

What can you take from this?

Choose an experience or product you can make interesting on camera. An existing piece of work gives a potential partner something concrete to discuss. It does not guarantee an inbound deal.

Put it into practiceBuild an offer a brand can understand

Preston is Nick Lambert’s brother and part of Turn One.

Austin Jurs in the paddock
Austin Jurs · Turn One client
Austin Jurs 303.9K followersBrand advertising

He made the videos.
The brand ran the ads.

The EMF Harmony arrangement shows why a driver’s content can be valuable beyond their own social feed.

Watch Austin’s CarParts.com video
EMF Harmony2025 · UGC for brand ads · Monthly renewals

The brand bought content for its own channels.

This arrangement went beyond a post on Austin’s feed. The record describes monthly renewals across four months. It does not disclose the fee or advertising results.

You can see his work for other brands, too.

Austin’s own portfolio includes a CarParts.com video, an A-Premium integration and an EBOOST example. Open the linked videos to see how he brings a product into the content. These are separate campaigns, not evidence of the EMF arrangement’s results.

What Turn One worked on with Austin.

Turn One worked with Austin on pricing negotiations, replies to the brand and closing the agreement. Nick also worked with him on his partnership deck and outreach drafts. Austin created the content; Turn One worked alongside him on the commercial conversations that turned the opportunity into a deal.

What can you take from this?

Your audience is one part of an offer. Making content a company can publish is another. Be clear whether a proposed fee covers production, posting on your channels or use in the brand’s advertising, and agree how long that use lasts.

Put it into practiceMake your next sponsorship offer specific
Cristian Cantu in the paddock
Cristian Cantu · Turn One client
Cristian Cantu 147K followersOn-site content

From the factory floor to Team Valvoline.

Cristian’s partnerships with TPS Armoring, Bentley Mexico and Valvoline Global show how a driver can create content around the business beyond the circuit.

Read the published partnership record
TPS Armoring · Bentley Mexico · Valvoline Global2025–2026 · Brand campaigns · Social content

Different brands. Different stories to tell.

For TPS Armoring, Cristian visited the plant and created content around its vehicles. His Bentley Mexico campaign in 2025 brought another automotive brand into his social content. In 2026, his work with Valvoline Global included social posts and Team Valvoline campaign creative.

Each gives the audience a different view of the business: a place to visit, a vehicle to experience or a campaign to take part in.

The content work behind the partnership.

At Cristian’s June 2025 kickoff, Turn One planned content for his Spanish-speaking audience and set up a process for ideas, edits and review before posting. August check-ins covered the content board and preparing videos in advance of race weekends.

The work gave Cristian a repeatable way to develop ideas, prepare content and review it before publishing.

What can you take from this?

A sponsor may have a workshop, product demonstration or customer event worth filming. Ask what customers would find interesting, then agree access, the finished videos and who approves them.

Campaign examples and photos come from Turn One’s public Sponsor Wall. Partnership fees are undisclosed.

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