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Pierre-Loic Assayag is the founder and CEO of Traackr, one of the more sophisticated influence identification platforms on the market. His technology analyzes influence not by reach, but by relevance, often surfacing influencers brands would never realize were worth reaching. As a global platform, Assayag also has insights into the differences in influencers and influence […]

Michael Brito is one of the more experienced business-to-business (B2B) influence marketing practitioners in the world. He is the executive vice-president for the Zeno Group and has spent almost two decades building relationships for technology and SaaS companies in the Bay Area and around the world. His ideas and strategies around business-to-business influence marketing are […]

Just a few days after my Winfluence interview with Onalytica’s Alistair Wheate, his company announced the first major philosophical advancement in influencer marketing in years. Onalytica playfully announced on its blog that it is bidding farewell to influencer lists. But the real news of the announcement was the company will no longer simply look at […]

Onalytica evolved from the public relations and communications side of the marketing world rather than the advertising side. As a result, its approach to influence marketing is decidedly different than many of the advertising-oriented tools you find on the marketplace. It’s almost as if Onalytica stands as the PR argument for influence marketing philosophy while […]

Congratulations to the five winners of the Get.Online With Your Idea Domain Contest! We announced the five winners Tuesday morning on Digging Deeper and five lucky people have new .online domains to help launch their next big idea! The Get.Online team is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the .online domain name registration opening. They gave […]

As I perused the data coming from another survey of influencers about the state of influencer marketing, I kept thinking, “Yeah, this sounds right.” Just over 80 percent of influencers say they prefer mostly monetary compensation. The other 20-or-so say they prefer products and services as compensation. Over half say they would accept products and […]

I’ve never considered myself an SEO expert. But I do have to manage search engine optimization for clients and use SEO tools on a daily basis. As a writer, I also have made it a point to understand SEO copywriting, too. I’m often asked questions about SEO and SEO tools and am happy to share […]

Sam Fiorella co-authored one of the first books on influence marketing in 2013. He then used that research and smarts to re-shape his agency to reverse engineer influence marketing using branded communities. These walled gardens give brands the opportunity to research and identify pain points in the consumer journey to know exactly who, what, why […]

The biggest challenge brands often face in influence marketing is understanding influencer relevance is often more powerful and reach. Tabitha Hawkins founded the Association of Influencers and Content Creators to help influencers be more attractive to brands while also advancing equal representation and fairness in how brands leverage influencers. In this episode of  Winfluence – […]

Adrian Parker is the Global Vice-President of Marketing at Patrón Tequila and he has a very different take on influence marketing than many big-brand marketing leaders. In fact, his perspective is very much in line with the concept of Winfluence. Adrian and I talk about his take on transactional influence marketing versus that focused on […]

Kristy Sammis is the chair and executive director of the Influencer Marketing Association. The non-profit industry association is attempting to bring uniformity, standardization and cohesiveness across the influencer marketing industry. In this episode of  Winfluence – The Influence Marketing Podcast  Kristy and I discuss the IMA, unionizing influencers, standardizing metrics and the conflict of transactional […]

Ted Murphy founded IZEA, the first influencer marketing platform, in 2006 to cries of heresy from the social media crowd. Twelve years later, he took the company public and can take considerable credit for the industry’s growth. In the first official episode of Winfluence – The Influence Marketing Podcast, I catch up with Ted to […]