The dig on influencers is that many come across as fake. The duck-lips, peace sign, selfie whores, as I tend to think of that segment of the influencer world, seems to live lives that none of us could imagine. And few of us couldn’t imagine them living them, either. When everything is perfect in your […]
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Since early March there have been dozens of post claiming influencer marketing is either dead, or about to run into its first depression or some other declaration of how COVID-19 is going to spell doom for those who make their money being fabulous online. While the economic schism that the corona virus has been will
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Danielle Wiley is one of the pioneering agency leaders in the influencer marketing space. The San Francisco-based thought leader founded The Sway Group, one of the leading influencer strategy firms in the world, more than a decade ago. I caught up with her at the Dad 2.0 Summit in Washington D.C. last month and chatted
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The Micro-Influencer is all the rage among marketing pros right now. Everywhere you turn someone talks about them, even recommends them over bigger influencers out there. While leveraging micro-influencers is incredibly smart let’s not let the hype distract us from some facts. New data out from the Influencer Marketing Hub and CreatorIQ hypes micro-influencers significantly.
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Leigh Roach and Tamara Schneider started a blog in 2017 to review and sing the praises of Kentucky businesses. In just three short years, they’ve exploded to have one of the most influential channels in the Bluegrass state called KyTasteBuds. It includes a blog, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube feed, a podcast and they made
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What if you could hit a brand analytics button and find out where your brand ranked against its category competitors on volume of organic content versus volume of sponsored content? What if you could then see how your engagement rate on your content stacks up against your competition, both from your organic posts and sponsored
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Not long ago, I wrote a piece for MarketingProfs about the four types of influencers. That typology was based on research from Jana Gross and Florian von Wangenheim, Swiss professors of technology marketing at ETH Zurich. They identified the four types in a paper titled “The Big Four of Influencer Marketing—A Typology of Influencers.” They
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There exists a gender gap in influencer marketing. At least that’s what a pair of published reports indicate. Forbes contributor Heather Leighton asked for my take on new HypeAuditor data last week that indicated male influencers earn seven percent more than their female counterparts. You can see her story and my take at Forbes. Today,
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If you’ve been reading the tea leaves in influencer marketing, you saw Facebook’s announcement of its new Brand Collabs expansion coming. The network further opened the new influencer marketplace to include Instagram and make it more widely available to influencer pages and accounts that meet certain engagement thresholds yesterday. The network claimed in its announcement
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finally issued a round of content aimed at clarifying its disclosure policies related to those with online audiences. The new brochure “Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers” and its accompanying videos and examples goes deeper than the regulatory body has ever gone and both simplifies and hardens the obligation.
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The headline in TechCrunch earlier this week read, “Instagram to test hiding Like counts in U.S., which could hurt influencers.” The piece, by the very good Josh Constine, explains that Instagram is trying to depressurize the network, making it less a Like competition between Internet stars. But the question of whether or not it’s good
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Influencer marketing software and marketplace company IZEA released what it now calls a monthly survey last week. The stats were added to its impressive landing page full of great topical statistics. This new poll of 250 influencer and content marketing practitioners, all either at agencies or brands, lauded influencer marketing the way you would expect.
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