When the first inklings of what we have come to call influencer marketing emerged in the late 2000s, Instagram, TikTok and SnapChat didn’t exist. Facebook was actually barely a thing at that point, because only college-tied emails initially earned access to the platform. YouTube existed, but web video was still complicated and cost-prohibitive for the […]
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There is a force at play in the influencer marketing space that puts the entire industry in danger. If that force isn’t reckoned with, and soon, the practice of leveraging individual content creators with attractive audiences on social networks for brands will die. This particular group isn’t killing influencer marketing intentionally, mind you. But they’re
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Kim Kardashian is not an influencer. None of the Kardashian-Jenner clan are. Neither is Cristiano Ronaldo. Nor Shaq, Nicki Minaj or Taylor Swift. All of these people are celebrities. Do they have a lot of online followers? Sure. But are the influencers? No. They are celebrities. And there is a difference. I’ve always though the
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When you get down to the core of what an online influencer is, these are people who leverage self-publishing tools like blogs, social networks, photo and video sharing sites to create content. Those that create compelling content or engage an audience of people around that content, or both, accumulate a following of people they have
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The book is officially launched and for those of you who have your copy of Winfluence – Reframing Influencer Marketing to Ignite Your Brand, you’ve probably started in on the book and know the name Tiffany Mitchell now. Her story of the now infamous motorcycle accident opens the book. To catch those of you up
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The official launch date of the book, Winfluence – Reframing Influencer Marketing to Ignite Your Brand – is Tuesday! This is technically the last episode of the podcast before the book is officially out — though Amazon has already started shipping it, so you can get it before then — but that launch date brings
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Nick Bilton‘s HBO documentary Fake Famous portrays influencers as superficial, purposeless and purveyors of staging their lives, followings and engagement. The film is compelling and certainly exposes the worst practices of social media influencers trying to just create fame. But it leaves out the rest of influencers, I would argue most of them, that build
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The headline of last week’s press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of New York issued another setback in the mainstream understanding and acceptance of social media influencers as legitimate publishers and information sources. It read, “Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign.” The mainstream media
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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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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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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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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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