Influencer marketing provides an effective strategy to reconnect with customers personally. A 2020 study showed that more buyers—at least six out of ten—trust influencers over brand ads. However, like every other relatively new marketing strategy, marketers still...
3 creative ways to utilize social media in PR campaigns
These days, public relations and social media tend to go hand in hand because the role of PR is to generate positive press for a company, and social media is the place where people will see that positive press coverage. Most companies understand that the role of PR...
Social media marketing: What to stop, start, and continue doing in 2021
Social media marketing has become an integral part of digital marketing today. Social media plays a key role when it comes to increasing brand awareness and expanding the customer base. Moreover, luckily for business owners today, there exists a massive range of...
4 reasons why influencer marketing is a must-have strategy today
With influencer marketing, your brand focuses on using influential social media users to deliver your messages to an engaged, relevant audience. Influencers combine online campaigns, exclusive content, and user-generated content to market your brand and increase its...
OnlyFans’ switch to generic: A social media cautionary tale
Early this year, we wrote about OnlyFans and how its popularity represented a new path for social platforms, one grounded in creator control and against censorship. In the last few weeks, however, the company has thrown this narrative out the window. They announced...
6 industries that benefit from influencer marketing campaigns
Few things in recent years have changed the world so profoundly as social media. Not only has social media permeated our daily lives, but it has also become a staple in the world of business. It's used for marketing, branding, PR, and even customer service. And one of...
Looking for real influence? Forget celebrity influencers, focus on real people
New social network science research says it time to shift our thinking about influence At Engagement Labs, we have long believed in the power of everyday influencers to drive business results. And now there is new, independent scientific evidence that supports our...
Engaging esports audiences with influencer marketing campaigns
In recent years, the esports industry has seen exponential growth both in terms of popularity, as well as profits with different brands finding plenty of opportunities to reach a wide target audience. Just last year, the esports industry audience reached nearly...
With mega-influencers not yielding results, the ‘everyday influencer’ now reigns supreme
When making campaign decisions that include influencer marketing, it often boils down to a matter of scale—would your campaign benefit more from the larger overall visibility that a high-priced super-influencer can bring, or would you fare better with a smaller yet...
2021 influencer compensation: New research reveals emergence of a new pricing paradigm
How can you be sure to get the most out of your influencer investment? It starts with understanding the current compensation rates and what they are based on—and according to new research from warm contact influencer network Intellifluence, a new pricing paradigm...
Social media’s ‘influential’ role during the 2020 Olympics
Due to the global pandemic, the latest edition of the Olympic Games was largely virtual, which gave social media channels and digital formats a crucial role in helping people tune in to the games and following the event. This will also make the 2020 Tokyo Olympic...
How social media can help executives hit a brand storytelling home run
If you build it, they will come. A succinct yet powerful statement that’s been prominently referenced for nearly four decades, since we all heard the hauntingly inspiring whispers in 1989’s “Field of Dreams.” But unlike a magical baseball diamond in Iowa where the...












