As trust issues rose to the forefront for brands and businesses during the ongoing COVID crisis, influencers were found to be among the most authentic sources for brand marketing and promotion—and as a result, influencer marketing became a critical comms strategy in...
With its constant crisis-level landscape and ominous “adapt or perish” theme, you could say that 2020 has been one of the most challenging years for brands and businesses. But smart brands are realizing that changing consumer patterns due to the pandemic and...
Influencers are among the most visible, creative and impactful media platforms today, projected to be valued at $15 billion by 2022, cementing its place as a core communications channel for brands. Like all other industries, influencer marketing needs to implement...
Influencer marketing has been an important part of most brands’ advertising efforts for some time now, from small niche brands to well-known, long-standing ones. While marketing with influencers can take many different forms, such efforts fall into two general...
Just over a year ago, influencer campaigns were soaring; but since January, brands have all but stopped influencer spending. Among the many economic casualties of COVID-19, influencer marketing has fallen victim to a global hesitation of whether or not to fund...
Following an announcement last week, Instagram will soon open up a new influencer revenue stream in the form of IGTV advertisements. With many brand deals drying up in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the move is sure to come as a relief to countless online content...
Just as it’s always been, today’s influencer marketing is about hard-wired details like platform domination, number of followers and level of engagement—but now it’s also about less tangible factors like authentic voice and consumer trust.New research from global...
The COVID crisis has challenged brands to find innovative ways to connect with consumers, and new data suggests brand marketers may be losing ground to influencers when it comes to building trust. Consumers are spending more time and increasingly engaging with...
The power of social media has never been more apparent, with the top social media influencers being able to reach and connect with millions of fans across several different platforms. Take PewDiePie, for instance, a Swedish social influencer with 119.8 million...
If you’ve been tuning in daily to watch the news and pluck a few insights from press conferences, you’re in the majority. Most of us are on a steady diet of headlines, charts, and info about COVID-19 as we try to piece together how the pandemic will further impact our...
As a result of the economic disruption caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen a huge number of brands scale back their marketing activity. 62 percent of marketers have admitted to changing their marketing strategies due to COVID-19, only 14 percent of...
The current sheltering at home strategy presents CMOs who use influencers with online opportunities to stage events that appeal to their brand. A huge amount, 92 percent, of marketers recently surveyed by marketing research firm Econsultancy said that staging...