Traditionally, the differences between PR and marketing were always clear. While PR leaned more towards brand-building and driving awareness, the latter was more focused on advertising and generating revenue. But since the rise of social media, the lines between them...
Influencer marketing remains a go-to COVID strategy—9 in 10 marketers seeing big results
We’ve seen that influencers have been able to make authentic connections with consumers during the COVID crisis, and new research from micro-influencer marketing platform SocialPubli reveals that a whopping 90 percent of marketers say influencer marketing results are...
A visual guide to creating effective influencer marketing campaigns
For many brands, influencer marketing has become an important part of their overall social media marketing strategy, and with good reason. The average influencer campaign returns more than five times the investment for every $1 spent. But that average is hard-won. One...
Influencer marketing goes mainstream: 3/4s of comms pros increased spend in past year
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...
How influencer marketing can create brand connections in unstable, crisis-ridden 2020
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...
How one PR firm is committing to equality in influencer marketing
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...
The benefits of long-term relationships in influencer marketing
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...
Post-COVID: Influencers will get paid by audiences, not necessarily brands
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...
Instagram announces IGTV monetization—what it means to comms pros
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...
Influencer marketing is shifting in 2020, with YouTube and TikTok in a power struggle
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...
Consumers are finding influencers more helpful and trustworthy than brands during COVID
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...
4 tips for finding the right social influencers for your brand
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...