Brand safety is no new fad. For years, brands have been hyper-aware of their public perceptions and have worked to ensure they are presenting a clean, family-friendly, and accessible image. While it may seem easy to do— how hard can it be to never say or do anything offensive?— the emergence of influencer marketing has forced brands to not only be...
Influencer marketing has grown exponentially in the past year and continues to rise with the growth of social media platforms like TikTok. As influencer marketing strategists, we have experience keeping up with a quickly evolving landscape of social content. With leagues of fresh faced Influencers entering the conversation seemingly every day,...
When it comes to influencer marketing, the connection between the Influencer and the brand has the power to make or break any campaign. Historically successful campaigns are remembered for how well the brand and Influencer worked together to produce content that not only emulated and effectively communicated the ethos of the brand, but that also...
Influencer marketing campaigns are like the gift that keeps on giving. Once you’ve completed a campaign, they live on in perpetuity online. As they continue to be discovered and engaged with online, they bring new audiences and attention to your brand with no effort from your brand’s marketing team.
Once you decide that influencer marketing is the way forward for your brand (along with 75% of marketers), your team will need to decide: to use or not to use an influencer marketing company?
TikTok is one of the fastest growing social media platforms in recent history. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, TikTok saw 315 million downloads— the most in a single quarter for any app, ever. Shortly after that landmark growth, TikTok surpassed 2 billion lifetime downloads. Now, halfway through 2021, it’s estimated that the platform sees 689...
For brands looking to make the biggest splash and the most headlines with their influencer partnership, there’s nothing executives like to see more than partnering with a celebrity. However, the process of partnering with a celeb is not as straightforward as partnering with other influencer tiers. It requires a deeper understanding of the...
Influencer marketing is a living organism. Every few months it evolves and grows into a new, more advanced form of its old self, and strategists are left running around trying to navigate these changes and include them in their progressive marketing campaigns. The latest evolution of influencer marketing is the pivot to virtual reality influencers.
No two influencer marketing campaigns look, feel, or sound the same. But every single one begins with the same moment: the first point of contact between brand and Influencer. Not to scare you, but this moment of Influencer outreach has the power to make or break your next campaign before it even starts. Too scary? Here it is again from a less...
Once you decide to run an influencer campaign for your brand there are a few big decisions right upfront. Primarily, you’ll need to decide if you are going to work directly with an influencer marketplace, partner with a managed service provider, or run the whole thing on your own.