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As Influencer Marketing has grown to claim up to 20 percent of advertisers’ budgets, so has communication among influencers about their pay. The result? An awareness that not all brand partners get paid the same, even if they’re doing the same kind and amount of work. However, along with the influencer pay gap came organizations…

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pairing affiliate marketing with influencer marketing

Looking for ways to move your target consumers beyond awareness, consideration, and activation and down the marketing funnel to conversion? Pairing affiliate marketing with Influencer Marketing is your golden ticket. At its simplest, affiliate marketing can help turn your brand partners—social media gurus, bloggers, and Pinterest proficients—into brand evangelists. The question is, though, did you…

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Pinterest may not be your brands’ go-to platform for Influencer Marketing or even any other kind of marketing. I mean, it’s really more of a huge idea search engine than a social media platform. Maybe it doesn’t have the same up-to-the minute gratification that other platforms provide. But it can be one of the most…

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As mentioned in my discussion of 2022’s top five social media trends and their implications for Influencer Marketing, omniplatform or omnichannel integration  is a necessity for next year’s marketing strategies. By definition, it poses both multi-faceted and far-reaching opportunities and multi-faceted, horizontal challenges, both for brands and the various agencies that put their activations into…

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It may seem easy to correlate the rising popularity in videos around 2 minutes long on platforms other than YouTube and less than 10 minutes long on YouTube with the general populace’s shrinking attention span. But I think there’s more to it than that. If you’ve ever watched a video where the host talks for…

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Mark Zuckerberg hopes that by changing Facebook’s name to Meta, he will have staked sole claim to the new metaverse. That concept, however, will take years and billions of dollars for him and his company to build out, and it’s only part of the much bigger augmented reality “pie.” In fact, augmented reality—one of eight…

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