{"id":1171,"date":"2019-07-11T09:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:03:48","slug":"influencer-marketing-what-we-learned-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/2019\/07\/influencer-marketing-what-we-learned-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Marketing &#8211; What We Learned in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/2018\/04\/buying-trust-thoughts-on-influencer-marketing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote a post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about influencer marketing, and we specifically looked at PewDiePie\u2019s campaign for Cheetah\u2019s Mobile game \u201cDancing Line\u201d, since it was a campaign that influenced us as viewers. So this year, when PewDiePie promoted another mobile app with a similar video, we decided to go back and see how well it performed, and from it try to cover how Influencer Marketing changed in the past year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><b><strong>Returning Success<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though PewDiePie and his content are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/15\/technology\/pewdiepie-new-zealand-shooting.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">often criticized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he manages to remain <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/277758\/most-popular-youtube-channels-ranked-by-subscribers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the #2 channel on YouTube <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(subscribers-wise), second only to T-Series, which is essentially India\u2019s VEVO, which isn\u2019t something any individual creator could actually compete with in the long run.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His audience has formed a strong and active community around his channel. So when he brought back his fianc\u00e9 to play another casual mobile game (this time it was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.habby.archero&amp;hl=en_US&amp;utm_source=Mediakix&amp;utm_term=Archero&amp;utm_content=PewDIePie\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Habby\u2019s Archhero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) the audience\u2019s responses were widely positive and accepting of the video, with over 406k upvotes (vs. 21k downvotes) and over 6 million views (as of July 8th).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I brought back Marzia for this\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vuuAMd2DaT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you go through the comments section you can see a generally positive attitude towards the video, with jokes about skipping the pre-roll 30 seconds ad to watch an 8 minutes ad, which shows that PewDiePie\u2019s followers actually accept, not to mention enjoy, this format.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pewd.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/pewd.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1172\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We wanted to compare it to last year\u2019s performance, but looking at the numbers this year posed a challenge, since alongside PewDiePie\u2019s influencer marketing campaign there were other campaigns running for this app, so there was a general rise in installs and app rank, but we could still see his influence through an increase in reviews for the app (his community can be identified through the use of a particular lingo and inside jokes) and through the massive rise in ratings, downloads and reviews in the days following the video (again, we can\u2019t attribute it exclusively to him, but his community\u2019s presence there is undebatable).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/appannie-GIF.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/appannie-GIF.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1173\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2><b><strong>Influencer Marketing on the Rise\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Influencer marketing became a staple when it comes to online marketing, with Instagram becoming the leading app where it\u2019s conducted. We can see the growth through the rise in the number of influencer marketing-focused agencies:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBack in 2015, there were just 190 influencer platforms and agencies. This grew to 335 in 2016, 420 in 2017, and 740 in 2018 \u2013 more than twice the number that existed just two years previously\u201d <\/span><\/p><cite> <a href=\"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/influencer-marketing-2019-benchmark-report\/\">InfluencerMarketingHub<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This rise signifies that there\u2019s an increase in marketing budgets dedicated to influencer marketing, that it\u2019s becoming a central marketing tool, and how the expectations from an influencer might be shifting from branding towards performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><b><strong>Doing it right<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We discussed some of these factors in our <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/linkto.post\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">last post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the subject, but there was still much to learn on how to run a successful influencer marketing campaign during the past year.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Influencers don\u2019t always succeed in influencing and can often cause damage to themselves or the brand they represent. One of the basics for a successful influencer campaign is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trust <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; for a campaign to work, an influencer needs to gain their audience\u2019s trust &#8211; they have to diffuse the situation and set their audience expectations straight &#8211; making sure they know it\u2019s an ad, and ideally, make it so they actually enjoy it<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Gaining Trust<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are different ways to gain the audience\u2019s trust and a great example is what Casey Neistat did, back in 2012, when he made a commercial for Nike. Neinstat started the video by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">declaring that this is a commercial<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and continued by telling his audience how he basically used all of Nike\u2019s budget to travel around the world with his friend &#8211; he got the audience into the story and interested them in the commercial (they wanted to see what he did with the money), and this was, and up till this day, a great<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">branding ad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Make It Count\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WxfZkMm3wcg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, that same creator a few years later made the mistake of<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">publishing a video without clarifying that it\u2019s an ad<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and there was some backlash that not only caused him to later edit the description box accordingly, but he also added a comment in the comments section and went through the comments and deleted most of the negative comments.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Casey01.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"58\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Casey01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Casey01.png 650w, https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Casey01-300x27.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption> Casey Neistat clarifying the video is an ad, following the negative comments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey02.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey02.png 500w, https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey02-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what happened? In 2017 he did a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V8mUeGa3HEE&amp;t=79s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commercial for Samsung<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but the video starts as a sort of a summer fantasy video, where he realizes his teenage dreams of spending the day in a fancy hotel, ordering room service, driving a fancy car, and picking up hot girls in bikinis, going to the beach, taking a yacht and ending the day with a crazy party, as you do in your fantasies. Only at the end of the 5 minutes video, there\u2019s a slide saying that it was all shot on a Samsung 8, making you realize you\u2019ve been watching a really long commercial.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey04.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"481\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey04.png 481w, https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/casey04-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On top of the backlash from people who felt schemed, because they didn\u2019t know they were watching a commercial, there were others that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">criticized the product itself<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, claiming that it\u2019s easy to say it was all shot on a phone\u2019s camera when you have a professional crew, a lot of phones,&nbsp; a crane and these amazing locations at your disposal.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The audience felt deceived on several levels &#8211; firstly because they didn\u2019t know that it was a commercial, secondly because they didn\u2019t \u201cbuy\u201d that this is the actual quality of the product, and thirdly because of the content &#8211; they know this doesn\u2019t represent Neistat\u2019s life, his wife is not present and instead there are these two models in a bikini presenting a fantasy. He went from making fun of the big corporate to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">making fun of his audience<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and they did not like it. Even though he has an impressive following and a community around him, with this campaign he lost their trust and hopefully learned an important lesson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Maintaining Transparency\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another influencer that had to learn a lesson was Gal Gadot. She did a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k2DPcpUYEcM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commercial for Huawei,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and to her defense, this is more of a classic commercial where she\u2019s their presenter and not what is commonly known today as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/later.com\/blog\/paid-partnership-feature\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paid partnership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but she did share it on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her personal twitter account<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she just mistakenly posted it with a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkbhd\/status\/988856069169598464?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">via Twitter for iPhone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d mark (a competing product). This mishap was then shared by YouTube tech personality <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/marquesbrownlee\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marques Brownlee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and immediately gained popularity, resulting in the deletion of Gadot\u2019s original tweet.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gadot did what she could and claimed that the commercial was tweeted by someone else on her team. Whether or not that&#8217;s true (it\u2019s very likely someone on her team posted it, but it\u2019s also very likely that she herself uses an iPhone) it\u2019s unconvincing to an audience when even the person that advertises the product doesn\u2019t use it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case of Gadot sits somewhere between a celebrity endorsement and influencer marketing &#8211; they did use her public image and matched the commercial to her character, she did share it on her twitter but<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it didn\u2019t feel as personal as most influencer marketing campaigns feel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, unlike most paid partnerships, it didn\u2019t feel like she was involved beyond being a presenter.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere is some overlap between celebrity endorsements and influencer marketing campaigns. But fans of influencers trust that their endorsement of a product or brand comes from a well-researched, more holistic place, rather than something as simple as a signed contract between a brand and a person of influence\u201d <\/span><\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/marketing\/examples-of-influencer-marketing-campaigns\">Karla Cook, Hubspot<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one of the reasons Gadot\u2019s mistake wasn\u2019t costly, just a bit embarrassing, and she continued being Huawei\u2019s presenter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Knowing The Audience\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another point to consider when choosing an influencer for a campaign is<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">making sure that the product matches the audience<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is probably one of the hardest things to do when it\u2019s not a specifically themed audience (a niche audience), such as Lin Manuel Miranda\u2019s. Miranda has around 2.8 million<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lin_Manuel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> followers on Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and he became famous for writing and starring in his musical Hamilton.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s constantly active on Twitter, and along with projects updates and good morning\\good night greetings he tends to \u201cadvertise\u201d causes that are important to him &#8211; they\u2019re usually related to social justice with a focus on Puerto Rico, so when he first shared a paid partnership ad with American Express it caught me by surprise. Representing a big credit card company was not what I expected, but he made sure those commercials still represent his image and it worked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lin-Manuel Miranda teams up with American Express 30s\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TgKsBwEwCRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This commercial<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is very intimate &#8211; it was shot in his house with his wife and dog, he went to visit his elementary school and met his friend at the barber\u2019s, he played his own piano and was seen working with his musical partner Alex Lacamoire &#8211; those are all \u201ccharacters\u201d that anyone following him on Twitter knows and the message of the ad is \u201csomeone has your back\u201d, implying that a credit card company is as reliable as your closest support system.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another commercial he did with them explained his side of the story better (at least for me) &#8211; and that\u2019s the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HagG1GLbYcM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small Business Saturday<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where he encourages everyone to buy from a small local business (which is more of the image Miranda has online). So not only did he post this commercial, he actually shared on his Twitter account all the names and addresses of these businesses he, to his claim, regularly attends.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The comments section proves the power of Miranda to influence and how personal it felt to the audience:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lingif.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/lingif.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1174\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, Miranda\u2019s example is kind of the exception to the rule &#8211; it shouldn\u2019t have worked but since he\u2019s likable and he managed to maintain his public image in those ads (I\u2019d be surprised if he wasn\u2019t involved in the creative process), it worked. If they had placed him in a first-class flight and presented the company as luxurious, for example, it wouldn\u2019t have worked. What these commercials did was use his connection with the audience on an emotional level rather than a materialistic level (it\u2019s not that we all enjoy the same products, it\u2019s that we relate to the story), and then it didn\u2019t matter that it\u2019s not a niche audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As implied from this Miranda story, I\u2019m one of those fans who closely follow him on Twitter, dreaming of the day I\u2019d actually see Hamilton live on stage and I appreciate how positively he\u2019s using his ability to influence his audience, even though he chose to represent a credit card company (and yes, that ad definitely brought tears to my eyes).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><b><strong>Shifting to Performance-Based Campaigns\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most noticeable change happening in the last year, aside from the general increase in the number of influencer campaigns, is that the type of campaigns changed &#8211; we see much more performance-based campaigns and less branding (especially after the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/influencermarketinghub.com\/no-fyre-festival-wasnt-an-influencer-marketing-success-and-other-lessons-from-a-disaster\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fyre Festival disaster<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), but not all influencer campaigns are good, I\u2019d actually argue most of them aren\u2019t &#8211; even those that aren\u2019t a disaster might not be good enough to influence an audience.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the really bad ones were actually criticized by that same guy that initiated this post &#8211; PewDiePie. He made a video where he reviews some of the worst <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RzQYEsL4MtM?t=337\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">influencer campaigns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I do want to point out that these examples are quite extreme and I personally never actually encountered an influencer campaign that was as obvious as reading off a script, pretending to play a mobile game on a desktop or having the narration not match the image.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The point being &#8211; this is still a relatively new marketing field for all sides involved &#8211; brands, influencers and audiences, so all parties are still learning, trying out things, and reshaping marketing strategies. Even the definitions <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paid partnership<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> vs <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sponsored post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">influencer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> vs <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">presenter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are still being formed and redefined.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketers today have to make sure they are extremely careful when choosing an influencer and shaping their campaign, we urge marketers to locate and approach influencers directly and not through an influencers directory or platform. As we\u2019ve mentioned previously, you want the audience to be relevant and the content to be good. Keep in mind that influencers\u2019 audiences demand a campaign that\u2019s relevant to them and feel more authentic than a commercial. Unlike a commercial, the emotional connection to influencers is bigger and so the disappointment or enthusiasm of them and the brands they represent can be much bigger and have a huge impact on both the product and the influencer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we wrote a post about influencer marketing, and we specifically looked at PewDiePie\u2019s campaign for Cheetah\u2019s Mobile game \u201cDancing Line\u201d, since it was a campaign that influenced us as viewers. So this year, when PewDiePie promoted another mobile app with a similar video, we decided to go back and see how well it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/2019\/07\/influencer-marketing-what-we-learned-in-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Influencer Marketing &#8211; What We Learned in 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[295,41,293,173,222,37],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-staging.cdn.persona.ly\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}