March 26, 2019 2:50 pm
Published by Mikyron Padayachee
It has been a powerful few years for fashion influencers. Whether your personal style leans towards preppy, minimalist, edgy, or bohemian, chances are you find inspiration from a social media influencer. Fashion influencers show their audience how to style wardrobe basics, explore current trends and set new ones. The number of collaborations between brands and fashion influencers hit an all-time high in 2018. Fashion, cosmetic and health brands found collaborations with fashion influencers highly effective, with 70% of brands now adding influencers to their marketing budget. Many fashion influencers have successfully begun to monetize their influence by creating their own clothing lines and cosmetic companies.
Here are 5 fashion influencers on Webfluential who are making waves in the industry.
Safia is a French YouTuber and blogger living in Barcelona. Safia is passionate about theater, travel and writing. She also holds a master’s degree in marketing and communication.
Her primary motivation is to share different and original content that surprises her audience every time.
As a keen traveler, Safia likes to embark on journeys that inspire her audience.
What My Boyfriend Wore is a fashion diary with a difference.
Sergio’s girlfriend at the time loved documenting his outfits and started putting them up on Instagram, it became so popular that he started the blog, What My Boyfriend Wore. Now, it’s all about fashion for normal men. On Sergio’s channels, you will find the where, what and how of men’s style as well as the fun finds of living a gentleman’s life on the tip of Africa.
Priscilla and Brittany are two longtime friends from South Florida who started BRNZ Blog. Their love for fashion and beauty brought them together to launch a new creative in hopes that others can find everyday inspiration from their individual perspectives.
For Nicola, fashion is so much more than buying clothes and being trendy. It’s about expressing herself to the outside world. Nicola believes that If you dress differently, people will see you in another angle. Nicola loves traveling and experiencing different cultures. She picks up inspirational ideas and items from the countries she travels to.
Angelina performs as a DJ and as an artist at well attended, heavily publicized and exclusive events all around New York City. From tightly choreographed live shows on the catwalk at fashion events to DJ’ing at some of the more exclusive spots around NYC. Angelina organically mixes being a music producer and Dj with fashion and style.
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March 12, 2019 4:29 pm
Published by Mikyron Padayachee
In 2018 Influencer marketing was more prominent, more scrutinized, and at times more controversial than ever. Privacy transgressions amongst other problems troubled social media platforms. If marketers and influencers want to succeed in 2019 then they will have to take a few factors into account.
Forbes recently wrote an article on the Five Key Trends Shaping Influencer Marketing In 2019. We have summarised the article below and you can see the full article here.
Instagram rules
In 2018 almost all social media channels faced their own problems. Facebook and YouTube had privacy problems, Twitter had to remove accounts and Snapchat struggled with not only staying relevant but also staying alive. Even with all of this chaos, Influencer marketing has seen significant growth as the number of campaigns using influencers has doubled in the last year.
Instagram has been a part of 93% of all influencer campaigns in the last year. That is more than double the rate than Facebook and Youtube.
Instagram has leveraged the privacy transgressions that have plagued other social media platforms including Facebook. Many Instagram users do not seem to perceive that Instagram misuses collected user data. This, including the fact that Instagram is abundant with beautiful content and has paid attention to its user’s needs. This shows why Instagram will continue to be used in many campaigns in 2019.
Just one of the tools
Marketers have become more comfortable with the mechanics of influencer marketing. Marketers are now more sophisticated at integrating influencers into their digital campaigns.
Marketers have realized that their ideas are important, meaning that you can not give an influencer a poor idea and terrible content and expect them to carry the campaign based on their large following. Using influencer’s creativity needs to be seen as an extension to match up with marketer’s ideas as an advertiser. Brands can’t just hand influencers products and expect them to unauthentically push their audience to buy it. Brands need to look at influencer marketing as ‘creative execution’, leveraging the influencer’s talents and their creative skills to match advertisers ideas or message.
Marketers should consider tying the efforts of influencer’s organic reach to paid media, cross-promotion on other media and other marketing initiatives.
Going Nano
2018 saw the rise of not just the micro influencer, but also the nano influencer. A nano influencer is someone with a few thousand followers operating in a niche market. Fees are less, talent more impressionable and any potential drama more manageable.
While celebrities and macro influencers are still getting booked, the market has shifted. The average number of people following an influencer has halved in the last year to 500 000. This is an indication that the range of influencers being used in campaigns is much broader.
Going Long
Marketers are looking to foster long term relationships with influencers. Influencers also want long term relationships if the brand fits their personal brand and audience.
Long term relationships mean that influencers can put out a consistent message and grow their audience with the brand. More brands have been requesting influencers to co-brand new product lines or be the face of the company and introduce new products.
These deals, while giving influencers more security and continuity can also mean more scrutiny and strings attached. In most cases, these deals are more complicated as the brand can request tight exclusivity terms and rely heavily on the influencer’s authenticity.
Reaching beyond reach
A lot was done in 2018 to deal with influencers using fake followers. Many platforms, like Twitter, spent 2018 removing millions of fake accounts. Brands, such as Unilever, committed to never doing business with people who use fake followers. Data companies have become better at flagging potential fake influencers. Influencers have also been more willing to share their first-party data with marketers so that brands can see engagements.
Marketers are relying much less on reach as a metric. Marketers are relying more on sophisticated metrics such as cost-per-engagement, which can be tied more directly to their return on investment.
Expect the trend on influencer marketing, in general, to become more intertwined in digital campaigns in the next year as influencer marketing platforms and software become more sophisticated.
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March 6, 2019 9:49 am
Published by Mikyron Padayachee
In recent times it has become apparent that the ‘right influencer’ is not just someone who captures beautiful images and has the highest number of followers. The most successful influencer campaigns include influencers that meet certain criteria and show their value. Influencers are now expected to prove their value before, during and after a campaign.
As a marketer what should you be paying attention to before booking an influencer? As an Influencer how can you show brands and marketers that you have value and receive more booking requests?
Here’s what marketers are asking influencers before booking them.
1. Who is the influencer?
Unsurprisingly the first thing a marketer needs to know is who an influencer actually is. This includes where the influencer is located, what markets they are influential in, and a bio that includes a short write up of who they are as an influencer.
Here is an example of a great influencer bio:
2. Does the influencer’s online personality match the brand?
It is vital that a brand and an influencer’s values, personality and vision match. By using Watson AI, Webfluential can help brands and influencers look at the dimensions of content that matter most to audiences. Watson’s AI personality insights can also help recommend the most influential personalities that should drive the conversation about a brand, as well as if a brand will resonate with an influencer’s audience.
3. Who is the influencers Audience?
Influencers need to know who their audience is so that they know who they are creating content for and how best to adapt their content based on their audiences likes and dislikes.
Audience demographics are essential for brands to improve their targeting. With Audience insights, a brand will be able to see if the influencer’s audience aligns with their ideal customer profile. Brands will also be able to find and prioritize influencers based on their audience affinity to the brand and specific topics.
4. Are the influencers posts engaging?
The engagement rate of an influencer’s posts is a key metric to understand the level of interaction an influencer usually has on their content. An engagement rate is the percentage of the influencer’s audience that responds to their content.
5. Who has the influencer worked for?
Marketers need to know who the influencer has worked for. Marketers will need to see the influencers body of work and whether they have worked with competing brands. Being able to see an influencer’s body of work is an important insight when trying to gauge what kind of content the influencer can produce.
Finding and compiling all this information can be daunting for both marketers and influencers, but not to worry, Webfluential has you covered. All this information can be found on a Webfluential influencer’s Media Kit.
Influencers can create a Media Kit by creating a profile on Webfluential, linking all their channels and filling out the relevant information. Get started with your media kit here.
Influencers who are already on the Webfluential platform ensure that all your channels are linked and that your information is always up to date so that marketers have all the relevant information when considering you for a campaign. Update your information here.
Marketers will be able to view an influencer Media Kit when searching for influencers on the Webfluential platform. Making a decision on booking an influencer can be as easy as a quick search and then scrolling through an influencer’s information. Start booking influencers to tell your brand’s story here.
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