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UK-based fashion and style bloggers have abandoned their blogs in droves favouring Instagram according to a new survey by Vuelio, but at what cost? The number of UK-based fashion & Beauty blogs has plummeted according to Vuelio’s UK Bloggers Survey 2019, the annual report on the blogging industry. In 2016 nearly one-in-four blogs (22%) recorded in …
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When Labour MP David Lammy tweeted: “The world does not need any more white saviours” in response to an Instagram picture posted by documentary maker Stacey Dooley of her holding a young Ugandan child, it unleashed a row about whether charities need to change their approach to influencer relations. Here six experts weigh in on …
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By Paul Owen, Account Director, KRPR The decision to crackdown on websites that advertised misleading discounts on hotel rooms has been praised by a leading digital marketing agency, but they warn the scale of the issue is much larger. Experts at Fat Media say there are still major issues surrounding the use of backdoor online advertising …
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On 10 July 2018, I pulled up in a cab outside CIPR’s headquarters in Russell Square, London. There was a crowd outside, including quite a few of my colleagues. I thought for a moment that the fire alarm might have gone off. However, rather than shuffling awkwardly from side to side, as is tradition during …
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Avoid keyword squatting Instagram influencers. There is no point bringing your authentic ‘whole-self’ to work if your whole self is an a**hole. There’s no longer a separation of the personal from the professional. Our online lives are not distinct from our day-to-day lives. Both ebb and flow into one fully-rounded self. The most fundamental virtues …
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By Sarah Burns, Let’s get this straight from the start: the rules aren’t new. If you’re an influencer and you have a commercial relationship with the brand you’re promoting on social media you need to disclose that commercial relationship to your followers. However, although the rules haven’t changed, what is new is some guidance which explains …
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More reliable, more on-message and perfect in every way – virtual personalities prove you don’t need to be real to have influence. Miquela Sousa is a Brazilian-American fashion influencer and music artist from Downey, California. Better known as Lil Miquela, she has acquired 1.3 million Instagram followers organically since starting out two years ago. In …
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How can fashion brands maximise their impact via influencer marketing? London Fashion Week starts tomorrow (14-18 September). The 68th edition features 80 on-schedule designers; 54 of them hosting catwalk shows, 26 presentations and more than 20 events. The fashion industry is big business, for the economy. Last year it directly contributed £32.3billion to the UK GDP ($41.8billion). At this London Fashion Week – in …
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Tobacco companies are secretly promoting cigarettes via social media influencers according to a new report. Tobacco companies are secretly promoting cigarettes via social media influencers, according to a new report. Following a two-year investigation by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and Netnografica LLC, a U.S.-based consumer research and consulting firm specialising in online research, the findings have just …
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Fake people are everywhere online. It’s not fake news that’s the issue, but the widespread use of false identities. Facebook, for instance, admitted at the end of 2017 that around 12% of its users were false or cloned accounts. However, by the start of this year, the problem had worsened and the company had to …