influencer marketing

Sponsored social endorsements

Influencer marketing is advertising through people who have built dedicated followings on social media.

Brands pay or provide free products to influencers—people with audiences on platforms like Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok—to promote their goods, banking on the trust followers place in these personalities: The company shifted its budget from traditional ads to influencer marketing.

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marketing channel/method

influencer marketingtelevision advertising

Paid broadcast promotion

print advertising · billboard advertising · radio advertising · broadcast advertising · newspaper ads

authenticity/trust source

influencer marketingpress releases

Formal announcements for journalists

celebrity endorsement

communication direction

influencer marketingmass marketing

Undifferentiated consumer outreach

Family

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