For a long time I’ve been wondering when Facebook would reach out and claim a slice of the huge and juicy influencer marketing money pie. With influencer marketing budgets growing at an astonishing rate year-on-year, it seemed like it was only a matter of time before the biggest social media platform in the world tried to take a cut. […]
Read more "Influencer Marketing: Facebook is Staking its Claim"Sponsored content. Native advertising. Whatever you want to call it, if you do it right, it’s good for the public, good for publishers, and good for brands. Why are people so nervous about it? This is the text, more or less, of a talk I gave at the Digital Media Europe 2014 conference in London this afternoon. […]
Read more "#DME14: How to stop worrying and love sponsored content"This video embodies all that is wrong with Old Advertising: It’s a genuinely touching piece of visual storytelling. It shamelessly checks every box: Story of separation and longing – check. Set in a pure sunlit rural locale – check. Background characters are handsome/beautiful, all-American – check. Soundtrack is a recently popular bittersweet lovesick ballad – […]
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Philip Trippenbach 