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"If you’re reading this, you probably got to it through an algorithm. That’s really common these days – and it’s a trend with a surprising dark side. Either you came here through a social media link, or you found it via a search engine. In either case, the algorithms that determine who sees what on those platforms […]
Read more "The Narrows – Four trends changing how information flows and news spreads"Thing 1: Customers aren’t looking for your sales materials any more. Strange as it may seem, there was a time when people reached for the yellow pages and contacted a company when they needed to solve a problem. Now people spend longer online, and get information from each other, before contacting vendors. A person with […]
Read more "Seven things you need to know about content marketing"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. […]
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Philip Trippenbach 