Tag: influencers

Billboard has teamed up with tech firm Logitech to create a chart that quantifies "creators who are driving music consumption through content creation"

Influencer marketing in 2021 is more strategic and reliable than ever, with the pandemic only making it extra-popular. It’s also essential to get the nuanced parts right: so here’s how to avoid the pitfalls and attain...

We’ve seen a fair few studies of influencer marketing in our time, including many ‘influencer marketing is BRILLIANT’ reports commissioned by… influencer marketing companies! But eMarketer’s...

We wrote about startup Breakr in February this year: it was a tool to help artists and labels identify influencers to work with on marketing campaigns. Now the company has raised a $4.2m seed funding round led by Slow Ventures,...

Startup Songfluencer is one of the companies trying to connect music artists with music-related influencers (hence: ‘songfluencers’) for marketing partnerships. Now it’s expanding its activity with a program...

As the ‘TikTok-fuelled hit’ stories keep coming, so the idea of enlisting influencers on that and other social apps to help break a new track becomes more appealing – even if manufacturing such virality remains...

TikTok has its first nine-figure star this morning, with Charli D'Amelio becoming the first TikToker to reach more than 100 million followers on the platform. What's even more startling is the fact that she only joined...

In August, Dua Lipa launched her #DuaVideo challenge on TikTok, inviting fans to submit videos based on makeup, animation or dance using her 'Levitating' single. The promise was that the best creators would make it into...

TikTok’s Creator Fund started as a $200m commitment in July to be distributed among US-based TikTokers trying to build careers on the platform. It quickly expanded to a promised $1bn over three years, with a European fund...

Zebr originally started out as a new music discovery channel on Instagram and TikTok – and is now making an interesting move into influencer marketing. Zebr’s new app allows artists and their representatives to submit...

Is everyone an influencer in 2020? Well, not everyone, but according to investment firm SignalFire “more than 50 million people around the world consider themselves creators, despite the creator economy only being born...

Last month we reported on Riot Games, the publisher of esports game League of Legends, launching a new track for its virtual pop group K/DA. What we hadn't spotted, then, was a cover of the group's past hit 'Pop/Stars'...