Founder of MG Empower, a global influencer agency, Maira Genovese, talks about how she helped Amaris create a new sweetener brand solely using influencers, first in Brazil and then in the US. This exercise involved taking a variety of influencers for a 5 day brand development retreat with brand experts onsite and involving the influencers audiences in the whole process. The engagement from the followers was tremendous but there were incredible insights that helped refine ideas for this exciting new brand. The future opportutnies for co-creation of brands with influencers are endless, find out more about this amazing success story. You can also find more information in the case study page: https://mgempower.com/work/purecane/

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In this episode Gordon Glenister, Global Head of Influencer Marketing at the BCMA talks to specialist influencer marketing legal expert Robert Freund shares his insights on the latest changes to the FTC guidelines and what brands and agencies should include in influencer agreements. We also discuss some of the impacts on legal cases and the fines imposed by organisations who don’t comply.

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In this episode Gordon Glenister, Global Head of Influencer Marketing at the BCMA, talks with Martin Jaskolowski, Global Head of Advertising and Digital at Pernod-Ricard. They discuss how the Chivas Regal whisky brand has used influencers to enhance its major advertising campaign. They talk about some of the types of content that has really resonated with the audiences from distillery visits to working with mixologists. They talk in detail about how you measure effective brand campaigns – reach or engagement?

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Entrepreneur Edward East talks about why he created the Billion Dollar Boy brand. Edward talks a lot about his personal journey. It all started in 2014 when the industry was almost a passing trend and now have a great team culture. Influencer marketing has been able to create production at scale at home. “Surround yourself with people who have those experiences” Edward says. Having the right team is absolutely vital and the CEO role is more of a support function with your team driving the change. Edward talks about exciting innovations with personalised content and what the future looks like.

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In this episode Gordon Glenister, Global Head of Influencer Marketing at the BCMA talks about the gaming industry and how content creators can make a huge difference to the launch of a new game. Kelvin Cery who is Vice President of Client Development and Brand Partnerships of BEN Entertainment Group and Jonathan Dodd, Manager of Global Creator Partnerships of Electronic Arts. The BEN group have had a longstanding partnership with EA and they’re also proud winners of the Streamy’s Influencer Agency of the Year due to its ground breaking AI technology. We talk about the impact the creators had on a product reveal which almost topped half a million viewers and half a billion minutes watched in less than 24 hours.

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Pitch Influence winner Alfie AKA QuantumCaza who is a Caffeinated Content Creator tells his story including the ups and downs of what it was like in his early childhood. He wanted to create video content that included animations. Animation is one of the biggest storytelling tools and so he commissioned an animator to tell part of his story. Alfie talks about the importance of having a niche when creating content and that’s why he chose coffee. “There is no such thing as bad experience – you are going to learn from it”. An active networker, Alfie misses events and talks about isolation and how content creators have been impacted by the pandemic.

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In this episode Gordon Glenister, Global Head of Influencer Marketing at the BCMA, speaks with Danny Lowney, who is the Managing Director of Sixteenth Talent who talks about what it’s like to run an influencer marketing talent agency. Danny explains the role the team in commercialising opportunities from the traditional publishing deal to more expansive co-created product. He talks about top YouTuber, Gabriel Sey and how they are repositioning him as a Dad in the fitness space creating a whole new audience for him.Also, how creating a new stationery brand with Jack Edwards proved extremely successful. Danny starts by telling me a little about what the agency does.

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In the episode, Gordon Glenister, Global Head of Influencer Marketing at the BCMA, speaks to Pamela Laird apprentice  contestant and founder of Irish Beauty brand Moxi Loves. She talks about her passion for beauty and nail products and how Instagram and…

In this episode, Gordon Glenister, Global Head of Influencer Marketing at the BCMA talks with Sophie Clark, Marketing Lead for social analytics platform, Talkwalker, the leading insights platform. Sophie shares the key findings from in-depth research…