- Robyn Turk
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Influencer marketing has become an integral element to
advertisement strategies across all consumer industries, yet it might
not be as reliable as once thought. According to a recent study,
Instagram’s monthly active user data might be overrated by up to 45
percent.
Marketing specialist of startup brand A Good Company Emilia
Cullborg took an anonymous survey amongst a portion of the brand’s
ambassador network to help distinguish a clear correlation between
influencer marketing spending and sales.
Cullborg distributed a survey to all 4,102 ambassadors in A Good
Company’s platform, inquiring as to their takes on their role, along
with questions of number of followers, engagement and whether or not
they have utilized paid services such as engagement pods, paid
followers or paid comments. Only around 10 percent of the 4,102
ambassadors responded to the survey.
They survey determined that 60 percent of influencers employ paid
services, each experiencing various levels of success. Nearly half of
respondents said they would likely not use a paid service again, while
23 percent definitely would use it again.
“As it turns out, marketing spends equal to 744 million dollars is
mainly going to Russian Bots and mass-follower accounts, with
micro-influencers cheating the system the most,” Cullborg wrote in a
press statement.
