A month-long initiative encouraging content streamers across multiple social platforms to fundraise is just one example of Starlight embracing the virtual realm to keep funds coming in during the crisis.

Like any brand today, the constant re-upping of customer experience (CX) is vital to succeed in hospitality. And as StayWell expands into a new luxury category with its Prince Akatoki brand, it is hoping its CX will do just that.

After 260 years as the very epitome of luxury brands used by actual royalty, Wedgwood has undertaken a rebrand to better represent what luxury means for a modern consumer.

Despite general market scepticism, the influencer marketing platform (IMP) market is set to reach US$373.5 million, or 12.3 per cent, by 2027, a new report predicts.

Amid all the jokes of ‘Scotty from Marketing’ and the general cries of a lack of authentic leadership in the current bushfire crisis, one Australian has used the power of social marketing to raise over $51 million in support of the NSW Rural Fire Service.

Retail stores of the future must be flexible to adapt to rapidly changing consumer demand, boast of embedded sustainability, and become experience and information destinations over transactional capability, Luxottica’s VP of marketing, Milena Cavicchioli, believes.

A new industry council for local influencer marketing has been created by the Audited Media Association of Australia (AMAA).

​Have you seen the video with US speaker Nancy Pelosi appearing to be drunk and slurring her words? Or perhaps you’ve seen the one with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joking about knowing the public’s secrets? Or the videos of Rasputin singing Beyonce, Andy Warhol eating a Burger King burger or Salvadore Dali being brought back to life? In 2018, Barack Obama warned in a video about enemies making it look like anyone is saying anything at any time.

Tourism NT is looking to connect directly with millennials through its latest social media marketing campaign that will feature a group of seven social media influencers including travel bloggers and content creators on a trip around the Territory. The influencers will provide owned content for Tourism NT including images, videos and travel articles. Tourism NT has also engaged Facebook, Pedestrian TV, Spotify and YouTube to reach the millennial market.

A comprehensive social media campaign supported by research has made all the difference to Australian Eggs, the not-for-profit industry body supporting egg farmers across Australia.

From an at-home side hustle started with $100, to a multi-million dollar, international fashion brand, it’s not every business that can claim Misha Collection’s exponential growth over the past five years.

Unilever CMO, Keith Weed, has been crowned the world’s most influential CMO, followed by GE’s Linda Boff and Twitter’s Leslie Berland, all key figures driving transformational change within and outside their organisations.

It’s not hard to find social media influencers to talk about holidays, restaurants and televisions. But what about a gel designed to alleviate vaginal dryness?

Israeli drinks company SodaStream is beefing up its video presence and social media play in the wake of successful influencer marketing campaigns including ‘Join a Revolution’ featuring ‘The Mountain’ from the Game of Thrones.

With 80 per cent of Australians spend more time on the Internet than they do watching television, CMOs must look beyond traditional channels and harness online if they are not to be left behind by an increasingly connected and digitalised consumer.

Marketers need to rethink influence marketing in the new year if they want better marketing outcomes and more authentic experiences, otherwise they run the risk of wasting money on simply a ‘gun for hire’, several experts agree.

Blockchain is rapidly capturing the imagination of the business community, exploding beyond its origins underpinning Bitcoin to become the proposed solution to all manner of transaction-based processes. Now one entrepreneur is planning on using it as the basis for a service that will connect businesses seeking promotional and affiliation services with influencers.

Millennials are a highly influential group when it comes to making recommendations on home electronics. But they are also notoriously difficult to reach through traditional advertising.

Influencer marketing is fast becoming a powerful way brands can connect and engage with audiences. But the right collaboration needs a strategic mindset, founder of social influencer agency theright.fit, Taryn Williams, said.

The rapid rise of the social influencer has given brands new and exciting ways to get noticed by customers, and while experts welcome the recent AANA rules, which push brands to disclose they are collaborating with social influencers on sponsored posts, many think more needs to be done.

Carlton United Breweries has signed on as the exclusive Australian partner for a new social influencer app launched by boutique agency, Social Soup.