Victor Lee insists his insight into influencer marketing began the day he watched a viral BuzzFeed video – all 48 minutes of it – that showed the excruciating drip, drip, drip process of exploding a watermelon, one rubber band at a time.
The svp/digital marketing at Hasbro, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based toy company, realized that the simple concept of everyday people sharing their everyday lives (and even their strange passions) had a mesmerizing potential.
Hasbro, he believes, has a “finite niche” in influencer marketing: kids and parents who buy toys for kids. The pragmatic problem,...