Trend Snapshot: Virtual influencers

Details how marketers can utilise virtual influencers to combat potential challenges with influencer partnerships and gain an innovative edge on competitors.

Major brands are beginning to experiment with computer-generated, ‘virtual’ influencers as a means of promoting their products on social media platforms.

Influencer marketing has become a powerful tool for helping brands to reach digital audiences, particularly when targeting younger groups. Globally, the industry is predicted to reach a value of up to $10bn in 2020, according to data from MediaKix.

However, recent incidents have raised questions about the reliability of influencers as brand spokespeople. Swedish star Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg, the world’s most popular vlogger, was dropped from YouTube’s ad platform after featuring anti-Semitic imagery in a number of...

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