Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Thats why B2B influencer marketing is nothing to scoff at. When you hear the word influencer, its not uncommon to think beauty bloggers and Instagram models, but the professional space is also ripe with impactful voices that can help B2B brands build brand awareness, boost engagement, earn trust, and ultimately close more business.

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Martech

JULY 26, 2024

A pair of influencer marketing platforms were acquired by agencies this week, in a sign the advertising industry sees a future in influencer-led strategies that’s bright enough to attract investments in the technology behind them. But make no mistake, this marriage — like many in marketing today — is built on data.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 25, 2025

Over the past several years, social media completely changed how people interact with brands. Advertisements that once dominated feeds now compete with user-generated content, personal recommendations, and influencer endorsements. Quick Takeaways Influencer marketing uses trusted voices to build connections.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 27, 2025

Influencer marketing will be pivotal in most brands’ marketing tactics in 2025. Recent research reveals a remarkable increase in Australian influencers, prompting digital marketers and brands to pour significant resources into this approach.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Marketing teams can’t afford to lose direction when navigating influencer collaborations, hashtag campaigns and content creation. Without a clear strategy when partnering with creators and influencers, you risk losing time, opportunity and resources. What is an influencer marketing strategy template?

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Buffer Marketing

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Looking to get into influencer marketing for the first time? It's become a core marketing channel for many brands — and for good reason: It helps your brand appear more authentic and relatable. That's why 69% of brands increased their influencer marketing budgets this year.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Social media marketers understand how pivotal influencers are to the success of their brand. At the same time, they don’t always know the perfect formula to succeed with influencer marketing. How can you make sure your influencer marketing methods are going to pay off?

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Martech

JANUARY 3, 2025

Influencer marketing and social media management platform Later announced Friday it acquired Mavely for $250 million. Dig deeper: Why influencer marketing is critical in B2B Influencer firms need data, AI to compete with large agencies eMarketer expects influencer marketing spending in the U.S.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Theres never a dull moment in influencer marketing, which faces a significant challenge this year with the law banning TikTok in the United States. Even without the platform that made it famous, influencer marketing is now a significant channel for marketers. But how did we get here? Processing.

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Grab your pumpkin-spiced latte, settle in with Noah Kahan's Stick Season, and get ready to hear from a paid marketer who’s all-in on influencers, storytelling, and AI-targeted ads. De Feu is so confident about influencer marketing that he negotiated to bring it under his paid ads team. Happy fall, MiM-ers!

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Yet, as organic reach becomes more elusive, brands are looking to TikTok branded content as a way to truly connect with their audience. This guide will show you everything you need to know about TikTok branded content. It’ll show you how it works with influencer marketing and how to measure its return on investment.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 15, 2025

Brands based in the USor who have a strong follower base in the USwill need to reevaluate and diversify their network strategy immediately. The ban will require marketers to pivot quickly, adapt fast and make room for experimentation. That doesnt mean you need to create a brand presence everywhere. What is the US TikTok ban?

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It isnt uncommon for companies to receive hundreds of brand pitches in their social inbox from influencers and creators. Sprouts Influencer Marketing Report found that 93% of influencers say the quality of a brands existing content impacts whether they agree to collaborate. What is a brand pitch?

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Launching an influencer marketing program is no small featespecially for B2B brands. Yet, influencers are the modern way to reach audiences, and their content dramatically outperforms most content that comes directly from brands.

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Martech

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No less than 50% of B2B marketers won’t reach their goals this year. When sales and marketing teams are firmly aligned, the outlook is much better, with 80% saying they will reach their goals. The chief barriers to achieving desired outcomes cited by the marketers are: Budget and resource limitations (48%). Why we care.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 4, 2024

In the last five years, influencer marketing has come a long way from an experimental content-for-product swap to a full-fledged marketing tactic. Influence Marketing Hub estimates that the industry will total $24 billion by 2025, up from $1.7 What is Instagram influencer marketing? billion in 2016.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There lies the magic of B2B influencer marketing. Influencer marketing has long been a staple for business-to-consumer (B2C) brands looking to cultivate more authentic connections with their audience. It’s time for B2B brands to embrace the power of influencers. What is B2B influencer marketing?

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Vertical Response

JULY 7, 2024

Wondering which social media platforms to use to elevate your brand in 2024? Instagram excels in visual content and influencer marketing, providing numerous creative formats and strong e-commerce features, making it essential for brands targeting younger demographics.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Before the 1960s, young people were seen as an undesirable marketing audience and mostly ignored. Since then, marketers have been trying to reach a revolving door of youth generations—from Boomers to Gen X to Millennials, and now Zoomers and Gen Alpha. What brand content does Gen Z engage with? Sound familiar?

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When I think of influencers, I think of smiling content creators posting unique, relatable content promoting a service or product and how their work helps humanize brands and tap into audiences. It turns out, like all things marketing, AI has the potential to alter influencer marketing significantly.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Key takeaways Brand loyalty is the emotional connection that drives repeat purchases from a specific brand, even when alternatives exist. Building brand loyalty involves understanding customer needs, leveraging user-generated content, personalizing all touchpoints, rewarding repeat customers, and providing stellar customer service.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Is it any wonder that it’s so challenging to get your brand the recognition it deserves? And one of the most effective ways to boost your online branding is by updating your marketing processes. After all, the way consumers interact with brands keeps evolving. Are they still “on brand”? The Top XYZ for 2024”.)

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 12, 2024

Adding B2B influencer marketing to your owned media strategy can boost that advantage. Learn the benefits, influencer types, estimated pricing, and how to get started today. Businesses are the most trusted entity today.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Social marketers rate influencer marketing as having a significant impact on their brand’s marketing efforts including customer loyalty (87%), awareness (89%) and reputation (87%), according to our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey of 307 social marketers in the United States. What is an influencer marketing campaign?

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Martech

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The decline of marketing as an influential business function is well documented. Among C-suite roles, chief marketing officers (CMOs) are the least likely to advance to the CEO spot and the most likely to be dismissed. While many external factors contribute to this decline in influence, much of it may be self-inflicted.

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Sprout Social

MAY 9, 2024

The brands are the DJs, guiding the tone of the party with music (products) while consumers are the crowd. Then, there’s influencers—the dancers commanding the room with their magnetic energy and vibrant moves. Trendsetters and culture drivers like Lia have made influencer marketing an essential piece to social media strategies.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As a content marketer, I‘ve always been ready to team up to boost a brand’s vibe and reach. When one of my freelance clients needed some brand growth on a budget, I was pumped to jump into the influencer marketing game. Who hasn't seen or read about the hype around influencer power, right?

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Social Media Examiner

APRIL 4, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore how to create a no-cost B2B influencer marketing program. Why Is Influencer Marketing Important?

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Martech

MARCH 12, 2025

Marketers have more tools to help build and measure brand than ever before, but understanding the impact of brand marketing remains a challenge for many organizations. In our conversation about brand and marketing leadership, Garbe shares three metrics that he sees as leading indicators of how a brand is performing.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Global social media marketing strategies and new tools are empowering more brands than ever before to reach a worldwide audience. Creating an Instagram account or working with an influencer now gives businesses access to millions of people right away. What is a global social media marketing strategy?

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As a content writer in the digital marketing space, I spend a lot of time breaking down industry terms, concepts, and strategies, some of which can be more confusing or difficult to grasp than others. Table of Contents What is B2B2C marketing? Put simply, when B2B2C marketing is utilized effectively, everybody wins.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

Finding the right influencer for a brand campaign can feel like dating. You want someone who shares your values, aligns with your goals, and will make a great impression on your friends and family — or followers, in your brand's case. 20% of marketers said YouTube yields the highest ROI when working with influencers.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Either way, it seems like all of our favorite channels are actively competing for gold, which presents quite the range of social media marketing challenges for us. In fact, our latest social trends report shows that they’ve manifested into the biggest challenges social media marketers are facing this year. Is it Instagram?

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Businesses Grow

MARCH 10, 2025

There’s a whole world of marketing disruption and opportunity to talk about, so let’s put GPT on pause for a moment and consider the State of the Nation and the 10 biggest marketing challenges. I get a broad, global perspective of marketing issues from the very largest companies to solopreneurs and startups.

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Buffer Marketing

AUGUST 7, 2024

Influencers have become powerful voices in shaping consumer behavior and brand perception. In a report by CreatorIQ , 55 percent of TikTok users state that they trust a brand more when it's shared by a creator – and we can assume the same rings true for other platforms.

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a world driven by content marketing , understanding how your target audience prefers to consume information is critical to getting your messages seen and heard. All consumers are unique, but that level of personalization as a marketer isn’t really realistic. Image Source What can you do as a marketer?

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Buffer Marketing

MARCH 19, 2025

Honestly, I had no clue if sponsored content would even work on LinkedIn — or if brands would care. I shared my goal to make $20,000 in 2025 from LinkedIn brand partnerships, and within two weeks, I got my first official LinkedIn brand partnership. Ready to turn your LinkedIn into a meaningful revenue stream?

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