Exploring Gifta: the brand-to-influencer gifting logistics company

Episode 26 of the Influencer Marketing Lab - a weekly podcast
tracking the growth spurts and growing pains of influencer
marketing.


This podcast is sponsored by Tagger the data-driven influencer
marketing platform and social listening tool.


This week Scott Guthrie is in conversation with
friend-of-the-show Mark Dandy. Mark talks about Gifta. His
company which makes it easy for firms to pair up their brands
with the most appropriate influencers for gifting outreach
campaigns. Think of it as Birchbox meeting an influencer haul.


Apologies for the sound quality Mark sounds as though he's
recording whilst taking a bath. He does assure me he isn't. 


In this episode we discuss:


The idea behind the brand-to-influencer gifting logistics
company

The tips and tricks used to increase the likelihood of an
influencer producing content around the gifted product

How these efforts yield an influencer post rate of 85% and
above against an industry norm of between 60% and 70%

How ROI is tracked on gifted programmes  



Shifting gears we then examine a recent PR Week article based on
a report which claims: more than half of Instagram influencers
'engaged in fraud', with 45% of accounts 'fake'.


We ask: does commenting on friends' posts make you complicit
in an engagement pod?

Is machine learning sampling representative?

And, Is blacklisting an influencer who years ago once bought
followers the equivalent of placing them on Santa's naughty step
Infinitum 



Check out the Influencer Marketing Lab website for full show
notes and related useful links. 


Check out the Influencer Marketing Lab for full show notes,
related useful links and a transcript.

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