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The Hot College Gig: Online Brand Promoter
- overcast 8y agoStep 1 - Be a hot young woman. If first step not achievable, you better have some seriously awesome content and savvy marketing skills.
- Kagerjay 8y agoThat's also like every dating article 1) Be attractive 2) Don't be unattractive
- iamdave 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878131 Also covered by The Atlantic.
- memset 8y agoI'm curious (genuinely) - is there evidence that this form of marketing is effective in terms of ROI? My initial reaction would be that people are savvy to the fact these are paid posts, but perhaps I'm just not the target market!
- overcast 8y agoI think you vastly underestimate how easily impressionable teens and young adults are. Why do you think companies still use celebrities? I sure as shit wouldn't buy anything because a Kardashian said so, but millions of young women would. Savvy to it or not, they just don't care if it's a paid promo.
- xenihn 8y agoI don't know if this satisfies your definition of evidence, but Tinder's execs have previously spoken about how it's what they used to form their initial userbase. I believe Yik Yak also pursued a similar strategy.
- frostburg 8y agoIt's probably strongly tied to what your product is. Influencers aren't a good way to sell CNC lathes.
- frostburg 8y agoIt's complex, I suspect that "influencers" are inferior to other kinds of marketing, but the reason isn't obviousness. There is evidence that this works even if you know exactly what's happening. I know people that plan this sort of campaigns and it works on them, too, when it's done by others. The idea is more to estabilish legitimacy for a brand (even just being -seen- often is useful for this) and create awareness that a product exists more than to directly sell it.
- stevenwoo 8y agoOne of memories of Psychology 101 is that people will retain brand preferences by the mid to late 20's for the better part of the rest of their adulthood so the earlier you can imprint your product on them, the better the opportunity for marketing to work. It's also why TV advertising can charge so much more for shows with a younger demographic (> 18).
- blunte 8y agoThings like this always remind me of the excellent Roger Waters album "Amused to Death". But on eliminating every other reason For our sad demise They logged the only explanation left This species has amused itself to death
- breakpointalpha 8y ago"Shills"