influencer marketing – Veronica Stenberg

3 key insights for Youtube and how to use them

Veronica — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:46:44 +0000

Youtube has become such a huge an important platform to be on. Here are three insights from Think With Google with a note on how to use these insights, in your own work with modern marketing.

Comment: Youtube is not just for the gamers, vloggers and make-up tutorials, however there is a large community of these types of personalities and channels out there. Try to put your biases aside and see the potential for the “older” target audiences. Video is equally if not more so, relevant and useful for them.

Comment: There is a new celebrity in town and that can well be the girl next door. Youtubers are in many cases more authentic and relatable then huge stars and there is no question about the new commercial power these Youtubers have. So next time you are launching a new product – how can you leverage influencers on youtube?

Comment: A behaviour that is now very common and is a phase that should be included in your marketing and communications strategy is the research phase. Recommendations, tutorials and reviews are imperative to your product success. So think about how to leverage Youtube when it comes to your products in your marketing efforts. Working purely with sponsorships of influencers will get you so far, think a step further – what magazines got Youtube channels? what videos can you make yourself and who do you need to get behind your product to get it out there.

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5 possibilities with youtube for your brand

Veronica — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 04:33:44 +0000

Youtube is now the second largest search engine in the world and it’s home to a wealth of information about any topic, and equally as much content in the forms of vlogs documenting the modern humans lifestyle, trends and struggles.

How can you leverage this for your company and brand? Here are 5 quick ideas:

1. Create videos that compliment your brand, products and ethos. Either you can be useful and make instructional videos or videos showcasing your products in an inspirational way. Or why not make your own channel creating your own show on a topic that is relevant for your target audience? If you are unsure, go out there and do your research.

2. If you don’t want to create your own videos you can be known for showcasing your expertise in an area by curating and crafting useful playlist with videos on various topics. Make sure to include vital keywords in the titles of the playlist to ensure they come up in the search results.

3. You can work with vloggers to get your product out there, either it be by pitching your products for video tutorials or by working with inviting Youtube influencers from famous channels to your own.

4. For marketing and placing ads or commercials, there is plenty of opportunity on Youtube to find the right type of channels within a specific niches, to really find and reach your target audience.

5. Monitor and comment on channels and videos that covers topics close to your product and/or market and help people, be useful, give advice and answer to questions and comments on other channels videos.

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5 things to think about when working with influencers

Veronica — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:18:27 +0000

Working with influencers and influencer marketing has grown exponentially throughout the last few years. It’s becoming big business and one of the reasons are because millennials are more likely to buy from a Youtuber, using/endorsing a product then a celebrity or mega-star.

Working with influencers, setting a scope for the partnership, expectations and defining the work is one way to approach this, so you are both are on the same page, as you are entering a business relationship with each other.

But before you get down to just business, get clear on your KPI’s for the partnership and work, so you know how you can evaluate the activities and content the influencer and/or you create together.

As I work on the other side of this, receiving quite a few queries from companies for my vegan recipe lifestyle website, large and small, I have put together this list as I think it’s helpful when initiating a new partnership within this field.

These are 5 key areas to think about when working with influencers

Keywords: not to many and if applicable specific to this influencer and the subject they may create content about, in relation to your service, that you want to rank high on for in organic search and/or want to associated with. (to include in youtube description box, links, theri website and wherever else it makes sense)

Social media: how many posts, tweets etc in social media are you getting. How will the influencer you are working with promote the content they are creating around your product or the specific endorsement? and for how long?

Text: scope of text (characters) and links within the text to you.

Content: such as podcasts, video, photography, texts. What content is the influencer creating? An in terms in photos: how many and are you able to use their imagery in return to highlight the write up in your channels. What is your agreement? and how will the influencer be credited? and paid?

Their following and reach: the bigger the followers the influencer has amassed in their channels are not necessary the better in terms of generating ROI from a influencer partnership.

Large influencers may have many collaborations going on as well as they may post quite a lot. So one downside are the actual views of your product in their feed and how your brand and product will be impacted by other promotions that the specific influencer is doing within the same time period. Then you have costs, the bigger the influencer the higher the price. One idea is therefore to look for smaller, more niche influences more relevant to your target audience, brand or product. Recent reports states that micro-influencers bring better ROI for your business.

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