Influence: How Social Media Influencers Are Shaping Our Digital Future, Hardcover/Sara McCorquodale

Description A detailed review of what businesses need to know about influencer strategies, social media and how digital communication works. Digital influencing is one of the most exciting and disruptive new industries, forecast to be worth billions by 2020, but those charged with making this an effective part of their digital strategy rarely understand how this emergent industry works. When it comes to online growth, digital influencers are now consistently outperforming traditional media and brand advertising, even if much of what they do remains a mystery to many people. Sara McCorquodale is the UK's leading authority on the influencer space, and this new book demystifies exactly how digital influence works, interrogates the phenomenon, analyzes its problems, and forecasts its future. A compelling and deeply insightful book, this will be a must-read for anyone whose business success is dependent on prospering online. In Influence , readers will gain a foundation of knowledge into how and why digital communication has become so dominated by influencers, as well as gaining invaluable, never-before-heard insights from the influencers themselves. They will understand how digital trends emerge, the building blocks that make bloggers, vloggers and instagrammers so compelling, and why the context in which influencer marketing emerged is so closely linked to its ongoing success. Thanks to Sara's independent analysis of influencer media and marketing, readers will finish the book with a clear understanding as to the problems now faced by businesses and brands around the world, and how such issues can be identified, tackled and overcome. About the Author Sara McCorquodale is CEO and founder of influencer intelligence and digital trends platform, CORQ. Prior to launching the business in 2017, she spent 12 years as a journalist, starting in local news before working on the launch of Mail Online and later moving to Conde Nast to develop Tatler's online presence as its first ever digital editor. From there, she headed up Huffington Post Style UK and its sister lifestyle platform MyDaily after which she led global B2C content at trend forecasting agency WGSN as senior editor of special projects. She has been working on influencer campaigns and projects since 2012, consulted on this and the world of digital for many brands including Chanel, Estee Lauder and Net-A-Porter and written for The Guardian and the BBC.