At a time when brand building and audience engagement is absolutely key, influencer marketing is giving brands an essential means to reach and engage audiences in ways which are meaningful and relevant to them, fulfilling their need for connection, and also building up a brand’s position as we start to enter a new phase. In this report, we leverage custom research on influencer marketing alongside existing research on the coronavirus to dig into the impact the outbreak has had on consumers’ behaviours, the effect on influencer marketing and the consumer-creator relationship, how purchase behaviours are changing, and how brands can successfully work with creators moving forward.
Explore the critical importance of Relevance in driving consumer behaviour and purchase intent, and the crucial role that creators play in increasing Relevance for brands. While researching for our most recent report on the role that emotion plays in creator-led campaigns, we noticed the pivotal role that a little-discussed topic was having on driving consumer action: Relevance.