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Influence

By: Sara McCorquodale
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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Summary

Digital influencing is one of the most exciting and disruptive new industries, forecast to be worth over £10bn 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, analyses its problems and forecasts its future. A compelling and deeply insightful book, this will be a must-listen for anyone whose business success is dependent on prospering online. Listeners 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. 

All of this is presented alongside take-aways that will instantly improve listeners' own work in the digital space. In addition, thanks to Sara's independent analysis of influencer media and marketing, they 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.

©2019 Sara McCorquodale (P)2020 W F Howes

Critic reviews

"It's the wild west out there. This book is your sheriff." (The Sunday Times)

"In a nutshell, Sara's like a human Google Translate, but for translating the world of Google." (Evening Standard)

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An excellent, in depth look at Influencers

I downloaded this as part of the reading list for my college course. It looks at the history and development of online influencers across social media platforms.

This is the 2019 version but I assume the later version is revised to reflect 2020 and the rise of TikTok. Still, hugely informative and an invaluable reference.

It would have been easy to ruin with bad narration but hats off to the narrator for an excellent and compelling performance.

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