| | | | | First Things First | | June 26, 2020 | By Jess Zafarris |
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| Influencer-Led Apparel Brands Seemed Like the Future, but Execution Is Proving Complicated | |
Successful influencers fronting apparel brands seems like a logical next step, but running a clothing line is no easy task, and it can be difficult to achieve major monetary success in today's rocky retail landscape. The reward, influencers are finding, may not be worth the effort, especially if they already earn good money on content creation. Julia Berolzheimer, for example, decided to end her successful Gal Meets Glam Collection after complications and disagreements with wholesale partner Maggy London. When a brand invests in a collection, it expects a return on its investment, which means the influencer doesn't call the shots anymore. Inside the rift: Learn how the divergence between a brand's goals and an influencer's can ultimately drive them apart, plus other challenges these influencers face. | |
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| News & Updates from NewFronts | |
- According to Hulu's Julie DeTraglia, consumers consider these four key points when deciding whether to subscribe to another OTT offering: content, user experience, connection to the content and the brand, and price.
- With a rise in YouTube viewership on connected TVs, the company talked up a feature allowing marketers to buy only on television screens.
- More than half of young and middle-aged viewers don’t see any difference between connected TV and cable or satellite TV, according to a poll by Toluna and Tremor Video. In other words, they simply call whatever they’re watching on their big screens “TV.”
- TikTok has released TikTok for Business for its advertiser offerings. The company's presentation emphasized that brands need to understand the platform before running ads, hence its core slogan: "Don’t make ads, make TikToks."
- Xandr presented findings from a survey of video buyers showing that only half of all media-buying teams are truly converged once marketing campaigns move beyond the planning phase. CRO Jason Brown said the challenges of converged buying are "more organizational than they are individual."
- KitchenAid and Digitas revealed “A Woman’s Place,” an upcoming documentary that follows three female chefs trying to make it in a male-dominated industry.
- Quantcast, which has traditionally provided analytics service to publishers, is now extending them to marketers, who can run queries about audience types, viewership habits and purchase history.
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| | In what's been called a "diversity revolution," brands and organizations are continuing to shed elements of their past that are still rooted in problematic racial stereotypes. Most notable in today's news were two decisions from the entertainment world. The Dixie Chicks elected to drop the "Dixie" portion of their name, making them just "The Chicks." The country music group did so quietly and without any official announcement, simply posting a statement on their website saying, “We want to meet this moment.” Meanwhile, Disney Parks' Splash Mountain is getting a long-overdue overhaul. The ride's story is currently based on The Song of the South, a movie that the company has long disavowed due to its setting in the Reconstruction Era South and its many slavery-era stereotypes. The "completely reimagined" ride will instead be themed after The Princess and the Frog, which features a Black heroine who is also an entrepreneur. | |
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