by Mattr | Jan 28, 2016 | news
Here at Mattr, 2016 has already been an exciting year! Some of our most anticipated Influencer Marketing features have been added in January, like the ability to activate influencers,with more coming the next couple of months! Here’s a breakdown of what you will now see in the app. Activate Influencers for a Campaign Users now have the ability to create an influencer campaign through Virtual Agent. Search through our pool of Featured Influencers, select and monitor influencers based on your unique campaign goals, and then activate those influencers, instantly, for campaigns. Set campaign details, like specific hashtags to be used by influencers and your campaign budget. Track Campaign Engagement View campaign stats for each influencer once the campaign goes live, including number of impressions and engagement (shares, likes, etc). Track how much you are spending on your campaign and how many days the campaign has been active. Exhaust your campaign once your budget has been met- or if the campaign goes viral, increase your budget! Stay tuned for more feature updates, coming...
by Mattr | Jan 12, 2016 | news
Driverless cars, bitcoin, Airbnb – technology, alongside innovative business models, have been changing the way we’ve done things for decades. Advertising is a market that feels destined for a major disruption. We’ve seen that millennials and Gen Z consumers won’t go for digital and, even with more creative content and new platforms, clickthrough rates have remained dismal. Think about it: what else would you buy that has a success rate of less than one out of a thousand? That’s a failure rate, not a success rate! Marketers know we need to evolve the model of getting a brand’s message to the consumer and there will be some steady progress for Influencer Marketing in 2016, but we’ll be running through deep sand for a while. Millennials and Gen Z will continue to frustrate marketers Past precedence has shown that the marketing methods that work today won’t resonate with those in the prime buying generation. For example, Baby Boomers moved from direct mail to telemarketing. Generation X moved from telemarketing to email marketing. Now millennials are moving from social media to influencer marketing. Gen Z, however, will demand complete transparency in marketing efforts, leading to a decrease in paid influencer marketing and a rise in open and honest influencer marketing, or brand advocacy. Marketers will get budget for advocacy pilot projects Consumers are longing for more personalized interactions with their favored brands beyond complaints. Millennials, in particular, will advocate for brands they love. To cultivate these loyalists, marketers want to rely heavily on technology to gain insight into their behaviors and desires and participate in content creation, crowdsourcing and even social activism. But...
