Starbucks is reportedly outsourcing its marketing and ad production to micro-influencers on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

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        "excerpt": "there are agencies that contract out those work to 100s of influencers and wait for one to go viral",
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        "excerpt": "Couple of things...\n\n Brand is about consistency. If you're outsourcing 10 different reels/carousels out to 4 different influencers, you're going to get a patchwork of content back. Difficult to build a brand on inconsistency. Imagine if it was a crap shoot what your burger tastes like every time you go to McDonald's - the business model doesn't work.\n\n Low pay = low quality. If you want thought-t",
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      "[post] I noticed more and more corporations outsourcing their marketing and ad production to micro influencers? For example, on TikTok, Reddit, instagram and even Youtube, I see influencers 20-50k followers creating, filming, editing, and posting ads for large corporations like Claude, OpenAI, Starbucks, Tim Hortons, McDonald’s, ALO, etc.",
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