Tag: influence

• Sun, Cigars, and Sexism: How Spain’s Marbella Became a Hotspot for ‘Manosphere’ Influencers | OCCRP

  April 13, 2026

  The city on the Costa del Sol has become a stomping ground for male influencers and entrepreneurial friends of Andrew Tate. https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/sun-cigars-and-sexism-how-spains-marbella-became-a-hotspot-for-manosphere-influencers more ›

• Polymarket Partners With Kaito to Launch Attention Markets

  February 10, 2026

  Polymarket and Kaito AI are launching prediction markets based on social media mindshare and sentiment data across X, TikTok, and YouTube. https://www.bankless.com/read/news/polymarket-partners-with-kaito-to-launch-attention-markets more ›

• You are not immune to shopaganda | The Verge

  December 13, 2025

  Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. These are the stories of credit card debt and piles of mass-produced clutter. https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/836456/influencers-tiktok-debt-shopaganda more ›

• Sun, Cigars, and Sexism: How Spain’s Marbella Became a Hotspot for ‘Manosphere’ Influencers | OCCRP

  November 28, 2025

  The city on the Costa del Sol has become a stomping ground for male influencers and entrepreneurial friends of Andrew Tate. Through tracking social media connections, business ventures, and public… more ›

• What we might become: a topology of sharing

  July 10, 2025

  This series of articles explores organisation-external communications, how to engage the world out there to impact how your peers and colleagues think and act, and how this process shapes our… more ›

• The NYT Op-Ed I Just Took A Kill Fee For.

  February 12, 2023

  Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The New York Times commissioned me to write an Op-Ed about influencers. I really tried to get behind it. After… more ›

• The overworked humans behind China’s virtual influencers

  August 8, 2022

  Over the past decade, entertainment companies in China and Japan have increasingly invested in developing virtual talent: pop stars that appear on stage via hologram, animated personalities who livestream themselves playing games and… more ›

• KOLs Are Dead. Long Live the Virtual Influencer

  August 8, 2022

  Luxury brands have long used influencers or key opinion leaders (KOLs) to get into the hearts, minds, and ultimately digital wallets of young Chinese consumers. Influencers, particularly those who enjoy… more ›

• Meta Hires ‘Nope’ Star Keke Palmer to Try to Explain the Metaverse

  August 6, 2022

  Keke Palmer’s next role after starring in Jordan Peele’s sci-fi/Western horror film “Nope”: Hosting Meta’s “Are We There Yet?” — a video series hyping the “boundless possibilities” of the tech… more ›

• Cheatsheet: What you need to know about influencer fraud

  August 6, 2022

  Influencer marketing fraud is a growing problem in an industry valued at over $1 billion. Influencers — essentially social media stars with large followings — are attractive to marketers for the… more ›