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Generative AI is everywhere now. You see it in content, campaigns, customer experiences, and even internal workflows. It promises speed, scale, and efficiency, but there’s a harder question sitting underneath all that progress; Do your audiences actually trust it?

Trust in the Age of AI: What Consumers Really Think About AI Generated Content

Today, PR teams aren’t just tracking media coverage and share of voice. They’re also measuring how their brand shows up in AI-generated answers, search summaries, and large language models (LLMs). This new LLM visibility layer is quickly becoming a critical part of PR performance.

15 Must-Have PR KPIs and How to Track Them

See how one platform can power every decision across PR, communications, and marketing.

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Blog Topics: Generative Engine Optimization, Media Intelligence, Media Relations, Social Listening, Consumer Intelligence, Influencer Marketing

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Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is transforming how brands show up in AI-powered search. Explore insights, strategies, and best practices to help your content rank and resonate across conversational engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot.

Explore insights and strategies for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to help your brand stay visible and discoverable in AI-powered search.

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Every day billions of conversations take place on social media: tweets, posts, comments, blogs, reviews, podcasts, and much more.
Learn how to use social listening to make sense of all of that data.

On our social listening category page, you find all our blogs covering topics around social listening and social media monitoring. Read more.

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Business Reputation Management: What does it take to add reputation management to your marketing strategy? More importantly, how do you keep your reputation sparkly and shiny? Here’s your all-access guide to online reputation management for the long term.

On our reputation management category page, you find all our blogs covering topics around business reputation management. Read more.

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From your brand's logo to your website, your social media presence to your customer support—these elements combined are what constitutes a brand in the minds of customers. But, there are thousands of other businesses that have a logo, website, social media presence, and website. So, how can you position your business on the market and make it stand out from the competition?
The key to success is branding & brand management!

On our brand management category page, you find all our blogs covering topics around brand management. Build your strategy and reach your goals!

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Competitive intelligence and the act of collecting competitive data can be seen as growth drivers for a company. Our guide will help you understand the concept of competitive intelligence (CI) by answering questions such as: What is the definition of competitive intelligence? How is competitive intelligence useful to organizations? What is the goal of competitive intelligence? And more.

On our competitive intelligence category page, you find all our blogs covering topics around competitive intelligence. Learn how to stay ahead.

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Let’s dive into the customer journey framework and how to optimize the process by creating a customer journey map and using metrics that matter when analyzing the customer journey.

On our customer journey category page, you find all our blogs covering topics around mapping and understanding the customer journey.

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What Is Data Analytics? [Beginner’s Guide 2023]
How can I grow my business? 
How do customers interact with my newly launched product?
How do I increase the productivity of my employees?
How do I know if my marketing efforts are working?
We have just two words for you...Data analytics!

On our data analytics category page, you find all our blogs covering topics around AI and data analytics. Technical and still easy to understand.

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Public relations and media relations can add impact to any marketing strategy. It’s an opportunity for brands to grow their reach beyond traditional sales messages. PR helps to shape the image you want people to have of your brand.
So, what is PR and how do you use it? This guide shows you everything you need to know to build a strong public relations foundation.

On our public relations (PR) category page, you find all our blogs covering public relations and communications topics. Step up your PR game.

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We all know exactly what the roles of sales or accounting are in a company, right? We might even have a slight idea of what the IT guys are doing.
But there is another business discipline, that plays a crucial role in organizations, even more so during the pandemic – internal communications!
But what exactly do we mean by that, what purpose does it serve and what steps can you take to ensure you and your employees will communicate effectively?

On our internal communications category page, you find all our blogs about internal comms topics. Learn about the intranet, internal newsletters, and more.

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As the internet has taken root in more areas of our lives — everything from entertainment to shopping to paying bills and more — traditional marketing is becoming less impactful. As any marketer knows, you need to focus on where your audience is if you want to reach them. Since the average person spends about seven hours a day online, it’s no surprise that content has maintained its hold on marketers.

Here's a closer look at what content marketing is and why it matters more than ever in our digital-first economy.

On our content marketing category page, you find blogs about content marketing topics. Learn about strategies, KPIs, tips, and more. Make your content king!

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The rise of the influencer marketing space – today a $10 billion industry, growing 50% per year – is one of the clearest examples of how social media is transforming traditional marketing. These days having a business website, presence on social, PR coverage, and your own content isn’t enough to compete.
We'll dive into the intricacies of influencer marketing to help ensure that you're equipped with the insights needed to be successful in this space.

On our influencer marketing category page, you find blogs about influencer marketing topics. Build your strategy, find influencers, and measure results.

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Have you just launched a new product or service that you want to get the word out about? Maybe you want to share with consumers why it is awesome and how it is so much better than the one your competitors offer.

Well, then, there is one thing you can't do without...Marketing!

On our marketing category page, you find blogs about marketing topics. Learn about all the different angles and types of marketing and improve your results.

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In this guide, we want to give you a peek into the definition of social media management, the daily schedule of a social media manager, social media platforms to promote your business, and the do’s & don’ts of social media management.
Are you ready to begin the journey of becoming a social media superstar?

On our social media management category page, you find blogs about social media management topics. Build and manage your online community.

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Building a following and using social media platforms to reach a wider audience requires a well-planned social media marketing strategy. In this guide, we’ll be looking at why social media marketing is so essential and how you can make it work for your business.

On our social media marketing category page, you find blogs about social media marketing topics. Learn how to get the highest paid social ROI!

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In the fast-evolving realm of digital marketing and public relations, utilizing the right tools is crucial for success. Our interdisciplinary category showcases all the pertinent tools for digital marketing & PR. These tools help in enhancing your online presence and effectively reaching target groups, whether through reputation management, influencer marketing, or social media management.

On our digital marketing and PR tools category page, you find all our blogs covering topics around mapping and understanding the customer journey.

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By: Chris Hackney, Meltwater’s Chief Product Officer 

For our second major product release of 2024, we’ve focused on adding enhancements that will make you feel like you’ve got superpowers! We’re doing that by giving you tools that empower you to achieve better results and save time. 

PR and marketing professionals face an ever-growing ocean of social, online, and legacy media data that could hold transformative insights for their businesses if only they could find a way to make sense of it all. Forrester estimates that 73% of all data within an enterprise is not used for analytics, which means there’s potentially a huge amount of intelligence and insight simply being left on the table by most businesses. 

At Meltwater, we think that by building tools that make it easier to analyze and surface insights that data holds, we can help our customers unlock greater potential for their businesses. 

For many of us, there never seem to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. We believe that saving time isn’t about cutting corners or compromising on the quality of your work but how thoughtful technology can help us get to our goals faster. 

In Meltwater’s Year-End Release, we’ve introduced product enhancements focused on saving you time. 

A key element of this is the new Platform Assistant, an AI tool that makes it easy to get all kinds of help simply by asking questions in natural language. Whether you want some details about your account (e.g., how to contact your Meltwater rep), you need help finding content or creating a pitch, or you have a question about your own activity within Meltwater, you just have to ask. 

Another example of time-saving enhancements is the AI Journalist Search we’ve added to our Media Relations solution. PR professionals can simply enter their campaign key messages, press releases, or pitch notes into the tool, and the AI will identify up to 200 media contacts best suited to your objectives. Instead of spending a lot of time searching and filtering lists of journalists manually, the whole task is completed in seconds.

We’ll soon launch a new Influencer Marketing AI Assistant to Klear, which allows you to interact with the platform in natural language, whether you’re trying to find new influencers, explore campaign performance metrics, or brainstorm ideas, the assistant is able to help whenever you need it. 

Social media managers can now view all of their posts on Meltwater Engage’s calendar, even if those posts were posted natively through the platforms, so you have a complete view of your content across all social channels. We’ve also added a new multi-tier approvals feature to Engage, making it much easier to ensure content is checked and signed off ahead of posting while avoiding any bottlenecks in the process. 

These are just a few examples of how we’re aiming to save you time with this release. 

Insight is at the very heart of Meltwater's mission. We strive to help our customers decipher the patterns and trends buried in the world’s data and use that insight for business advantage. 

But insights mean little if they only exist in reports or dashboards, and never inspire action. So another of the big themes we focused on for this release was how we can make it easier for you to put insights into action. 

One of the biggest new features is the Brand Analytics Tab, which automatically collates all of the key metrics around your brand performance alongside AI-generated summaries of relevant news and social media narratives. This provides an easy-to-digest real-time snapshot of your brand health, always up-to-date, and created automatically in moments.

We’ve also introduced a new feature that makes sharing Meltwater insights much more engaging and powerful. Instead of exporting reports and dashboards as static PDF files, you can now share interactive reports with stakeholders so that they can explore the data and drill down into details, even without their own Meltwater login. 

A big part of this is our continued investment in high-quality data, which makes it easier to uncover insights and adds credibility to your reports when you share them with stakeholders. An example of this is our  Renewed partnership with Reddit, securing long-term access to the platform’s full firehose of authentic, unfiltered consumer discussions for our customers. 

Whether it’s with customers, influencers, journalists, or internal stakeholders, the ability to forge strong relationships helps us to achieve our objectives more easily. So, the third major goal of this product release has been to give you the tools to nurture the relationships that matter to your business. 

In Klear, we’ve made a simple but powerful improvement that shows you the full conversation history between your business and any influencer through the unified inbox. This means you instantly have access to the complete background context whenever you need to interact with that person, allowing for more authentic conversations based on their prior interactions with your brand instead of simply sending them a generic outreach email. 

For PR, you now have the option to receive alerts when a media contact’s profile is updated with new details, such as when they change jobs, for example. This makes it easy to keep up to date with what’s happening with your target media, helping you to engage with them more effectively. 

It’s also now possible to view the open rates of your outreach email campaigns, down to the granular level of individual contacts, whereas before, it was only possible to view the rates of an entire media list. So now you can easily identify which journalists are most engaged with your campaign and focus on them, as well as adjust your messaging for those who are not yet engaged. 

In this post I’ve given you a taste of the biggest improvements in the 2024 Year-End Release, and explained our strategy behind this update. To get a more detailed view of what’s been added, visit the product update page.

There’s plenty more to come. This is an exciting period of development for Meltwater as we continue to harness the power of AI in our platform, and build on our industry-leading partnership with Microsoft Copilot.

Unlock a More Powerful You, with Meltwater’s 2024 Year-End Release

Travel influencers inspire wanderlust in the common traveler. They reveal unseen places, share experiences, and bring attention to destinations to encourage visitors. For businesses that rely on tourism, creating an influencer marketing strategy with specialized travel influencers can help you get more bookings, more visibility, and even the potential to go viral.

Finding influencers to promote your brand or business is the first step. Let’s explore the top eight travel influencers and why it pays to work with social media stars with built-in audiences.

Collaborating with Travel Influencers: Best Practices for Brands 

Finding Travel Influencers with Meltwater

A travel influencer is someone who has a sizable social media following and frequently posts content related to travel and tourism. Most importantly, they have audiences who trust their content to make their traveling or purchasing decisions.

Many travel influencers have followings of 100K or more and make a living posting travel-related content. They partner with cities, hotels, restaurants, attractions, and other tourism-dependent places. Through this content, influencers weave stories of people and places while bringing their followers along for the journey.

For businesses that thrive on tourism, travel influencers are a key part of their sustained success. Influencers play an important role in inspiring travel. They highlight unique places and share them with the masses, which can help bring in new traffic and customers for life.

Unlike traditional advertising that often feels scripted, these influencers offer relatable experiences and honest reviews that resonate with their followers. Their collection of content—from stunning photos to first-hand stories—serves as a digital treasure map, guiding us through hidden gems we might never discover on our own.

Travel flourishes through shared experiences. As travel costs grow higher, travelers want to ensure they’re getting their money’s worth. Many people turn to the internet to learn more about a place they’ve never visited to see if it’s likely to be worth the expense. With the help of travel influencers, businesses can stand out to new audiences, attract more customers, and create buzz around their brands.

TIP: Don't miss our other blogs featuring top influencers across industries and platforms, including technology, gaming, music, Twitch, and more.

If you’re looking for travel influencers, our influencer marketing platform is a great place to start. 

Meltwater lets you search through a growing database of influencers based on your criteria. You can filter by industry (such as travel), audience size, social media channel, and other options to find the best-fit influencers for your goals.

We’ve done some of the hard work already by finding eight of the best travel influencers.

Russian photographer Murad Osmann turned travel photography into a viral art form. You may have seen his iconic “Follow Me” series on social media, where he captures stunning landscapes from around the world while his girlfriend, Natalia Zakharova, leads him through enchanting destinations.

He’s been rated as one of the top travel influencers by Forbes and has garnered more than 3.2 million followers on Instagram. His work not only showcases beautiful places but also highlights the magic of adventure and companionship.

Pedro & Pauli (82 Influencer Score + Travel Expert Badge)

Travel couple Pedro and Pauli are among the top Instagram travel influencers, with highlights from their global travels. They tell stories through their content and feature some of the world’s most beautiful hotels and bucket list destinations.

With over 1,900 posts and 111K followers on Instagram, the pair continue to inspire their followers to see the world with the one you love.

Kiersten Rich aka The Blonde Abroad (90 Influencer Score)

Travel blogger and social media travel influencer Kiersten Rich has been to 75 countries and doesn’t hold back about sharing her adventures. Her photos have captured the attention of more than 500K followers on Instagram as she highlights the glamorous side of travel.

She has also mastered the art of family travel with a baby and shares tips and insights on those experiences. 

Alex Strohl (97 Influencer Score + Photography Expert Badge)

One of the top travel influencers on Instagram, Alex Strohl shares his travels with nearly 2 million fans. From cold, remote locations to underwater scenes, Alex aims to show his followers places they’ve never seen before.

In addition to travel, Alex is also an accomplished photographer. He combines his two passions to become one of the most famous travel influencers on social media and treats every trip as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Drew Binsky (89 Influencer Score + Travel Expert Badge)

Drew Binsky is the man who has visited every country in the world — and is eager to share his experiences with more than 1.1 million followers on Instagram. He’s also an active YouTuber, where he highlights the interesting stories of people he’s met along the journey.

Drew’s unique brand of storytelling alongside the imagery of beautiful and offbeat places he’s been makes him a one-of-a-kind travel influencer. And of course, he hasn’t neglected to reveal some hidden gems right here in the USA.

Samuel & Audrey (74 Influencer Score +Travel Expert Badge)

Another traveling couple, Samuel & Audrey are among the top Instagram travel influencers with more than 51.5K followers. Also known as That Backpacker, the duo focus on video content as they explore the world.

Canada, Argentina, and the great outdoors are key themes on their Instagram page. They’ve shared nearly 1,000 posts of their adventures with their followers, which include a mix of travel tips and personal experiences.

Colleen Roden (86 Influencer Score + Lifestyle Expert Badge)

Colleen travels and lets her 364K Instagram followers know about it. With most of her destinations based in the U.S., she’s also taken fans on digital trips to the Caribbean.

Her IG content is a mix of wanderlust, family life, pets, and lifestyle posts. She’s also not shy about sharing food pics, fashion, or the experiences she enjoys while she travels, including hot air balloons and rooftop igloos.

Digital nomad Stefano Cicchini is a leading travel influencer on Instagram, with 331K followers. He shares his journeys to international destinations, capturing everything from beaches to bustling markets.

In addition to his work as a travel influencer, Stefano collaborates with luxury brands like Mercedes-Benz. He’s equally passionate about food, which he features prominently on both his social media and blog.

Meltwater makes it easy to find influencers for your respective industry or niche. Click here and fill out the form below to see it in action!

Whether you’re working with the top Instagram influencers or on the hunt for a micro-influencer, you need to know how to collaborate with them. Good communication, clear goals, and win/win situations will help your efforts go further.

With this in mind, let’s look at some best practices to follow to make travel influencer collabs a success.

Top travel Instagram influencers can be standalone campaigns or part of a much larger influencer marketing strategy. Get clear on how your collaboration fits into your overall marketing goals.

For example, are you inviting several influencers to the launch of your new hotel or attraction? Do you want one influencer to cover a specific event? 

Whatever your goals, make sure your influencer partners understand what you want to achieve so they can do their best work.

Influencer collaborations should never be one-sided. You will need to offer something in return. 

In some cases, this might be a trade-for-content. You offer an experience for free (e.g., hotel stay, meal, visit to your attraction, etc.) and the influencer will create content based on their experience.

Or, if you’re working with well-known travel influencers on Instagram, you may need to offer additional compensation. Influencers rates will vary, based on audience size and the complexity of the request.

When you can create win/win partnerships, you’ll have a much better chance of reaching your goals and building valuable relationships.

You can outline the specifics of each influencer collaboration with our influencer proposal template. This template acts as a detailed brief to keep you and your travel social media influencers on the same page. 

Here, you can specify important things like:

A template prevents you from having to reinvent the wheel with every new campaign and partnership.

TIP: Learn more best practices for beefing up your influencer marketing strategy when you download our free Ultimate Guide to Influencer Marketing.

No matter your influencer marketing goals, Meltwater’s influencer marketing platform can help you craft a winning strategy from start to finish. Meltwater helps you find travel influencers on Instagram and other social media channels, vet them according to your brand goals, and connect with them to create powerful travel-related campaigns. 

You can also track campaign performance from the same interface, allowing you to see the impact each influencer has on your brand.

Learn more when you request a demo by filling out the form below!

Top 8 Travel Influencers

Tech has become an essential part of our everyday lives, and people expect the tools and products they use to function seamlessly. In an industry where credibility is paramount, tech influencers play a critical role.

What is influence, you ask? We define influence as the ability to sway people’s decisions and opinions. A person who has influence typically also has expertise, along with a heaping side of creativity and charisma that other people relate to. They have a unique ability to connect with others authentically, which makes them a trustworthy source of information.

The tech industry is massive and growing every day. While this is a good thing for tech companies, the sheer size of the market makes it harder for companies to differentiate themselves. Highly influential people can help tech companies by showcasing their products, talking about their brand, and putting them in front of their target audience.

Curious to know which tech influencers to work with and how they can help you step up your influencer marketing strategy? Read on to see our top tech creators and tips for finding and working with them.

How to Identify the Best Tech Influencers

Best Practices for Collaborating with Tech Influencers

Finding the Top Tech Influencers with Klear

A tech influencer is someone who shares more than just the latest gadget reviews on Instagram or X. They serve as a bridge between the tech industry and its customers.

Tech creators use their expertise and personality to build connections with others. They do this via social media, blogs, or other online channels. Their content helps others learn about new brands and companies, see how products, services, or software work, and make informed buying decisions.

The key is the ability to create relatable content. Tech influencers excel in building communities around their personal brand, sparking conversations and engagement from their audience. They strike a strong balance of being a knowledgeable powerhouse and an approachable friend — and brands can leverage this balance to their own benefit.

Our influencer marketing platform helps brands find influencers related to their niche and audience, including technology influencers. We’ve done the heavy lifting of finding the best tech influencers based on Klear score, which looks at audience size, engagement rates, authenticity, and other essential metrics.

Want to see how Klear could help you scale your influencer marketing? Click here and fill out the form below for a personalized demo!

With nearly 3 million followers on Instagram, Lewis Hilsenteger is one of the biggest tech influencers. He built his brand around the “unboxing” trend. But rather than just opening packages, he strips technology products to their bare bones and talks about what’s inside.

Lewis transforms the often dry realm of gadget reviews into an engaging experience that feels more like catching up with a friend than watching a product demo. He tells stories about the gadgets he showcases and creates a sense of wonder and excitement with his content.

Macro influencer Judner Aura has 3.25 million YouTube subscribers and nearly 300K followers on Instagram. He uses his channels to review technology, particularly mobile devices and accessories. You might also know him by the moniker “UrAvgConsumer.”

He’s the type of creator who doesn’t just review gadgets; he explores how they fit into our daily lives, making tech feel accessible rather than overwhelming. His style is a mix of humor and authenticity, which draws in viewers and makes his content enjoyable to watch.

YouTuber Marques Brownlee (also known as MKBHD) has an impressive 19.2 million subscribers who love his consumer tech channel. His content spans the full spectrum of retro tech and modern-day favorites, which caters to a broad tech audience.

He’s created content for popular brands and products like the all-electric VW Bus, Apple, Beats by Dre, and Samsung. He also touches on hot-button and niche topics like AI, 3D printing, and even golf tech.

Technology influencers aren’t always individuals. Case in point: Linus Tech Tips, a popular YouTube channel with more than 16 million subscribers, is driven by a team of “professionally curious” tech experts.

The team specializes in consumer tech and aims to educate and entertain with content. They explore a wide range of products and ways to use them, from upgrading computer components to deciding whether to buy newly released tech gadgets.

Sara Dietschy is one of the top tech influencers on YouTube and Instagram, with nearly a million subscribers. She releases multiple videos each week, blending tech insights with creativity and entrepreneurship.

The new mom uses her vibrant personality to highlight tech reviews and lifestyle vlogs on her channel. She also has a natural ability to break down complex topics into insights that are easy to digest and fun to listen to. 

A gaming influencer and technology enthusiast, Austin Evans is among the best tech influencers because of his natural affinity for all things tech. He’s amassed a following of more than 5 million YouTube subscribers and nearly 500K Instagram fans. 

Austin aims to help others make sound buying decisions by reviewing new gadgets and exploring unique tech products. From buying technology from Wish to relying on AI product recommendations on Amazon, nothing is off limits.

SuperSaf (89 Klear Score + Tech Expert badge)

British YouTuber SuperSaf is one of the most popular tech review channels on YouTube. Hosted by Safwan AhmedMia, his content pulls back the curtain on some of the most talked-about consumer tech.

SuperSaf talks a lot about smartphones, offering in-depth reviews and side-by-side comparisons of the latest models. He has also collaborated with other trusted tech creators, including MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips.

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober has become a recognizable name and face in the tech world. He uses his YouTube channel, which has more than 58.4 million subscribers, to talk about all things science, gadgets, and tech in a user-friendly manner.

He’s earned the approval of adults and kids alike, especially with his monthly toy builds via his company CrunchLabs. His commitment to the world of science has made him one of the biggest tech influencers in the media. It also helps that viewers can always expect to see cool things like lasers, robots, and explosions in his content.

TIP: Don't miss our other blogs listing the top influencers across multiple industries and platforms, including music, gaming, Twitch, and more!

Whether you want to find the best tech influencers on Instagram or use creators to promote your products on YouTube, it all starts with knowing who to look for. While this will vary according to your business and goals, these basic tips can help you spot the best tech influencers in the wild.

Do a search on the social platforms where you want to promote your brand, such as Instagram, YouTube, or X. Search for hashtags related to your product or brand, such as #AI or #iPhone16, then see who’s creating content using those hashtags.

You can also use search features to find relevant content. For example, on YouTube, you can search for “iPhone 16 Pro Review” and see who’s creating content. This will help you create a shortlist of candidates that you can explore further.

Set up Google Alerts (a free tool) to track tech-related news in the media. For example, if you are creating an AI product, you might set up an alert to track all news stories related to AI (or something more specific). 

As you receive email alerts, you can check out the news coverage for yourself. See who’s writing the articles, where they’re being posted, and which experts are quoted in them.

Podcasts often feature tech influencers and other figures in the industry. Make a list of tech podcasts, then check out who is guest speaking on them to find potential influencers.

Influencer marketing platforms remove much of the guesswork when searching for influencers. You can use advanced search tools to filter results based on channel, audience size, level of influence (Klear score), and other criteria. 

As you start reaching out to tech influencers, there are a few things to keep in mind that will increase your chances of a successful collaboration. We suggest doing the following:

Do your homework. Make sure the influencer’s style, content, and audience match your brand.

Be clear and upfront about your goals. Whether it’s brand awareness, product reviews, or driving sales, let the influencer know exactly what you want to achieve.

Allow creative freedom. Influencers know what their audience likes, so let them do their best work.

Offer value in return. Whether it's through payment, free products, or experiences, give them something worth their time.

Share the content. Once the influencer posts, amplify it by sharing it on your social media or website to get more exposure.

TIP: Learn more about how you can work with influencers of all kinds in our Ultimate Guide to Influencer Marketing.

Meltwater's Influencer Marketing platform gives you a direct connection to influencers in the tech industry. Our platform gives you end-to-end influencer management, from finding influencers that match your criteria to communication and performance tracking. 

Centralize your influencer marketing efforts and see how you’re creating ROI and value with every collaboration. 

Top 8 Tech Influencers

The year is nearing its end. The holidays are around the corner - and so are Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As the biggest retail weekend on the calendar, it’s important to have the necessary plans in place to cater to customers and succeed in sales.

In this blog, we'll look at some Black Friday basics and discuss strategies on how to prepare for Black Friday properly and  for companies to make more sales:

How To Prepare for Black Friday in Your Marketing

How To Use Technology and Tools To Prepare for Black Friday

How To Prepare for Black Friday in Your Branding

How To Prepare Your Website for Black Friday Traffic

Tip: Also take a look at our Black Friday Report: Black Friday by the Numbers

Black Friday is a popular shopping event that takes place on the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the fourth Thursday of November. It is often regarded as the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is characterized by significant discounts, special sales, and promotions offered by retailers, both in physical stores and online.

Black Friday deals typically include deep discounts on a wide range of products, from electronics and appliances to clothing, toys, and more. Many people camp out in front of stores, often for hours or even days in advance, to be among the first to take advantage of these deals. In recent years, online shopping has become increasingly popular on Black Friday, with many retailers offering their discounts and promotions on their websites, and this has led to the rise of "Cyber Monday," the Monday following Black Friday, which focuses on online sales.

Black Friday has also extended beyond the United States and is now observed in many other countries, although the specific date and traditions may vary. The concept of major shopping events, with deep discounts, has become a global phenomenon in the retail industry.

There are several theories around the origin of Black Friday, some of which can be found here. The leading theory is that it came from the 1950s, when shoppers and tourists would flood the city of Philadelphia the day after Thanksgiving to watch the Army-Navy football game. The crowds resulted in chaos around the city, but retailer sales spiked with the increase in foot traffic.

Whatever the true origin, Black Friday now holds enormous weight in its potential to make or break not only a retailer’s November but also their year. Both brick-and-mortar and click-and-order stores benefit immensely from annual Black Friday sales, making an average of 3.6x in sales when compared to any other day in the month.

But enough of the basics - let's jump into some Black Friday strategies:

The Meltwater Blog

Unlock a More Powerful You, with Meltwater’s 2024 Year-End Release

Top 8 Travel Influencers

Top 8 Tech Influencers

How To Prepare for Black Friday To Generate More Sales

Exploring Tipping Culture: Insights from Social Media

Digital 2024 October Global Statshot Report

What Consumers Think About Self-Checkout

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