The FTC’s influencer marketing rules have tightened considerably over the past few years, and the brands and agencies still treating disclosure as optional are taking on real legal and reputational risk. The core requirement is straightforward: any material connection between a brand and an influencer must be clearly disclosed to audiences, in plain language, every…
The FTC’s influencer marketing rules are not new, but enforcement is getting sharper and the consequences for non-compliance are real. Brands and creators who treat disclosure as optional are operating on borrowed time, and recent FTC actions make clear that the agency is watching the space more closely than ever. The core requirement is straightforward:…
Influencer marketing platforms are software tools that help brands find creators, manage campaigns, track performance, and handle payments, all from a single interface. The most widely used include AspireIQ, Grin, Traackr, Upfluence, Later, and Creatoriq, each with different strengths depending on whether you are running a handful of high-value partnerships or scaling across hundreds of…
An influencer marketing specialist in the United States is a marketing professional responsible for identifying, vetting, contracting, and managing relationships with content creators to deliver brand campaigns across social platforms. The role sits at the intersection of media buying, talent management, and creative strategy, and it has matured considerably from its early days of gifting…
Influencer marketing platforms are software tools that help brands find creators, manage campaigns, track performance, and handle payments, all from a single interface. The most widely used include AspireIQ, Grin, Traackr, Later, and Upfluence, each built for different use cases and budget levels. Choosing the right one depends less on feature lists and more on…
An influencer marketing specialist in the United States manages the end-to-end process of identifying, contracting, briefing, and measuring influencer partnerships on behalf of a brand or agency. The role sits at the intersection of relationship management, content strategy, and performance analysis, and it has matured considerably from the early days of gifting products to bloggers…
The ASA’s influencer marketing rules are clear: paid content must be labelled as an ad, upfront, before the audience engages with it. No exceptions for affiliate links, gifted products, or long-standing brand relationships. If there is a commercial arrangement, it must be disclosed. That is the regulatory baseline in the UK, and the ASA has…
The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has made influencer marketing compliance one of its clearest enforcement priorities in recent years. If a post is paid for, gifted, or incentivised in any way, it must be labelled as an ad, without exception, without ambiguity, and without burying the disclosure in a wall of hashtags. That sounds simple….
Technology and B2B B2B influencer marketing is the fastest-growing segment of the discipline, and it looks almost nothing like its consumer counterpart. In B2B, the most effective “influencers” are often industry practitioners with relatively modest social followings but significant professional credibility. A CTO with 15,000 LinkedIn followers who is genuinely respected in their field will…
Top influencers are not simply the accounts with the largest followings. They are the creators whose audiences trust them enough to act, whose content performs consistently, and whose commercial partnerships do not erode that trust the moment a brand enters the picture. Those three things together are rarer than the follower counts suggest. If you…
Practical marketing intelligence
for people who think.
© 2026 The Marketing Juice