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All the time, meteors land on Earth An asteroid the size of a mountain moving at 64,000 kilometers per hour struck planet Earth 66 million years ago. Everybody is aware of what came next. I would want to assume that the dinosaurs gazed up at the heavens earlier that day only to ignore the far-off asteroid as yet another meteoroid space-rock passing our planet at a reasonable distance. Or maybe another shooting star improbable of surviving a passage through the atmosphere. Eventually, after all, meteors land on Earth constantly. But minutes later, most of those dinosaurs as well as 80% of life on Earth would be wiped off by an explosive yield projected at more than 100 trillion tons of TNT. The subsequent seismic event would be the equivalent of every earthquake that has ever occurred on Earth all at once. Only one in five would escape what scientists currently regard as the last of the five major mass extinction catastrophes; those close enough to see the massive fireball and unsuited for survival first went. When confronted with an existential threat, one may easily believe that they are the exception to the rule and that things will be alright. But look no farther than Blockbuster, Kodak, RadioShack, or Toys "R" Us to see what happens when you assume you are an exception to the rule or are too sluggish to change. Analysts claimed that customer behavior, on-demand streaming, and the Internet were to fault when Blockbuster at last went bankrupt.

However those are macro trends that always altered their.

Marketing environment; hence, if you wan to survive and grow as a company, you must evolve as well. Resist, or even delay, and finally you will have no choice than to endure the consequences. Regarding the well-known network of video rentals, they had no choice but to declare bankruptcy after failing to pay their late penalty fines. Although analysts are correct to hold disruptive companies like Netflix accountable for what transpired, Blockbuster most certainly drove itself into a death spiral long before customers wanted to download their movies on demand. Early in 2000, Reed Hastings, the creator of Netflix, traveled to Dallas to meet John Antioco, the CEO of Blockbusters. In return for in-store promotion throughout its 9,000 outlets, he said Netflix would operate Blockbuster's brand online. Their answer?I went to an audition for a project; it was between myself and another lady who is considerably better actor than I am, way better, but I got the job because I had the followers. Though it's not right, the film business today depends on it. She is right as well as wrong. Her impact on social media is not a factor in the film business; rather, it is the other way round. Actors would show up on the red carpet until recently in order to get a front-page feature. The entertainment business used the media in this way to increase profile. It was a quite successful approach for performers to land their next salary and gain more notoriety. To make casting selections, however, studios now monitor social media following and involvement. While the conventional media are merely a passive observer, the entertainment business is paying the actor in these days for promotion on their social media channels.

How did this come to pass The only thing you need is permission.

To express your imagination; Hastings became well-known to them. There is a completely equal playing field when you can get your hands on a drone, learn how to run one on YouTube, and share your footage for free to anyone on the earth. The only thing that will really set you apart is your capacity to, as YouTuber Casey Neistat notes in one of his most watched videos,17 "do what you can't"—to push the limits of imagination and invention. When I said I wanted to make movies, they said: You can't, you didn't go to film school," Casey says in the video. One cannot have a chat show Then he says, "But you can! You have a webcam." All you need as a creative is a phone, an internet connection, and a decent concept. Story you wish to tell, something you have to say, and the rest is history. And you are interviewing the POTUS next thing you know the later in reference to a 2016 video featuring YouTuber Liza Koshy Too interviewing Barack Obama on her YouTube channel. Clearly, this is boosting the expectations. Creatives suddenly have to start up their game. Ultimately, they are vying with tens of thousands of other gifted artists—within their own subgenre as well. The same holds true if you, a marketer, collaborate with a gifted social media artist. The result will vary greatly depending on how we advise (brief) for the photoshoot if we both pay a photographer to capture images of the same topic with the same gear, under the same conditions. Outcome is better the more experience you have. Keep in mind: Watch not to unintentionally choke innovation with a chokehold. Writing a good brief that strikes a mix between marketing goals and artistic expression is a real craft.The eyeballs are on other individuals, independent of the social media channel they post their material on.

A few years ago Blogger WordPress Twitter and Facebook were front and center.

These days, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat rule. Though I'm not sure where it will be in another few years or what the formats will look like, I would guess we will consume stuff from other people. Where the eyeballs and attention are, individuals have more publishing power than the biggest media corporations worldwide had less than twenty years ago.Working with contemporary media outlets, you are trying to reach customer expectations with your message. Recall that study from Kantar Millward Brown? These are customers that are open to commercials that tell an interesting story in social media, tutorials, and other kinds of sponsored content as well as those that feature actual people in real-world circumstances instead than celebs. You will thus want to change your perspective and approach social media creators, influencers, like media publishers and the investment like advertising spend.= Brands will put aside between 5 and 10 billion of their media budgets for influencer marketing over the next several years. It marks a seismic change in media consumption rather than a fleeting trend. Still, the word influencer is sometimes abused and similarly misinterpreted. The next chapter will teach you that influence is an outcome rather than a career and the three key levers capable of releasing the full potential of influencer marketing for your brand.g bucks most definitely will follow. And if we want to stay in our field as marketers and digital advertising, our task will be to follow along and play by consumer guidelines. That stated, consider digital content creators as modern publications or TV networks rather than only "social media stars."Red in Depth laughed out of the room.