Finding the right influencers with the right engagement is crucial to the success of influencer marketing campaign. Together with the number of follower, engagement rate, audience's demographics, another feature that should be included to leverage your influencer campaign strategy is the brand affinity!

Putting a face on products has always worked for a number of reasons-

• People like to buy from people. Logos and design are important but word of mouth recommendations do a lot more for sales.
• Ads are ubiquitous and amongst all the noise, a brand partner can reach the right people at lower cost.
• Because you can't be everywhere at once, Brand ambassadors can take over some of it to champion a brand they love at events and more.
• Get all the insights you need about any social user to make sure you are focusing on the right people.

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Feature: Brand Affinity

Once signed up with Affable, you can search for influencers, visit their profile, and exploit our Instagram influencer analytics such as audience's demographics, engagement rate, rate of suspicious followers, audience interests. Our latest feature Brand affinity can list down an entire list of brands the influencer has worked before, whether the post was sponsored or organic, when the image was posted, and so on.

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Here are some reasons that our Brand affinity analytics should be added to your influencer campaign strategy:

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#Loyalty

Whether you’re a big brand like Victoria’s Secret or the millennial watch company Daniel Wellington, the right brand ambassador is the vital factor to your influencer campaign strategy.

Let me remind you of an old example. In 2001, Britney Spears was signed on to be Pepsi’s brand ambassador for a 2-year period, however soon after she was caught drinking Pepsi in public, this caused a major blow to the image of Pepsi! Quite simply, you wouldn’t want to work with influencers who have partnership with your competing companies. It is also important to find influencers who share the same interest with your business’s category as it can add credibility and relevance for your influencer marketing campaign.

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#Competitor Analysis

Be thoughtful about which social channels and campaigns you devote your marketing budget to—and make sure that if your competitors are there to promote hashtags and boost their posts, you’re there, too. With the Affinity tool, you can keep an eye on your competitors’ sponsored posts with influencers and see what has been working for them, so you can make smarter decisions based on that reference.

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#Organic Posts

Very often, influencers share their experiences, tag brands and products without being paid to do so on Instagram. Affable’s Brand Affinity tool can detect those posts for an influencer. So if influencers tagged your product before and has organically shared their thoughts, partnering with them can be a good idea. Not only with their association with your product seem natural but will also be easier to convert them from a user to a superfan.