Micro-influencers? No, it is rather Alpha consumers!

To help you prepare effectively for the coming year, we have identified, with the help of some thirty experts, some fifteen trends that will impact the Influencer Marketing market and social media in 2021. These trends are to be integrated into your strategies to make a difference on the market.

Among the predictions and trends analysed (all of which can be found in our Report “Influencer Marketing in 2021: vision, projections, and trends”), a look back at the notion of Alpha consumers which will mark the next few months.

40% of collaborations between KOLs and brands during containment were carried out by nano- and micro-influencers (source: Socialbakers).

We already mentioned this in a previous article, which explained in particular that the image of the influencer was no longer just that of a personality with thousands of subscribers and that brands were increasingly interested in the influence generated by consumers.

Today, this category of content creators – the nano and micro-influencers – is distinguished by its smaller community. Typically, they have less than 50 000 followers on their social networks. Another particularity is that they respond to all requests (messages, emails, and comments) and therefore maintain very strong links with their communities.

They can easily identify with their lives because it is so simple, with no glitter with the everyday worries that we can all encounter.

Advertisers are increasingly turning to this type of profile because their proximity to their followers means that their engagement rates are very good.  Even if they don’t have millions of subscribers, these KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) take on the role of good buddies who are always full of advice and experts in a field.

Aqua Mobile, an Indian telephone brand, for example, has set up a group of micro-influencers with which it collaborates regularly. They are considered not as content creators but as Alpha consumers, i.e. profiles that resemble the brand’s target consumers, who can give them feedback on the latest innovations. In addition to testing the product, they make it more popular on social networks.

The brand is a double winner: it has communication tools and concrete feedback to help it improve its product.

Nanos and micro-influencers, therefore, make themselves precious in the eyes of advertisers and could become more important in the coming months.

30 interviews and quotes from marketing professionals, KOLs, professional associations, and social platforms, 1 editorial signed by the Union des Marques will have enabled Kolsquare experts to draw the outlines of the Influencer Marketing and social media trends to be expected in 2021 and to feed the actions of professionals throughout the coming months and years.

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