Marketers are pulling back on influencer campaigns—and promoting user-generated content from ‘real’ people. The influencer economy is on the brink of a seismic shift. Catalyzed by the popularity of TikTok and its algorithm, which prioritizes content types over creators, brand marketers and digital agencies are increasingly allocating social media budgets toward user-generated content (UGC) from sm
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