Future of Marketing: Brands want creators who can win over humans and machines at once

Two things drive creator spending now. Whether they move audiences and whether they move algorithms inside AI platforms.

The second piece is moving fast enough that marketers are already building it into briefs, even though it hasn’t touched pricing yet. Right now, the focus is narrower. Understanding how a creator’s content shapes what an AI chatbot recommends, and using that to shorten the odds of being the answer.

Three agencies working this space right now can each point to the moment clients stopped treating it as theoretical. With Reign Maker, AI visibility has been the first or second thing raised with every client for six months straight running. Over at Go Fish Digital, it shows up as a steady stream of clients asking how their creator content is landing across the most cited platforms. Ogilvy is further along with some accounts: a handful of its more advanced clients are already setting explicit KPIs around discoverability, credibility and culture, rather than waiting to see how the conversation plays out.  

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Marketers say usage rights are driving up the price to work with creators

Creator pricing is a problem, and everyone is trying to determine the best solution. But one of the biggest hurdles that creators, their agents and the creator marketers looking to work with them face isn’t the initial price tag to get the partnership started, but the usage rights that are tacked on.

Usage rights have become a major part of every creator partnership, dictating how the content will be used, where it will appear (locally or globally), and how long it can be used. As such, they’re also a major point of contention throughout the creator pricing process. 

“There’s no consistency in terms of how pricing is presented,” said Danielle Wiley, founder and CEO of influencer marketing agency Sway. “When we go out to a creator or to a manager and ask for pricing, we are very clear: ‘This is for the post. This includes 30 days paid usage, two months organic usage, and 30 days exclusivity. And we want a price for that’.”

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