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Welcome to Influencer Marketing Talks, brought to you by Cure Media - the leading influencer marketing company for fashion brands. This is your weekly podcast to learn more about consumer marketing in the digital age and all things influencer marketing in right around 15 minutes. Each week Frida Ekholm and Sanna Ödmark from Cure Media cover topics around digital marketing and social media to help you take your marketing strategy to the next level. Also, join the conversations with topic experts from the industry! This podcast is brought to you by Cure Media, the leading influencer marketing company for brands that want to grow. www.curemedia.com
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Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Building Brand Love with NYX Professional Makeup
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Founded in Los Angeles in 1999 and today one of the most popular beauty brands in the world - we’re talking about NYX Professional Makeup! Available worldwide both online and over at thousands of retailers, NYX manages to stay relevant among it’s audience with a high-quality product range and wallet-friendly prices.
In today’s episode, we have Diana Valdez, Head of Consumer Engagement at NYX to share her expertise on how to grow consumer engagement and build brand love through social media.
In 15 quick minutes, we’ll be looking at:
- How NYX Professional Makeup keeps up with beauty TikTok
- Why building brand love is key to make consumer shop in 2023
- How NYX Professional Makeup practices social listening

Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
What Research Says about Consumer Behaviour 2023 ft. GWI
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
What does something named “the lipstick effect” have in common with the economic downturn? Actually, a lot. With 2023’s economic situation, brands need to have a solid understanding of how to attract consumers' loyalty and money before their competitors do.
In this episode, Frida Ekholm talked to Chris Beer, Data Journalist at GWI, one of the leading audience research companies for the global marketing industry, on how what the latest data and insights say about consumer behaviors in times of crisis - and how marketers need to adapt to it.
We’re unpacking:
- The psychology of spending in times of crisis
- Data from previous crises that will be valuable in 2023
- How crises are shaping new behaviors

Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Is Data-Driven Influencer Marketing the Industry’s Biggest Con?
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Google data-driven influencer marketing and you’re going to get over 12,000,000 results all telling you what it’s about, why it’s important, and how you should be doing it.
But is the very premise a lie?
Looking into what data means for the influencer marketing channel today, data scientist Bernard Rosencrantz and marketing manager Holly Morran bring you their standing-room-only session from the Influencer Marketing Show 2022 held last month in London.
They’re unpacking:
- The buzzwords that people use to back up their claims of being data-driven
- Why it’s so difficult to actually deliver
- And what data-driven influencer marketing might look like in the not-too-distant future

Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
5 Ways to Grow Engagement on TikTok
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Is your brand having a hard time figuring out TikTok? You’re not alone. With its short and snappy videos, this app has grasped the attention of many but unfortunately, brands are struggling to figure out the app and what type of content they should put out there.
For years, Instagram has been the primary online space for brands to grow their businesses on and some have really succeeded in establishing a good brand image on Instagram. However, while posting aesthetic content might’ve worked great for the Gram, the case is not the same when it comes to TikTok.
To figure TikTok out better, we invited Julia Arheden, Brand Partnership Advisor at Cure Media into the studio. Julia is not only an influencer marketing expert, but also a TikTok and beauty enthusiast, In this episode, we have merged these two expert areas of Julia to deep-dive into 5 ways beauty brands can grow engagement on TikTok.
We'll be discussing:
- How the TikTok algorithm works
- What audiences you can reach on TikTok
- Why beauty brands should hop on haircare

Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
5 Influencer Marketing Trends for 2023
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Influencer marketing remains one of the most powerful marketing tools at your disposal and in 2025, researchers estimate that the channel will reach another all time high. But, the way that consumers want to experience influencer marketing is changing.
With investments soaring and the financial crisis placing greater pressure on the importance of a decent return, brands will need to keep up with these moving targets, adapting their strategies to placate and engage a restless audience and emerge on top.
In this episode, we’re presenting the 5 big influencer marketing trends for 2023.
- Why economic-conscious content will be a must
- How to approach influencer niches getting niche-r as a brand
- What 360° IGC is and why you should implement it

Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Coca-Cola on Brand Building Through Influencer Marketing
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
How does one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands work with influencer marketing to strengthen its presence and create buzz-worthy activations? To find out, we invited Coca-Cola to join us in the studio and let us in on what makes them such a leader in their industry and the channel.
How does it differ to work with a brand as established as Coca-Cola vs one that isn’t, and what’s the key behind developing influencer marketing strategies that create buzz? To help answer this question, we’ll be chatting with Victoria Adolfsson, Brand Manager for the Coca-Cola Trademark with a portfolio of Coca-Cola Original, Zero Sugar and Light.
- How Coca-Cola approaches TikTok
- Building the Coca-Cola brand during a recession
- Why Coca-Cola makes influencer marketing an integral part of their media mix

Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Media 2023: Consumption trends you need to know
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
As the number of channels and devices proliferate, it becomes harder and harder for brands to cover every avenue, forcing marketing teams to be more decisive and analytical about the choices they make regarding their resources and budgets.
In today’s episode, we walk you through 5 of the media consumption trends that we think will rule in 2023.
We'll be discussing:
- Which particular media channel we think will struggle the most
- How mobile and social continues to rule it all
- What brands should do about the fact that ad tolerance decreases

Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Recession-proof your marketing strategies - what brands need to know
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
The marketing budget is often one of the first to be cut when an economic downturn hits. But time and time again, history has proven that the companies that invest in marketing during challenging times are the ones that come out as winners.
But what type of marketing activities will make you hit the marks? Is there a golden way to recession-proof your marketing strategy? In this week’s episode, we invited Erik Modig who works as professor of economics at the Center for Consumer Marketing at Stockholm School of Economics, to talk about what brands must know to survive the upcoming economic crisis.
Tune in to learn:
- Erik’s best advice on how to recession-proof your marketing strategy
- Reasons why this is the time to invest in marketing and brand building activities - or you’ll do your competitors a big favor
- Why it’s better to cut some marketing channels completely and instead go all in on a few

Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
4 Ways Fashion Marketing Has Changed
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
In this week’s episode we’re going to take a deep dive into the fashion industry. But - we’ll be leaving the trend-setting and taste-vetting to Anna Wintour and instead looking specifically at 4 ways fashion marketing has changed over the years. And it has been years because after the bare essentials for survival were commodified, fashion followed shortly after.
We'll be discussing:
- What fashion brands can do about the crowded marketplace.
- The importance of the terribly unsexy-sounding corporate responsibility
- Why the one-shot campaigns have had their time

Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Succeeding on TikTok in 2023: Tips & Tricks From the Inside
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
If you’re building a marketing strategy for 2023, it’d be hard not to consider using TikTok. As its user base is expanding at a rapid pace among all generations, it’s finally seen as a place where all brands need to have a presence and a solid strategy - or else lose customers to the ones who do.
But what does it take to succeed on TikTok in 2023? How do you make sure you hit the mark when it comes to being relevant and authentic to your target audience while avoiding the frequent and inevitable pitfalls en route?
This week, we’re joined by Emma Lundgren, Agency Partnerships Lead at TikTok, to give her best tips and tricks from the inside.
We'll be discussing:
- How brands should approach TikTok as a marketing platform
- Do’s & dont’s
- Emma’s top 3 advice on how to leverage TikTok to its fullest