Brand-backed influencer campaigns can be hard to spot – how to tell if a company is behind a social media post
- Written by Abhisek Kuanr, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Essex

Nearly three-quarters of Generation Z (people born between 1996 and 2010) follow at least one influencer on social media platforms and 44% buy things based on influencers’ recommendations.
This age group consists of around 68 million people and counts for 20% of the world’s population, so marketers sit up and...