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Business Weekly: How influencers break the internet

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Intelligence Squared

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4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Olivia Yallop is a strategist, creative and trend analyser, whose new book Break the Internet lifts the lid on how the influencer economy works. She speaks with Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos about her approach to creating the book, which included visiting a VIP influencer party with a million-follower policy and a trip to influencer bootcamp along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest

0:06.2

But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of

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It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life

0:28.5

But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar-powered

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She now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school

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repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups

0:55.4

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0:59.5

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1:07.3

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1:12.8

Welcome to intelligence square business weekly Olivia Yalop joins us this week to discuss her new book break the internet

1:18.9

Here's Carl Miller research director in social media a demos with more

1:23.3

Today, we're talking about that only present yet to certain generations at least fairly opaque part of generating cultural capital online

1:31.2

Influence for culture Olivia Yalop is a strategist a creative and trend analyzer whose new book break the internet has done just that

1:38.9

Receiving rave reviews for its analysis for how the influence economy works with a Olivia visiting a VIP influence

1:44.0

A party with a million follow a policy and even influence the boot camp along the way

1:48.1

She joins us now to tell us more about it very warm welcome Olivia to intelligence squared

1:52.3

Thank you for having me happy to be here. So Olivia

1:54.9

When did you kind of begin to feel the kind of early tremors of

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