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🗓️ 16 January 2025
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In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, we explore the rise of ghost influencers—anonymous personas creating real engagement for brands. Hear how one edgy social media manager turned this idea into a thriving business.
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0:22.4 | Lemonada. |
0:27.1 | Ghost influencers and the art of viral storytelling. |
0:34.6 | Got a fun one for you here today. |
0:36.1 | Really interesting thing. |
0:37.4 | You might have |
0:37.8 | never heard of this. In fact, I have not. But these days with AI, with fake news, with, I don't know, |
0:44.7 | like what can you believe, what you see online, all that kind of stuff. I guess I shouldn't be |
0:48.6 | shocked. So we're going to explore the rise of ghost influencers, anonymous personas, creating |
0:52.8 | real engagement for brands. |
0:55.2 | Specifically, we'll hear how one edgy social media manager turn this idea into an actual |
0:59.9 | business. Inside Usul School is all about unconventional ideas, unconventional interesting ideas, |
1:05.1 | sometimes that raise all sorts of questions, like what kind of world are we living in, |
1:08.3 | but hey, we're focused on the practical nitty-gritty details details this is the throwback Thursday segment where we go back to the archives pull out somebody's |
1:15.8 | story and say how what what has changed like what have you done differently like what's your |
1:20.4 | business been like over the past couple years often there's a point of evolution or pivoting |
1:24.8 | perhaps i don't always like these startupy words, but you know what I mean. |
1:28.2 | They made a change in some way. So we could also call this one from the Department of Presented |
1:32.3 | Without Comment. I'll just let you hear the story. Okay. This is the story of social media |
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