Inside an influencer house
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We’re off to an influencer house, a luxurious mansion where social media personalities are temporarily living together to create content on behalf of a plant-based food brand. It’s a new way of advertising with big budgets and big personalities, but is it money well spent? Elizabeth Hotson hangs out by the ridiculously photogenic lily pond with content creators Jessica Hickey and Ella Blake; Ashley Morton and Oli Paterson explain how and why social media content succeeds - or fails - on Tik Tok and Instagram, and Morgan M-James nearly burns down the kitchen with his innovative plant based creation. Plus, we hear how Tik Tok comedy duo Ylwsqr, aka Bec Horsley and Sam Bartrop, are already planning their next move into the media industry and James Brooks from social media marketing company, Team Brooks explains how the content created by the housemates will be used. And Simon Day, co-creator of the Squeaky Bean brand, explains why he's taking the plunge on the project.
Produced and presented by Elizabeth Hotson
Photo of Morgan M-James in the Squeaky House kitchen. Photo by Elizabeth Hotson
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Elizabeth Hotson and in today's Business Daily, we're visiting an influencer house, |
| 0:06.6 | a luxurious mansion where social media personalities are temporarily living together |
| 0:11.4 | to create content on behalf of a plant-based food brand. |
| 0:15.0 | These are young people who understand the current culture and who understand how to get the attention of people their age. |
| 0:25.2 | It's a new way of advertising with big budgets and big personalities, |
| 0:29.5 | so what could possibly go wrong? |
| 0:31.3 | What about vegan chicken balls. |
| 0:38.6 | Oh no, careful. |
| 0:40.4 | Very quick. |
| 0:41.5 | Oh no, wait, oh no. |
| 0:43.6 | This is Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the sound of a summer's day, deep in the English countryside. |
| 0:54.7 | This rural idyll wouldn't look out of place in a John Constable landscape until this happens. |
| 1:06.4 | That's the sound of some very excited social media influences jumping into the water and making as big a splash as possible. |
| 1:14.6 | Because this is very much not a John Constable painting. |
| 1:18.2 | It's the setting for another type of art form altogether, content creation. |
| 1:23.4 | And this building is what's known as an influencer house. |
| 1:27.1 | For the next three weeks, seven doyends of social media platforms, such as Instagram and TikTok, |
| 1:33.0 | will be using the grounds and interiors of this country house to film videos for their social media accounts. |
| 1:48.8 | The company behind the project, Squeaky Bean, a plant-based food brand, |
| 1:54.2 | is hoping that these social media posts will increase awareness of its products and ethos and ultimately translate into sales. |
| 1:57.5 | It's a new way of approaching advertising and has the potential to really shake up the industry. |
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