WN TBD: Inside The Influence Economy

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Over the past decade, the world of influencers has grown from a fringe marketing movement to a multibillion-dollar industry. Now, tactics and strategies originally developed by influencers can be found across industries, from health care to politics to higher ed. What’s behind this meteoric rise? And why do we misunderstand a movement that Taylor Lorenz calls “a fundamental shift in society”? Guest: Taylor Lorenz, internet culture reporter for the New York Times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm an I-lin' toffee.
0:02.6	I'm an I-lin' bloody yacht. That's like someone else's life.
0:06.0	Don't need a proper plan.
0:07.6	I wouldn't enjoy it while we can.
0:10.6	Hello. Can you hear me?
0:14.4	The blue.
0:15.8	The blue is waiting you.
0:17.8	I don't know where we are.
0:20.2	Oh, God. He's dead. He's dead.
0:23.2	New original series, no escape.
0:25.8	Stream all episodes now. On Paramount Plus.
0:28.4	Top of the varnish to Stream now.
0:33.8	Earlier this year, Taylor Lorenz went to a beach party
0:36.6	thrown by Instagram.
0:38.2	It's called Insta Beach and it's up in Malibu, North of LA.
0:41.6	And they invite the top like 500 to 700 young influencers in LA.
0:49.0	Lorenz writes about internet culture.
0:51.0	She's at the New York Times now, but she was working for the Atlantic
0:54.0	when she went to Insta Beach.
0:55.8	It was just this beautiful beach, just north of LA.
1:00.2	Everyone was really young and cool.
1:02.8	And I felt like an ancient pale corpse
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