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How Influencers Are Owning Their Audience Data

Episode 138 of Influencer Marketing with Fexingo examines a new frontier in the creator economy: top influencers building their own data warehouses. Lucas and Luna dig into the case of lifestyle creator Maya Chen, who spent $400,000 annually on fragmented analytics from four vendors and decided to invest $1.2 million in a custom Snowflake-based infrastructure. They break down why owning audience insights directly—rather than renting them from platforms or third parties—is becoming a competitive necessity for creators in 2026, and how this shift reshapes brand deals and monetization…

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