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The Creator Economy Is Not a PR Tactic, with Gregory Curtis from Empower Media

Your shoppers are not browsing anymore. They are following one person who eats, breathes and posts a single subject, and they buy what she tells them to buy. Your deck still ranks that person by follower count, because that is the column your agency sends you.

Here is the part that should keep you up. Your creator money is sitting in the wrong line item. It is filed as publicity, as social, as a nice moment, which means when finance pulls the report there is no media plan to point at. You are spending real dollars in a place your CFO has no column for, and that is a budget you cannot defend…

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