Influencers are ‘extra-fraudinary’ and don’t have enough checks and balances on them: Shelly Horton

June 8, 2017 4:35

Lifestyle and news commentator Shelly Horton has argued there aren’t enough processes and rules around influencers.

“An influencer is a someone who has bought 50,000 followers on Instagram and poses in a bikini with a green smoothie.

“To me influencers, they’re ‘extra-fraudinary’, and there aren’t enough checks and balances on them,” Horton claimed at Mumbrella360.

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Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.

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2 COMMENTS

eaon 9 Jun 17

Good to see the really really big issues being debated

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Beau Ushay 13 Jun 17

With the amount of money being pumped into ‘Influencer Marketing’, I would argue this discussion is extremely relevant..

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