IAB SA Digital Influencer Marketing Committee approach and process to develop a common set of definitions and terms for the segment

The committee’s mandate is also to ‘uphold the best interests of the consumers’, as although the guidelines will be serving stakeholders; consumers are the end audience. This is part of an exercise on a larger scale and quarterly updates on the work of the committee are released. Discussions include the addition of influencers in a second phase of the process to ensure that the work of the committee is aligned with influencer’s realities.

Industry is invited to review the draft proposal of definitions available here and to share their feedback by Friday, 30 October 2020 at 4pm. All feedback is to be itemised within the downloaded document and emailed to ten.asbai@olleH. The IAB SA will review the feedback in the first week of November. The findings will be presented in an open workshop on Tuesday, 10 November from 10am to 12pm via Zoom Video Conference. Post which a timeline will be shared for the definitions’ toolkit from the committee.

Says Stephane Rogovsky, CEO and Founder R-Squared Digital and the Committee Lead: “The Committee appreciates all of the input to date from industry. South Africa is one of the first to tackle influencer marketing conversations through a process such as this and we are honoured to be working with IAB Global on this project.”

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