Yahoo Scientist: Not Smart For Brands To Pay Kim Kardashian $10k Per Tweet
A few hours after we spoke with Sean Rad, CEO of “in-stream” advertising company Ad.ly on the PRNewser Weekly Podcast this morning, a Yahoo scientist blasted what may be the company’s biggest money maker — Kim Kardashian — at the Advertising Age Digital Conference just a few blocks away.
Yahoo’s principal research scientist Duncan Watts told the conference:
If I had a fixed budget, I could get more value from a small amount of very influential [influencers], or a lot of smaller influencers, on Twitter…If you recruit enough people who, on average, influence just one other person, you could get a much better return on investment if you aggregated them and altogether paid them a tenth of what Kardashian gets.
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