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[May 09, 2019]

RhythmOne Releases Full-Year 2018 Influencer Marketing Benchmarks Report

SAN FRANCISCO, May 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RhythmOne, a Taptica company (AIM: TAP), today released its sixth annual Influencer Marketing Benchmarks Report. This report provides insights into return on investment (ROI) and best practices based on an in-depth analysis of 67 US-based campaigns that ran and were completed between January and December 2018 as part of RhythmInfluence, the RhythmOne influencer marketing solution.

RhythmOne’s Full-Year 2018 Highlights
The report provides full-year 2018 campaign benchmarks for key performance indicators across 19 advertiser categories, including engagement rate (ER), cost-per-engagement (CPE), and earned media value (EMV). Also included are Social Media Listening (e.g., positive sentiment) benchmarks, which measure program ROI and efficacy.

Key insights from the report include:

  • Influencer marketing spending is on the rise: the average campaign spend on RhythmOne’s influencer marketing offerings increased 2.9x over its full-year 2017 average.
  • Influencer marketing drives engagement: engagement rate (ER) across all influencer marketing campaigns averaged 9.66%.
  • Influencer marketing delivers earned media value: advertisers that implemented an influencer marketing campaign in 2018 received $8.12 in earned media value (EMV) for every $1.00 of campaign spend, on average.
  • Influencer marketing is cost-efficient: cost-per-engagement (CPE) across all influencer marketing campaigns averaged $0.29.
  • Influencer marketing engagement is enhanced with video: use of video in campaigns was up 2x over RhythmOne’s 2017 benchmark with a total of 139 videos created.
  • Influencer marketing promotes positive brand sentiment: advertisers that applied social media listening in 2018 saw an average of 98% positive sentiment across the board.

“As influencer marketing continues to mature and drive value for our clients, we are finding that more and more advertisers are looking to leverage the custom offerings that influencer marketing providers bring to the table,” said Kimmy Fleishman, Associate Director, Content at Spark Foundry. “Brands that run with an influencer strategy focused on uniquely driving conumer engagement – especially through emerging channels such as video, Instagram Stories, and even live events – are the ones who find the most success. It all comes down to letting the influencers engage their audiences in the ways that they know best to ensure the message resonates, no matter what the campaign KPIs are.”


Influencer marketing continues to gain momentum with advertisers looking to engage targeted, quality audiences at scale. RhythmOne’s programs work in close concert with programmatic ad campaigns to amplify success, driving consumers down the funnel toward a conversion or action. As influencer marketing becomes a more defined marketing strategy, brands are beginning to make the natural shift to clearly define campaign success, through traditional brand lift KPIs and direct conversions/actions.

“Our latest Benchmarks Report affirms influencer marketing is an essential element to the digital marketing strategies of leading consumer and business brands,” said Katie Paulsen, VP of Influencer Marketing, RhythmOne. “In 2018, we saw more advertisers activate multi-month and even year-long campaigns in an effort to deepen brand ambassador partnerships and form ongoing relationships with influencers who were key to their campaigns’ success. These investments are paying off with higher engagement rates and brand lift, which prove the value of influencer marketing and set the stage for continued success.”

Over the course of 2018, RhythmOne ran influencer marketing campaigns with 53 unique brands spanning 19 advertiser categories, employing 640 influencers who created 4,533 pieces of content, in aggregate. The full report highlights aggregate campaign results, including category-specific benchmarks across key verticals.

To download the entire Full-Year 2018 Influencer Marketing Benchmarks Report, visit http://rhythm1.co/IMBR2018.

About RhythmOne
RhythmOne is a market leader in multiscreen digital advertising solutions.?Led by advanced TV and powered by the most efficient and effective programmatic platform, we provide innovative solutions for brands to connect with consumers – including YuMe by RhythmOne and RhythmInfluence – and drive real business outcomes for advertisers and publishers. Our full-stack, end-to-end unified RhythmOne Programmatic Platform – inclusive of RhythmGuard, our proprietary brand safety technology – is focused on delivering scale, efficiency, performance, quality, and actionable data for demand and supply-focused clients and partners. Founded in 2004 in the United Kingdom, RhythmOne was acquired by Taptica International (AIM: TAP) in 2019 and maintains offices throughout the US and Canada, Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.rhythmone.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This article contains forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the words "may," "will," "expect," "intend," "plan," "objective," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "project," "potential," "continue" and "ongoing," or the negative of these terms, or other comparable terminology intended to identify statements about the future. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements about the potential and effectiveness of influencer marketing. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results and the timing of events to differ materially from future results that are expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include the dynamic and rapidly evolving sector, as well as the highly competitive industry that RhythmOne operates in, which make it difficult to evaluate prospects. These and other risk factors are discussed in RhythmOne’s Annual Report for the period ended March 31, 2018. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to RhythmOne as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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