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Influencer Marketing

Marketing through creators who make products, brands, or offers credible within their communities.

Moritz Lambrecht
Moritz Lambrecht
Updated: July 9, 2026

Definition

Influencer marketing uses creator reach, credibility, and content skill to build brand awareness, demand, or revenue. It can be branding-led, performance-led, or hybrid.

Also known as: Creator Marketing

Core logic

Instead of buying ad pressure alone, brands build attention through people and formats their audiences already follow.

Successful programs connect creator selection, briefing, tracking, content rights, paid amplification, and reporting.

Typical goals

Common goals include brand awareness, product launches, customer acquisition, content production, community building, and performance scaling.

The best channel plan depends on whether short-term conversions or long-term brand building matter most.

Moritz Lambrecht

About the author

Moritz is an expert in data-driven influencer marketing as well as co-founder and CEO of the influencer marketing agency Ad Specialist. Together with his team, he has already implemented over 10,000 influencer campaigns and managed more than €50 million in advertising budgets for customers such as HelloFresh, Emma, Clark, mymuesli and many other well-known e-commerce companies. His focus is on helping e-commerce companies grow profitably through creative and measurable influencer marketing strategies on channels such as YouTube, Instagram and Twitch.

Through his performance-oriented and effective approach, he has built a reputation as a leading expert and speaker in German e-commerce. In this blog - as well as on LinkedIn and his YouTube channel - he regularly shares valuable insights about data-driven influencer marketing.

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