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Originally Posted by glend
I have not made any personal allegations, nor mentioned brands. There are several way that influencers are paid, and from my research none seem to be direct employees of the organisation they serve. Typically they are paid based on traffic they generate. Take the example of an Instagram influencer, they can make significant amounts of money from a single post, provided that they are promoting a client's product and have enough followers to generate the traffic.
They would likely be paid out of the advertising or marketing budgets of the suppliers, and they would not be directly employed. They may be paid through internet/digital media third parties who are working for a large supplier, so always appearing to be non-aligned.
Digitial media companies may provide the structure for these services across multiple product categories and vendors, making a fee for the service and paying the downstream influencer.
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Well Glen, unless you have specific details that IIS Admin and Mods should be made aware of, you're basically just speculating that IIS is influenced in such a way.
Just in case members aren't aware of it, Mike does make certain exceptions to the TOS rules at his own personal discretion and he lets the mods know in advance.
Glen, you can send us or Mike a PM with specific details of your investigations pertaining directly to such activity on IIS.
Generalising or making vague insinuations about such matters does not serve to improve the community here on IIS.
RB