A Brief History Of The Influencer

Brett Bernstein
8 min readMay 24, 2019

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Originally published on the Gatsby blog: https://www.gatsby.ai/post/a-brief-history-of-the-influencer

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Long before the term “influencer” was coined, and every marketer was fluent in the particulars of “influencer marketing”, certain influential figures have been silently guiding nearly every consumer’s…

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Brett Bernstein

Founder & CEO at Gatsby (https://gatsby.ai). Formerly: Marketing at Box pre / post IPO and Co-Founder at Natural Cravings (acquired). I write for fun!