In addition to being the company most contaminated by the pictures of other people's holidays and preferred by Italian rapper to publish stories NSFW by mistake, Instagram is a place to run a lot of money.

The novelty is that, if anything, to make them really do not need to be a celebrity.
That's what I showed an experiment in Mediakix, an agency of the California-based marketing that works with influencers, bloggers and youtuber.
Mediakix created two fake profiles Instagram, has filled them with photos taken all over the same photo shoot or even taken from the internet, it has grown by buying a bit 'of followers, likes and comments and then tried to monetize.
In short, within three months, the profiles in question-calibeachgirl310, on behalf of the fake model Californian Alexa Rae, and wanderingggirl, on behalf of Amanda Smith-traveling photographer pretend they have accumulated, respectively 50 and 30 thousand followers and thousands of like for post, all with a total investment of about $ 1100 spent on the purchase of followers before, and like and comment on.
Once you reach a certain result Mediakix has joined the two accounts in a number of influencer marketing platforms.
They are sites that serve as agency influencers (ie, for anyone who has an account with a greater number of followers a certain threshold-10 thousand in the case of the experiment Mediakix), mediating between them and the brand that they need to campaigns advertising.
Just look at the posts of the two fake account in question to figure out that something is fake: they have thousands of likes but only a few dozen comments and these are all phrases clearly generated by an algorithm.
Result: Alexa and Amanda (which do not exist) in the space of a few months managed to get a set of proposals for advertising campaigns.
Nothing big, from 100 to 300 dollars per month or free product, but still the money is.
Alexa, whose account was focused on fashion, he got a proposal from a company of swimwear and a food and beverage company.
Amanda, who from his bio Instagram deals with travel and photography, has received a brand of alcohol.
According to a study this year, the turnover dell'influencer marketing has exceeded one billion dollars.
The more the market grows, the more the brand you throw, the more agencies need to find influencers to entrust campaigns.
Which explains why situations like the experiment not only can occur but are not even particularly rare or drugs.
Obviously, being fundamentally Mediakix an advertising agency, the purpose of the experiment was not to gain-and indeed none of the tenders received was accepted.
Rather it was an attempt to draw attention to the problem of what is becoming the world of influencers and advertising on Instagram (spoiler: a jungle full of bots) to convince brands to rely on more standard platforms (spoiler: as Medikix).
Now excuse me a second while I look "like buying followers tutorial" on Google.

From Vice