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Influencers are disgusted with Amazon's paltry $25-per-video endorsement offer | It looks like full-time Amazon UCG creators are getting a 90-percent cut in pay

www.techspot.com Influencers are disgusted with Amazon's paltry $25-per-video endorsement offer

Last December, Amazon launched a new addition to its Influencer Program called "Inspire." Inspire is essentially TikTok-like videos featuring Amazon products. The retailer wanted to jump on...

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It’s possible for influencers to be garbage and Amazon to be garbage at the same time, it’s not mutually exclusive
Pretty simple.. if you are an “influencer” don’t do their shit work for them
- Seriously, quit and get a job which contributes to society if the pay is too pitiful playing MLM for Amazon.
  
  If you take your sentiment all the way, then marketing companies and internal marketing roles should be done away with.
  At the end of the day, influencers are nothing more than outsourced freelance marketers.

"One commenter pointed out that the amount of work needed to complete such a contract equates to a full-time job."
Oh, the humanity.
- A full time job that paid $12500 without benefits for roughly 5.5 months of work if they release 3 videos a day, 7 days a week with sponsored content. No one should take that.
  Edit: fixed missing 0.
  
  3 videos a day for 5.5 months (about 167 days). That's 500 videos. 500 x $25 = $12500, not $1250.
  I have no clue if it's feasible to make three videos a day for 5.5 months, but I guess if the length of the video doesn't matter then It must be doable.
  It could be worth it if they can also make money through other companies for the same videos. Plus if they're popular enough that Amazon is paying them then they must already be making ad revenue or something.
  I don't know. I'm not a pro, just spitballing.

“Influencing” should never have been a thing, and as it is, it should have died a grisly death a long time ago. I’m disgusted with them being enriched while trying everything they can to get me to part with my money. I did very well before they were a thing, and I’ll do just as well when they’re gone.

Can you imagine people getting paid to go around social media to "influencing" people to say, go watch my latest movie?
How is that even a real job?

How about influencers look for a real job instead?
- That's exactly what they're removed about. It is too much like a real job.
- Because they already have a real job, and now they're being screwed by their employer, just like a real job
  
  Technically it's their client that's putting the thumb screws to them.
  If that's the case the logical solution is to put your commercial hat on and find another client. Amazon aren't the only ones paying.
  If Amazon was your only client that'll be tough, but speaking from experience if you don't diversify your client base, you're living on borrowed time anyway.
  This doesn't mean Amazon are not being abusive, but the solution isn't to moan on the internet.
- I'm honestly sickened by the simping for Amazon in this thread. Pathetic.
  
  Is it really dumping for Amazon? Or just dunking on influencers?
  
  More like everyone taking Zucks side in his cage match with Elon. We hate them both, a lot, but you’ve got to choose someone to root for.
  For me it’s a bit like slime mold. I can mostly avoid contact with Amazon if I choose to; influencers just spring up organically around me an no amount of bleach can get rid of them.
- I don't really understand what an "influencer" is. Seems like a made up term to justify unemployment,plus they should be called "IMHOs", cause that's exactly what they are: " in my humble opinioners". IMHO of course.
  Edit: autocorrect.
  
  Influencers are narcissists monetising their pathology.
  
  I suspect many of them aren't humble at all though.
  
  It's rarely humble, and rarely their opinion

I wouldn't mind if influencers disappeared for good.

Remember when being called an “influencer” was a suspicious and generally bad thing?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.

What I get from the article is that only is the pay lower, there is no longer an "up to" part in the contract. Meaning you don't get paid anything until you've created the full 500 videos. Meaning you can't use it as a side hustle, it is a full time job.

I'm disgusted with "influencers".
- Hard agree.

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