{"id":251513,"date":"2026-04-29T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:32:09","slug":"possible-puts-creators-in-spotlight-because-the-rise-of-influencer-marketing-is-just-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251513\/","title":{"rendered":"POSSIBLE puts creators in spotlight because the rise of influencer marketing is just getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we welcomed the POSSIBLE<\/a> conference back to Miami Beach, now in its third year.\u00a0Attendees equate the three-day, fast-growing marketing and media summit to a stateside Cannes, the annual festival held in France.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The event had already outgrown its home at the Fontainebleau hotel and this year expanded into the neighboring Eden Roc hotel. Expansion won\u2019t stop there, with POSSIBLE\u2019s Global President and Co-founder Christian Muche announcing on Monday that they will be expanding to Lisbon in October of 2027, as they look to build a global platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

7,200 attendees joined the conference this year, with brand marketers making up 32%. Speakers included CMOs across many well-known brands like Pinterest, Home Depot and Kraft Heinz, as well as CBO\u2019s from Youtube, Snap and iHeartMedia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Highlighting the growing importance of influencers in the overall marketing stack, this year we saw the launch of the \u2018Creator Economy Academy\u2019. Sessions for this track explored how creators are evolving into their own media agencies and how brands can successfully collaborate with creators.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a session on deconstructing successful brand-creator partnerships on Youtube, Miami-based CEO & Founder of Influential, Ryan Detert, whose influencer marketing platform sold to advertising giant Publicis Groupe in 2024, thinks we\u2019re only in the 3rd or 4th inning of the rise of influencer marketing. The data would seem to agree, with a recent survey of 600+ marketers by\u00a0Influencer Marketing Hub<\/a>\u00a0showing that 72.2% of respondents expect influencer marketing budgets to increase by 50% or more.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Dhar Mann, Katie Feeney, and Ryan Detert at POSSIBLE.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Influencers across sessions shared similar advice for how brands can best work with creators. Both Dhar Mann, whose content generates nearly 300 million views each week, and Valeria Lipovetsky [pictured below], who boasts 7 million followers across social media platforms, stressed the importance of building a long term relationship with influencers \u2013 not just a transactional one. This helps creators become trusted brand advocates and leads to better outcomes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Valeria Lipovetsky<\/p>\n

Another sentiment echoed across creators was trusting that they know best what resonates with their audience. Instead of handing over a strict brief, make it a conversation with the influencer, which means having a direct line of communication with them versus multiple middlemen like agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two additional, highly tactical pieces of advice \u2013 (1) when an influencer you\u2019ve hired tags you as a collaborator on a post, make sure you accept it so it gets promoted across your channels too, and 2) make sure to interact with the comments on the post. You\u2019d be surprised by how many brands drop the ball on one or both of these.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taken together, the conversations at POSSIBLE point to a broader shift: marketing is becoming more decentralized, more personality-driven, and more dependent on trust than ever before. As creators continue to evolve into full-fledged media businesses, the brands that win will be the ones that learn how to partner, not control.<\/p>\n

At the same time, POSSIBLE\u2019s continued growth in Miami reflects something bigger happening locally. The city is increasingly positioning itself as a hub for media, marketing, and creator-driven innovation \u2014 where the future of how brands connect with audiences is not just discussed, but actively shaped.<\/p>\n

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\"Maria<\/a> <\/p>\n

Maria Derchi Russo is Executive Director of Refresh Miami and VP of Platform & Community at Florida Funders. She is also the founder of Women in Miami Tech and co-host of the Miami Tech Pod.<\/p>\n

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