Blogosphere: Serious Influence

Today on Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere's founder) speaks to Grace Victory, who won Influencer of the Year at the 2021 Blogosphere Awards. Grace is the cover star of issue 24 of the magazine, which you can order direct through Blogosphere's website here: https://www.blogosphere.biz/shop/issue-24-grace-victory-single-print-edition/

In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Harriet (Harri) Berridge, who is an Intellectual Assets Manager at law firm Stobbs.

In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Natasha Courtenay-Smith, who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bolt Digital. Bolt Digital specialises in accelerating growth of direct to consumer brands across health, lifestyle and beauty. They have worked with the likes of Absolute Collagen, The Inkey List and more.

In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Jessica Paine, who is the Chief Community Officer at SyncVault. SyncVault is a music platform, which rewards creators for using claim-free music on their content. 

In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Gabrielė Palepšaitė, who is the Influencer Marketing Creative Strategy Lead for EMEA and LATAM at cyber security firm Surfshark. Surfshark was founded in 2018 and offers products such as a virtual private network service, a data leak detection system, and a private search tool.

In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Sedge Beswick, who is the Founder and Managing Director of SEEN Connects. As MD and Founder, she has grown the award-winning innovative influencer marketing agency SEEN Connects from the ground up, expanding it internationally. Before setting up Connects and working with brands like Nike, eBay and Panasonic, Sedge shaped Red Bull and ASOS’ social and influencer strategies.

In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Geo West. Geo is an influencer marketing expert with over 12 years' experience in the space. She started her career working for creator Patricia Bright, and subsequently took roles at Benefit Cosmetics, L'Oreal and Charlotte Tilbury. Geo set up her own influencer marketing agency HappyCat, and earlier this year took a position at EA Games as Global Producer of Influencer Creative.

Melanie Kentish is Group Director of Influencers Sky responsible for overseeing Entertainment, Cinema, Kids, Sports, VIP and products. Mel is a veteran in the space with over 15 years experience working in the field and has consulted for many brands such as Samsung, Sony, Nails Inc, Kelloggs, GAP, Rolls-Royce and Boots. Most recently, she’s most well known for the launch of Sky Glass, which saw over 200 creators produce over 3000 pieces of content.

* Uploaded in November 2021. This podcast was recorded pre-Covid in Jan 2020, but was previously available only to Blogosphere Community members. It has some great podcasting tips - and we have now decided to share it here too. In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Emma Gunavardhana, who is a podcaster and broadcaster. Emma launched her podcast ‘The Emma Guns Show’ five years ago, and has had more than four million downloads in the last two. Before becoming a podcaster, Emma spent nearly a decade as Beauty Editor of OK! magazine.

In this week’s episode of Blogosphere: Serious Influence, Alice Audley (Blogosphere’s founder) speaks to Jamie Spafford. Jamie is one of the four founders of Sorted Food, which started as a YouTube channel back in 2009. It has now grown into a 20 plus team and a bonafide business.