ASTRA Toy Times November 2020

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Lisa Orman, KidStuff Public Relations

I’m starting with our influencer database 22

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uring this time of social unrest and many of us becoming more aware of the systemic racism in our society, I became aware that the group of vetted bloggers and influencers my agency works with are mostly white. I’m not OK with that. This wasn’t by design or by intention, but was the result of basing our decision on whether to work with them largely on the number of Followers, Likes and Comments their channels and posts had. Eyeballs, people!

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