Digital influencers, Generation Z and the salvation of sport

Digital influencers are able to build authentic and engaging connections with Generation Z. It is unquestionable and proven that these figures can foster the interest of young people in specific subjects, which previously could not be a priority in a conversation wheel with this audience. One of them was especially visible in recent days: the sport.

The recent transformation of sport, from uninteresting to something “cool” for this generation born until the early 2010s, is due to the obligation that media outlets felt to adapt. The rise of digital influencers coupled with the power of social networks has made these profiles become powerful to reach this layer of the population and make them more interested in sports issues. To achieve visibility on topics like this, today it is necessary to create a more intimate and authentic connection with the young audience, and this is where influencers come into play.

Conducting interviews, coverage of games and interactive content, digital influencers have become a powerful weapon of marketing, which generated a strong integration of media during the last Olympic games. This was not an alternative to attract the younger audience to this type of programming, but rather, the only way to achieve the result.

In a three-day interval, CazeTV, a sports communication vehicle at the helm of YouTuber and host Casimiro Miguel, had to publish two different posts: one celebrating the reach of 7 million followers on Instagram and another, then about the reach of 8 million. The page gained 1 million fans in a range of just under three days and shared the bread, performing “mutirons” for athletes also expand their reach.

Beatriz Souza was the main. The sportswoman, gold medal in judo, went from 14 thousand followers to more than 2.5 million in less than 12 hours. The result is the result of one of the initiatives of CazeTV, which by inserting influencers and a language more “discontinued to cover the olympics, won as a loyal audience Generation Z and, in parallel, reached a thunderous engagement in social networks, which splashed on the athletes released by the channel. Generation Z wants to follow everything closely and that is exactly what digital platforms provide.

The brands, in turn, also followed the trend of the importance of influencers and Generation Z to boost sports initiatives. Rayssa Leal, Olympic medalist in the Skate Street modality at the Olympics and social media icon for young audiences, arrived in Paris with 13 sponsors, among them Louis Vuitton, where she was the first Brazilian to establish herself as a global ambassador of the brand.

With successful campaigns by influencers during games, this strategy only tends to last. Companies should continue to support profiles that can influence public opinion, just as the media will invite the same people to share content.

It will be impossible to disentangle the potential of these figures with the realization of games and sporting events, and to achieve this audience in the case of other relevant matters, and that deserve due interest, it is enough to “surfar on the” wave.