If you would like to interview me, invite me to speak at your event or provide an expert comment for your publication please get in touch.  

Nana Baah, staff writer at Vice - the lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics magazine - interviewed me for this article titled: 'Influencers and the "fake wealth" industry'. The feature focused on the practice of would-be luxury influencers pretending to have received expensive gifts or travelling on private jets.  The article was later translated into French in January 2021.

Tanith Carey interviewed me for a Daily Mail feature article titled: 'Meet the VIRTUAL Instagrammers: How computer-generated models work with designer brands, earn thousands a day and are adored by millions - to the distress of parenting experts

Roanne de Kluizenaar wrote a feature article tiled:  The Uprise of CGI Influencers: Musings of Armando Kirwin, Artur Muzaffari, and Scott Guthrie for online publication Virtual Humans. The article was an extract from research Roanne undertook as part of her graduate thesis during her time at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in 2019.

Ian Truscott of Rockstar CMO quoted me in an opinion piece for the online publication. The feature article centred on the perils of building a content strategy on a platform that you can not control. 

Influencer Marketing agency, Takumi, asked me to contribute to their wide-reaching white paper titled: 'Into the Mainstream: Influencer Marketing in Society'. The agency was gracious enough to quote me throughout their paper.

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Rivals take advantage of TikTok’s troubles to poach talent

Influencer Marketing agency, Fourth Floor, commissioned me to write about influencer marketing campaigns during Covid-19. The article was titled: 

Influencer marketing is dead. Long live influencer marketing

Influencer Marketing agency, Fourth Floor, commissioned me to write about influencer marketing campaigns during Covid-19. The article was titled: 

The COVID-19 crisis is the real acid test for purpose-driven influencer marketing

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Chefs, DJs, teachers: the rise of the lockdown celebrity. The story was in response to influencers placing community at the centre of their content during Covid-19 lockdown. 

Corp Comms, the magazine for the for the corporate communicator, asked me contribute to the feature article of the February/March edition.  The request came in response to Casper the bed-in-a-box mattress company citing influencers as a risk on their IPO documentation. The article was titled: The Risks of Social Influencers

PR Week sought comment for an article titled: Influencer Marketing: Let's bring full professional rigour to this near-$10bn sector 

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Have we reached ‘peak influencer’?

Lynne Franks was interviewed by PR Week. During the course of the interview Franks was asked for her opinion of influencer marketing. Sufficive to say, Franks is not a fan. The doyenne of PR dismissed influencer marketing as ‘meaningless’, ‘a fad’ and ‘silly’. The following day PR Week published my response to the Franks' article in an OpEd titled: Why Lynne Franks is wrong about influencer marketing

Kate Hartley’s book ‘Communicate in a Crisis’ was published in August by Kogan Page. Kate interviewed me for her book and included verbatim our discussion as a chapter. Harness the crowd: Using influencers and advocates to calm the crisis – an interview with Scott Guthrie

PR database and media monitoring tool provider, Vuelio, asked me to write the introduction to a whitepaper on Instagram titled: Instagram Blackout: How invisible stats will change the world of influencer marketing. The whitepaper has views from industry experts in our network – PRs, agencies, bloggers and influencers – on what these changes really mean and why visible stats might not be the right measurement anyway.

Matthew Field, technology journalist for Telegraph Tech. contacted me for a quote on Samsung’s ill-fated launch of its Galaxy Fold to include in his story titled: Galaxy unfolded: How did Samsung's foldable phone launch go wrong. Field approached me having read my two articles on the incident: Influencer input would have saved Samsung Galaxy Fold screens and Marques Brownlee helps with Samsung Galaxy Fold crisis communications

Carlsberg changed the recipe of its world-famous lager with a tongue-in cheek ad campaign. City A.M contacted me for a quote for an article titled: Carlsberg sparks speculation of new product launch with Twitter marketing campaign “The promoted tweets are a form of postmodern offence archaeology,” said marketing expert Scott Guthrie. “They are looking out for offence and then embracing it, rather than calling it out and shaming.”

CITY A.M., the financial newspaper, asked me to contribute a quote for an article exploring the fall in pricing for celebrity endorsers, and the difference between influencer marketing and celebrity endorsement. The article was titled: Celebrity marketing fees fall by two-thirds in two years amid shift to micro-influencers

Following a BBC Panorama investigation into the use of influencers in the advertising industry online title, Talking Influence asked for quote about the film’s balance and the context of the influencer marketing ecosystem. Article was titled: Industry Responds to BBC Panorama Documentary on Influencer Marketing 

CITY A.M., the financial newspaper, asked me to contribute towards a debate entitled: Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street? Article titled: DEBATE: Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street?

Interviewed by Insurance Post magazine – as regulators are spelling out the rules for influencers advertising services and products, insurers and brokers are starting to adapt their policies to these social media personalities making a living out of their online fame. Article titled: Analysis: Social media - Insuring influencers.

Quoted extensively in an article by the Drum – the marketing and media industries news site. The feature article focused on the differences between celebrity endorsement and influencer marketing. Article titled: Influencer recommendations are not celebrity endorsements

Interviewed by Talking Influence magazine about transparency and disclosure within influencer marketing ahead of the Influencer Marketing Show. Article titled: Q&A: Scott Guthrie on the ASA and Transparency within the Influencer Marketing Channel

Quoted in PR Week alongside the PRCA director general and the president of the CIPR about the need for influencer marketing discipline to mature, the blurred lines between the creative industries and the importance of effectively vetting influencers before working with them on brand activations. Article titled: ‘Blurred lines’ – closing in on the influencer frauds

Wrote a guest post for PR Moment, the PR and communications news and analysis site and awards company. The article covered ways in which PR practitioners can earn better results from their influencer marketing campaigns and help tame the Wild West of influencer marketing. Articled titled: How to gain control of your influencer marketing, from Scott Guthrie

Ian Truscott of Rockstar CMO quoted me in an opinion piece for the online publication. The feature article centred on the perils of building a content strategy on a platform that you can not control. 

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Rivals take advantage of TikTok’s troubles to poach talent

Influencer Marketing agency, Fourth Floor, commissioned me to write about influencer marketing campaigns during Covid-19. The article was titled: 

Influencer marketing is dead. Long live influencer marketing

Influencer Marketing agency, Fourth Floor, commissioned me to write about influencer marketing campaigns during Covid-19. The article was titled: 

The COVID-19 crisis is the real acid test for purpose-driven influencer marketing

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Chefs, DJs, teachers: the rise of the lockdown celebrity. The story was in response to influencers placing community at the centre of their content during Covid-19 lockdown. 

Corp Comms, the magazine for the for the corporate communicator, asked me contribute to the feature article of the February/March edition.  The request came in response to Casper the bed-in-a-box mattress company citing influencers as a risk on their IPO documentation. The article was titled: The Risks of Social Influencers

PR Week sought comment for an article titled: Influencer Marketing: Let's bring full professional rigour to this near-$10bn sector 

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Have we reached ‘peak influencer’?

Lynne Franks was interviewed by PR Week. During the course of the interview Franks was asked for her opinion of influencer marketing. Sufficive to say, Franks is not a fan. The doyenne of PR dismissed influencer marketing as ‘meaningless’, ‘a fad’ and ‘silly’. The following day PR Week published my response to the Franks' article in an OpEd titled: Why Lynne Franks is wrong about influencer marketing

Kate Hartley’s book ‘Communicate in a Crisis’ was published in August by Kogan Page. Kate interviewed me for her book and included verbatim our discussion as a chapter. Harness the crowd: Using influencers and advocates to calm the crisis – an interview with Scott Guthrie

PR database and media monitoring tool provider, Vuelio, asked me to write the introduction to a whitepaper on Instagram titled: Instagram Blackout: How invisible stats will change the world of influencer marketing. The whitepaper has views from industry experts in our network – PRs, agencies, bloggers and influencers – on what these changes really mean and why visible stats might not be the right measurement anyway.

Matthew Field, technology journalist for Telegraph Tech. contacted me for a quote on Samsung’s ill-fated launch of its Galaxy Fold to include in his story titled: Galaxy unfolded: How did Samsung's foldable phone launch go wrong. Field approached me having read my two articles on the incident: Influencer input would have saved Samsung Galaxy Fold screens and Marques Brownlee helps with Samsung Galaxy Fold crisis communications

Carlsberg changed the recipe of its world-famous lager with a tongue-in cheek ad campaign. City A.M contacted me for a quote for an article titled: Carlsberg sparks speculation of new product launch with Twitter marketing campaign “The promoted tweets are a form of postmodern offence archaeology,” said marketing expert Scott Guthrie. “They are looking out for offence and then embracing it, rather than calling it out and shaming.”

CITY A.M., the financial newspaper, asked me to contribute a quote for an article exploring the fall in pricing for celebrity endorsers, and the difference between influencer marketing and celebrity endorsement. The article was titled: Celebrity marketing fees fall by two-thirds in two years amid shift to micro-influencers

Following a BBC Panorama investigation into the use of influencers in the advertising industry online title, Talking Influence asked for quote about the film’s balance and the context of the influencer marketing ecosystem. Article was titled: Industry Responds to BBC Panorama Documentary on Influencer Marketing 

CITY A.M., the financial newspaper, asked me to contribute towards a debate entitled: Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street? Article titled: DEBATE: Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street?

Interviewed by Insurance Post magazine – as regulators are spelling out the rules for influencers advertising services and products, insurers and brokers are starting to adapt their policies to these social media personalities making a living out of their online fame. Article titled: Analysis: Social media - Insuring influencers.

Quoted extensively in an article by the Drum – the marketing and media industries news site. The feature article focused on the differences between celebrity endorsement and influencer marketing. Article titled: Influencer recommendations are not celebrity endorsements

Interviewed by Talking Influence magazine about transparency and disclosure within influencer marketing ahead of the Influencer Marketing Show. Article titled: Q&A: Scott Guthrie on the ASA and Transparency within the Influencer Marketing Channel

Quoted in PR Week alongside the PRCA director general and the president of the CIPR about the need for influencer marketing discipline to mature, the blurred lines between the creative industries and the importance of effectively vetting influencers before working with them on brand activations. Article titled: ‘Blurred lines’ – closing in on the influencer frauds

Wrote a guest post for PR Moment, the PR and communications news and analysis site and awards company. The article covered ways in which PR practitioners can earn better results from their influencer marketing campaigns and help tame the Wild West of influencer marketing. Articled titled: How to gain control of your influencer marketing, from Scott Guthrie

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Rivals take advantage of TikTok’s troubles to poach talent

Influencer Marketing agency, Fourth Floor, commissioned me to write about influencer marketing campaigns during Covid-19. The article was titled: 

Influencer marketing is dead. Long live influencer marketing

Influencer Marketing agency, Fourth Floor, commissioned me to write about influencer marketing campaigns during Covid-19. The article was titled: 

The COVID-19 crisis is the real acid test for purpose-driven influencer marketing

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Chefs, DJs, teachers: the rise of the lockdown celebrity. The story was in response to influencers placing community at the centre of their content during Covid-19 lockdown. 

Corp Comms, the magazine for the for the corporate communicator, asked me contribute to the feature article of the February/March edition.  The request came in response to Casper the bed-in-a-box mattress company citing influencers as a risk on their IPO documentation. The article was titled: The Risks of Social Influencers

PR Week sought comment for an article titled: Influencer Marketing: Let's bring full professional rigour to this near-$10bn sector 

Financial Times journalist, Hannah Murphy asked me to contribute to her article titled: Have we reached ‘peak influencer’?

Lynne Franks was interviewed by PR Week. During the course of the interview Franks was asked for her opinion of influencer marketing. Sufficive to say, Franks is not a fan. The doyenne of PR dismissed influencer marketing as ‘meaningless’, ‘a fad’ and ‘silly’. The following day PR Week published my response to the Franks' article in an OpEd titled: Why Lynne Franks is wrong about influencer marketing

Kate Hartley’s book ‘Communicate in a Crisis’ was published in August by Kogan Page. Kate interviewed me for her book and included verbatim our discussion as a chapter. Harness the crowd: Using influencers and advocates to calm the crisis – an interview with Scott Guthrie

PR database and media monitoring tool provider, Vuelio, asked me to write the introduction to a whitepaper on Instagram titled: Instagram Blackout: How invisible stats will change the world of influencer marketing. The whitepaper has views from industry experts in our network – PRs, agencies, bloggers and influencers – on what these changes really mean and why visible stats might not be the right measurement anyway.

Matthew Field, technology journalist for Telegraph Tech. contacted me for a quote on Samsung’s ill-fated launch of its Galaxy Fold to include in his story titled: Galaxy unfolded: How did Samsung's foldable phone launch go wrong. Field approached me having read my two articles on the incident: Influencer input would have saved Samsung Galaxy Fold screens and Marques Brownlee helps with Samsung Galaxy Fold crisis communications

CITY A.M., the financial newspaper, asked me to contribute a quote for an article exploring the fall in pricing for celebrity endorsers, and the difference between influencer marketing and celebrity endorsement. The article was titled: Celebrity marketing fees fall by two-thirds in two years amid shift to micro-influencers

Following a BBC Panorama investigation into the use of influencers in the advertising industry online title, Talking Influence asked for quote about the film’s balance and the context of the influencer marketing ecosystem. Article was titled: Industry Responds to BBC Panorama Documentary on Influencer Marketing 

CITY A.M., the financial newspaper, asked me to contribute towards a debate entitled: Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street? Article titled: DEBATE: Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street?

Interviewed by Insurance Post magazine – as regulators are spelling out the rules for influencers advertising services and products, insurers and brokers are starting to adapt their policies to these social media personalities making a living out of their online fame. Article titled: Analysis: Social media - Insuring influencers.

Quoted extensively in an article by the Drum – the marketing and media industries news site. The feature article focused on the differences between celebrity endorsement and influencer marketing. Article titled: Influencer recommendations are not celebrity endorsements

Interviewed by Talking Influence magazine about transparency and disclosure within influencer marketing ahead of the Influencer Marketing Show. Article titled: Q&A: Scott Guthrie on the ASA and Transparency within the Influencer Marketing Channel

Quoted in PR Week alongside the PRCA director general and the president of the CIPR about the need for influencer marketing discipline to mature, the blurred lines between the creative industries and the importance of effectively vetting influencers before working with them on brand activations. Article titled: ‘Blurred lines’ – closing in on the influencer frauds