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14 Apr

Launchmetrics’ Top 10 Beauty Brands by Media Impact Value

Data from Launchmetrics demonstrates that with regards to media impact value, China and the U.S. are the highest markets driving value for prestige beauty brands, who're maximizing their gains within the regions namely via increasingly fine-tuned influencer strategies. “With China’s loosening of restrictions and the woke up economy, the region is attracting brands to reconnect with their aspirationally driven audiences, thus motivating [brands] to diversify their ambassador portfolios,” said Launchmetrics’ chief marketing officer, Alison Bringé. Launchmetrics’ MIV scoring system assesses the impact of a brand’s relevant media placements across channels, inclusive of paid, owned and earned mediums. While celebrity voices are indeed becoming less influential in propelling brand MIV scores, there have been a number of exceptions to the trend...
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2 Jan

Latest York Fashion Week Got Its Buzz Back, Launchmetrics

Latest York Fashion Week got its mojo back, the media impact of the recent September edition vaulting 145 percent, in line with tabulations by Launchmetrics. All 4 predominant fashion weeks garnered more media impact value for the spring 2023 season than the autumn 2022 shows six months ago because of theatrical runway spectacles, savvy use of celebrities and influencers, and enormous audiences from the Asia Pacific region. Releasing its spring 2023 insights on Wednesday, Launchmetrics said fashion month generated $938.4 million in media impact value or MIV, a scoring system that assigns a monetary value to each post, interaction or article a few brand or event. It highlighted an “emerging trend” of runway moments boasting surprise celebrity appearances, equivalent to Paris Hilton at...
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1 Jan

Consumer Fatigue Is Hitting the Beauty Industry, Launchmetrics Study

PARIS ­— Is consumer fatigue beginning to hit the beauty industry? A latest study by data research and insights company Launchmetrics suggests the reply is “yes” in its latest study, entitled “S1 ’22: Business of Beauty — Top 700 Performers.” That takes under consideration 741 beauty brands, a complete of $12.5 billion in media impact value, or MIV, and three.1 million placements. “While beauty is considered a reasonable luxury in a time of economic uncertainty, there was an increasing concern over consumer fatigue within the sector,” Launchmetrics wrote within the study. “Overall consumer engagement across social media has decreased year-over-year.” Launchmetrics said that while Instagram and YouTube proceed to be the juggernauts in driving reach, they've registered a decline of MIV on-year. Conversely, TikTok...
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6 Sep

Launchmetrics Partners With MAC Cosmetics, Microsoft for Beauty Hackathon

Launchmetrics’ newest initiative seeks to bring the beauty-tech landscape to the fore. The information research and insights company has joined forces with MAC Cosmetics and Microsoft to host a knowledge hackathon from Nov. 17 through Nov. 21, called Beauty Hacks. The competition, which can happen in Microsoft’s Technology Center in Paris, will allow students from France’s top business, engineering and tech schools to research data from Launchmetrics’ proprietary data set with a view to determine easy methods to improve the performance of beauty brands on social media.  “For us, it is sensible to be the middleman between a worldwide technology player like Microsoft and a business like MAC,” said Michael Jaïs, cofounder and chief executive officer of Launchmetrics. “It’s not that common for...
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