How retailers like Michael Kors are turning Instagram into customer-loyalty vehicles

With its recently relaunched “InstaKors” program, Michael Kors is hacking its Instagram feed to turn its 8.2 million followers into not only customers, but returning customers.

It’s no small task. Despite opening its API and introducing an algorithm-based feed, Instagram still doesn’t allow active links in captions. So retailers, and fashion brands in particular, have been coming up with ways to make the products in its posts easy to find off the platform.

To read the rest of this story, please visit Glossy.

More in Marketing

What brands are paying to advertise around the World Cup

Sponsorships start at around $15 million and go up to $85 million, with some experts calling $25 million the unofficial barrier of entry to appear on Fox.

Why Dove is betting on hundreds of creators for the World Cup

Dove Men is using hundreds of creators for the World Cup while balancing scale, brand safety and AI concerns.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads get its first conversion API partner in LiveRamp

The partnership enables advertisers to connect chatbot ads to real-world purchases for the first time via conversion data.