Brands and retailers are turning towards influencers as major marketing channels, from Kim Kardashian snapchatting Airbnb accommodations to Cupcakes and Cashmere’s clothing line with Nordstrom to bloggers creating outfits for Corona Light. Influencers are the golden children of marketing strategies right now. Rebecca Minkoff even put influencers front and center in her New York Fashion Week runway show, featuring several popular fashion bloggers—including Chriselle Lim and Arielle Charnas—as models in her Greene Street production.Influencers are the new celebrity endorsements. In fact, data from influencer marketing platform MuseFind shows that 92% of consumers trust an influencer more than an advertisement or traditional celebrity endorsement. With 47% of customers using Adblock technology, traditional digital advertising channels often have limited effectiveness. According to Bloomberg, $255 million is spent on influencer marketing every month. To learn more about how brands and platforms work with influencers, we spoke with Jennifer Li, CEO of MuseFind, and Tom Glazer, President of GiGi New York, a New York City based handbag company.As influencers have taken on a more prominent role in the marketing strategies of brands, several companies have figured out how to get in on the action by creating platforms to foster partnerships between brands and influencers and track the success of the resulting campaigns. MuseFind is one such company. Its mission is “to help brands re-romance their customers through social media influencers,” said Jennifer Li, CEO of MuseFind.“We provide a platform to allow brands to find the most relevant influencer, to broadcast and orchestrate them at scale and to provide a way to be able to know how influencers are performing and how it affects the bottom line,” Li explained. MuseFind has worked on influencer marketing campaigns for brands such as Shiseido, Oreo, Soylent and John Varvatos. Other notable analytics platforms for brands and influencers include Captiv8, TapInfluence, TRIBE, Traackr, Klout, ShopStyle, rewardStyle (creator of LikeToKnowIt) and the recently launched Snapalytics.