Jiiraffe Was Founded by Award-Winning Marketing Experts at Starbucks
From two guys and three girls around a Starbucks Coffee table, to a leading social media and influencer marketing agency…Founded in 2014 by influencers, we're Jiiraffe, originators of social and influencer marketing. A Cape Town, Germany and Los Angeles based agency helping local and international brands penetrate the local markets.
Our Story
Our Story
Before 2014, our team worked at big businesses including Takealot, Estée Lauder, Amazon, and others. Our jobs were to create strategies that used traditional marketing tools like billboards, newspapers, and radio advertising. But we noticed that more people were switching over to the internet and we were no longer getting the results our executives wanted using only traditional marketing methods.
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We had to act fast and think of ways to achieve the growth our executives wanted. Our research showed us a growing number of people who were using the internet were also following influencers on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. We wondered if we could create a strategy that leveraged the power that the influencers had over people. We spent millions on advertising spend to test out these modern strategies using influencer marketing tactics and it worked, driving huge return on investment and acquisition. In 2014, we quit our jobs to package these same strategies to help the local and international businesses effectively compete in the market.
Since then, we’ve been at the forefront of the modern marketing industry.
Since 2014, we have tracked how over 102K influencers perform in different industries and managed over 326k pieces of user-generated content, building an unparalleled set of data and insights.
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Some of the world's most exciting brands have partnered with Jiiraffe to create award-winning digital, social, influencer, and traditional campaigns across the globe.
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This has enabled us to grow to 50+ employees and open offices in the USA, Germany and South Africa. Our expertise goes beyond just influencer marketing into a full-service social media marketing agency including social media strategy, paid social media, content production, social media management across all the main platforms including TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.
Where We Are in 2024
WHY BRANDS LOVE WORKING WITH US
$345.7 Million
Ad Spend Managed by Jiiraffe
$2.97 Billion
Return on Investment
12.75K
101.5K
Social Media Posts