Influencer marketing: contemporary theory and practice on the Czech market

This bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of influencers and influencer marketing in the Czech Republic. Its goal is to define the theoretical framework of influencer marketing and then verify whether the practice corresponds to the defined theoretical framework. First, the work discusses public relations, propaganda, the two-level model of communication, and opinion leaders. Subsequently, influencer and influencer marketing are defined, social networks are introduced and statistics of Czech users on the internet and social networks is defined. In the last part, the work is focused on the analysis of academic works younger than four years in order to keep the topic up-to- date. Findings from the analysis of academic papers are then compared with examples of influencer marketing on the Instagram.