The word "influencer" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone with the power to affect how people think and act. For example, "The influencer has gained thousands of followers on social media platforms."
So TV is still the biggest influencer for Arnold's team?
But the biggest influencer is the media, which take trend reports and forecasts and serve them up alongside reviews and "food porn" photographs.
Today he is the subject of increasing historical interest and has been variously reconfigured as the true forefather of evolutionary theory, as an exploitative industrial capitalist, as a major influencer of Romantic literature, and as a prescient inventor whose insights included the steering system used in cars.
Al-Sibai was also reportedly a mentor to 'Jihadi John', the Islamic State executioner unmasked as Briton Mohammed Emwazi, and has been described by international terrorism experts as a "key influencer" of the group suspected to be behind the Tunisian beach massacre.
She's a top cultural influencer, particularly among women, with a book club that is followed with cult-like dedication and an annual "favorite things" gift guide.
Dag Vega, who was employed to develop relationships between the media and the President for several years, told The New York Times Stewart was considered a "key influencer" for millennials: "They relied on him for an honest take on the news, and the president and senior staff know that".
The BBC is an influencer that invested millions of pounds in producing a documentary that changed the western world's understanding of two thirds of our planet's ecosystem.
Flea was one of the many artists who paid tribute to his influencer.
A paper, published in 2013 by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in the Hague, names al-Shibai as a "key influencer" of Ansar al-Sharia, the Tunisian Islamist group thought to have radicalised Seifeddine Rezgui, 23, the gunman behind the Sousse beach massacre of 38 people, including 30 British tourists, last month.
"Sometimes, as in the case of Nicola Sturgeon, they will be both the power broker and the influencer.
After 12 years with EMI, including a few running the brand partnerships department, it was time for me to go it alone, so I set up Come Round – an influencer marketing business which sees us put on thousands of parties in the homes of highly-targeted consumers across the country – where the parties are all themed around a client's product.
