What’s up what’s up, everybody? Hello and welcome to RATED I! In this show, we will unravel the true colors, real life dramas, and deepest darkest secrets, of famous people in Philippine internet. Nothing incriminating though! We shall talk to your favorite influencers to get to know them better and see who they really are beyond what we see in social media. My name is Ace Gapuz and I’ll be your host for this show. I am a marketing professional and an entrepreneur, and I’m currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Philippines’ premier influencer marketing company, Blogapalooza. First and foremost, maybe you’re wondering, “Why is the show called ‘Rated I’?” “What does the ‘I’ mean?” Well, the “I” can mean a lot of things like “I” as in I, an individual, representing authenticity and being your true self. “I” can also mean inspiring, invigorating, indispensable, interesting, and — quite predictably — “I” stands for “influencer”, because the people that we will get to know together in this show are all legit influencers, whom I believe we should all admire and look up to. The reason why I felt inspired to put up this podcast is because I’ve been a blogger since 2001. Yes, that’s right, I started in the industry almost 20 years ago and I’ve really seen how this industry has evolved through the years. I’ve seen many people come and go. I’ve seen trends, evolutions, new cultures — safe to say that in the nearly two decades that I’ve been in influencer marketing, I’ve seen a WHOLE LOT. In these times, social media has really changed the way we view and follow people. But of course sometimes when we get all too immersed in the social media universe, we have that tendency to make a sweeping generalization of how a person is like based only on what we see online. Gets niyo? Like, even if we know that not everything we see in social media is real, it’s sort of automatic na for us to make judgments about somebody based on whatever we see in their social media pages. That is the reason why this podcast here — we want to tell real stories of real people, beyond social media. We shall talk to the influencers, pero kwentuhan lang, more of getting to know them and how they are like as real people off the lens of social media and view them in another perspective. I want to be able to help tell stories of individuals that deserve to be legit Rated “I”, because they give so much value, earning them the right to be called an “Influencer”. If you wish to get a glimpse of how the real life of a social media influencer is like, please follow and subscribe to Rated I, available in Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all the podcast apps. It’s also ratedi.podcast in all social networks. All episodes and show notes may be found in my website, acegapuz.com. Sobrang excited ko nang makipagkwentuhan sa mga influencers and really be inspired by their lives and their stories. I’m sure magiging super fun na learning journey ito for all of us, so stay tuned and remember, in Rated I, we aim to #ElevateInfluence. Talk to you guys soon!