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Gymshark paid influencers to look unpaid — a lawsuit says that's the whole strategy
A New York class action says Gymshark paid influencers while hiding it, so buyers believed they were seeing genuine preference rather than paid posts.
Gymshark · 2026-06-16
怎么回事
On 16 June 2026, Mihaela Lupea filed a proposed class action against Gymshark USA in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. She said she bought Gymshark leggings after seeing posts from fitness influencers Whitney Simmons, with about 4 million followers, and Annabel Lucinda, with about 3.4 million.
The complaint alleges Gymshark paid hundreds of fitness influencers to promote its products while instructing, or at minimum encouraging, them to skip the paid-promotion disclosures required by the FTC's Endorsement Guides. It frames the company's 'core marketing strategy' as built on the illusion that ordinary people and fitness professionals genuinely preferred the brand, when the preference was purchased.
Lupea claims she would not have bought the products, or would have paid less, had she known the endorsements were paid — bringing the claim under New York's General Business Law §349, which bars deceptive business practices. The case is one of a wider 2025–2026 wave of similar suits against Celsius, Shein, Revolve, Alo Yoga and Beach Bunny over undisclosed influencer marketing.
为什么会这样
- Paid promotion reads as organic enthusiasm only if the payment stays hidden, so the strategy depended on influencers not doing the one thing FTC rules require them to do.
- Using influencers with millions of followers multiplied the reach of each undisclosed post, meaning the same disclosure gap that might pass unnoticed once was repeated at scale.
- The same pattern recurring at multiple brands shows it was treated as standard influencer-marketing practice, not an isolated lapse — turning complaints into a litigation wave.
教训
An endorsement's value to a buyer depends on knowing whether it was paid for. Skipping the disclosure doesn't remove the payment — it hides the one fact that changes what a viewer believes.
后来呢
The suit joined a broader run of 2025–2026 consumer class actions targeting the same disclosure gap across retail and fitness brands, pushing marketing and legal teams to treat influencer-agreement disclosure language as enforceable rather than boilerplate.
资料来源
- Benesch Law — Influencer Marketing Under Fire: Gymshark Sued In New Class Action As Plaintiffs Target Undisclosed Paid Endorsements
- The Fashion Law — Gymshark Pulled into Growing Influencer Marketing Litigation Wave
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