In the past, mainstream spectacles like the Met Gala have featured creators, but influencer access has never gone beyond representation in the event.

Alex Consani’s status as a host signals an inflection point in big-stage creator breakthroughs. The Met Gala is the world’s most glamorous fashion showcase. Hosts are responsible for spearheading the night so the numbers reflect the Gala’s reputation.

Alex Consani wasn’t just asked to come. She was entrusted with the Met Gala’s success.

The hire is not about reach.

The obvious read is that Ramp is investing in marketing. 

The precise read is that Ramp is building the content to own the conversation around its customers and what they care about before any competitor does. 

The company processes over $100 billion in annualized spend and publishes the Ramp AI Index tracking AI spend across its customer base. 

No trade publication has access to that data. A Ramp-owned media operation can produce content nobody else can produce, sourced from intelligence nobody else has. 

The hire is not about reach. It’s about becoming the primary reference point for finance B2B at the intersection of technology and culture.

Interesting enough, this isn’t the only move that tech is doing for content. Google search traffic to publishers dropped 33 percent globally in the year to November 2025. 

For smaller publishers, referral traffic declined 60 percent over two years. Trade publications are closing at a rate that has left coverage vacuums across entire industries. 

The Edelman Trust Barometer found that 80 percent of people trust the brands they use more than they trust media. Gallup put American trust in mass media at 28 percent, a record low. 

The institutions that used to own the conversation have been losing it. Companies like Ramp are not waiting for trade publications to tell their story.

They are building the attention infrastructure to tell it themselves.

LinkedIn is now the second most-cited domain across ChatGPT Search, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. 

For professional queries it is the most cited domain across every major AI platform. Posts from individual profiles receive eight times the engagement of identical content from company pages. Articles between 500 and 2,000 words receive the most AI citations. 

The companies building content operations now are not only reaching human readers. They are building a citation footprint that shapes how AI tools describe their industry. 

Those who establish this presence first will compound the advantage, because AI models reinforce the sources they have already cited. Ramp, with its culture of shipping weekly and iterating fast, is built precisely for this kind of sustained output.