Marketing – goes instant, personalised and mobile
What is changing?
Retail
- Retail stores will offer more personalised choices for customers through digital means.
- Digital technologies will be increasingly used to advertise and communicate product information in physical retail stores.
User interaction
- Marketing will become increasingly contextualized based on user data.
- Consumers will generate a vast amount of detailed information and companies are expected to use specialized software to help them in making sense of the data at hand.
- Marketers will find next few years inspiring deep changes in the ways in which consumers interact with online environments.
- Marketing will shift from globalization to personalization.
- Media agencies will be moving from being media-facing to consumer facing.
- People will start being less forthcoming with their personal information online due to privacy/marketing fears.
- Engaging consumers will no longer just be about marketing and communicating to them but will be about connecting and socializing with them.
Content marketing
- Digital marketers will be able to more easily gather and analyze information on the buying habits and locations of consumers.
- Content marketers will be responsible for building engaged high-value audiences and delivering quantifiable business results.
- Distribution and audience growth will be the biggest content marketing buzzwords of 2015.
- Being able to successfully plug content workflow platforms into marketing automation platforms, content management systems, and email service providers will be the most requested need by Q3 2015.
- Action Teams will include value-added technologists and communication/marketing strategists to help design appropriate social media strategies and priority-based educational content and programs.
- Social media and mobile marketing campaigns will track to the newest research-based information, program priorities, key messages and target audiences.
- Journalists will set up LinkedIn searches for leadership roles in content marketing.
Advertising
- Mobile ads are also expected to grow by a smashing 48% in 2015.
- Brands will finally embrace YouTubeas a major network.
- Internet advertising is predicted to rise by 10%.
Implications
Advertising
- Brands are going to start wondering why they're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent an audience instead of building one of their own.
- Advertising trends and the reinvention of advertising as content in digital media could lead to $1 Trillion of the global ad budget shifting to digital within 5 years.
- Marketers will abandon the traditional digital marketing tactics in favor of creating more relevant and inspiring content.
- Social media and mobile marketing campaigns will track to the newest research-based information, program priorities, key messages and target audiences.
- Social media will increasingly be used to establish firm reputation and brand.
Investment
- Gartner believes that a double-digit increase in digital marketing investment will provide supply chain leaders with deeper market insight.
- CMO's will soon be spending more on IT than CIO's.
Crowd-sourcing
- Consumer goods companies that employ crowd-sourced solutions in marketing campaigns or new product development will enjoy a 1 per cent revenue boost over non-crowd-sourced competitors by 2015.
- Sustainability and social responsibility will all have a major influence on the form and scope of future Internet retailing.
Content management
- Marketers will need to be smarter in harnessing and leveraging data.
- Judgments about consumers and potential consumers will be made instantaneously.
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