Digital marketing refers to marketing products or services using digital technologies, mainly the internet. It began in the 1980s with soft ad campaigns that sent consumers floppy disks with multimedia car content. Digital marketing is now commonly called online marketing, internet marketing, or web marketing. It utilizes techniques like search engine optimization, search engine marketing, content marketing, influencer marketing, and data-driven marketing across platforms like websites, mobile phones, YouTube, Facebook and more. Digital marketing is important because it increases business visibility, helps build brands, easily reaches large online audiences, and gives competitive advantages over traditional local marketing approaches.