The Menu - What's On The Table for the Next 12-18 MonthsThe Media Kitchen
Each year, we release The Menu, a thought piece about the next 12-18 months in the marketing and advertising world. We highlight trends and insights as well, as, a few companies we feel are doing really interesting things.
Social@ogilvy Google Hummingbird POV - October 2013Ogilvy Consulting
On September 26, 2013, Google announced that it had developed a new search algorithm called Hummingbird. Prior to this, Google hadn’t made a significant change to its search algorithm in 12 years.
This POV briefly summarizes Google’s new Hummingbird search algorithm and provides insight into how brands can use this new tool in their campaigns.
The new search algorithm is in response to two key insights made by Google:
1. More people are searching using whole phrases, rather than two or three words.
2. More people are searching on their mobile devices.
By understanding how Hummingbird works, brands can leverage this new search algorithm to create content that will be relevant to users and appear at the top of the suggested results list.
Why You Should Adopt A Mobile-First Mindset in 2016Happy Marketer
Being "Mobile-First" is one of the most popular buzzwords in the Digital Marketing circles at the moment, but do you really understand what it could mean to you and your business?
Through this SlideShare, understand what it means to be truly "Mobile-First" and why it is important that you should adopt this mind-set immediately!
Driving Traffic to Your Mobile Apps & SitesDMIMarketing
Many Brands, Businesses and Mobile Developers make the mistake of developing and launching their apps without planning how to reach their target audience.
The Menu - What's On The Table for the Next 12-18 MonthsThe Media Kitchen
Each year, we release The Menu, a thought piece about the next 12-18 months in the marketing and advertising world. We highlight trends and insights as well, as, a few companies we feel are doing really interesting things.
Social@ogilvy Google Hummingbird POV - October 2013Ogilvy Consulting
On September 26, 2013, Google announced that it had developed a new search algorithm called Hummingbird. Prior to this, Google hadn’t made a significant change to its search algorithm in 12 years.
This POV briefly summarizes Google’s new Hummingbird search algorithm and provides insight into how brands can use this new tool in their campaigns.
The new search algorithm is in response to two key insights made by Google:
1. More people are searching using whole phrases, rather than two or three words.
2. More people are searching on their mobile devices.
By understanding how Hummingbird works, brands can leverage this new search algorithm to create content that will be relevant to users and appear at the top of the suggested results list.
Why You Should Adopt A Mobile-First Mindset in 2016Happy Marketer
Being "Mobile-First" is one of the most popular buzzwords in the Digital Marketing circles at the moment, but do you really understand what it could mean to you and your business?
Through this SlideShare, understand what it means to be truly "Mobile-First" and why it is important that you should adopt this mind-set immediately!
Driving Traffic to Your Mobile Apps & SitesDMIMarketing
Many Brands, Businesses and Mobile Developers make the mistake of developing and launching their apps without planning how to reach their target audience.
6 Recommendations For Static Banner AdsJanuary Kohli
6 recommendations & some sample banner ads.
This presentation features some basic tips for better static banner ads. Animated gif ads and flash ads provide more real estate to deliver your message, but these little guys... well, they are a little different.
In today’s connected culture, earning and maintaining attention is hard.
Funnels and channels are out of date and irrelevant. Digital is no longer about reach or exposure. Or, it is, but not just about that. Reach is the beginning. Digital success is all about ‘what’s next.’
Building relationships is about humanity: People respond to being asked for help.. It’s no longer about attention or loyalty, its about a shared sense of purpose. From Tom’s to Patagonia, mission is key.
Caleb Gardner, Digital Director of Organizing For Action, is strategist behind President Obama’s digital relationship-building operation. He joins Barefoot Proximity’s strategist Craig Heimbuch for a discussion about the nature of relationships between people and brands and why digital success means behaving more like humans than marketers.
1. How should marketers and movements think about strategy in today’s digital climate? Do traditional funnels and channel thinking still matter?
2. Why is asking for help more important than offering something for free? And how does digital ubiquity make it easier to create real relationships at scale?
3. Why does reach matter less than depth? How can brands and movements benefit from the thinking that 60M followers don’t matter?
Find out the answer to these questions in BBDO + Proximity's presentation, "Human Nature @Scale."
Social Media is one of the most effective communication and advertising channels. But
cutting through the noise can be challenging, and often, marketers must use paid social
marketing strategies to amplify their message in social platforms.
Social Squared presents 21 ideas that changed marketing forever.
These ideas have shaped not only changed the brand marketers's approach, they have transformed our culture too.
Please feel free to share.
12 Exciting New Ways of Advertising for Publishers (Or: What Will Replace the...Soda studio
Display ads are by far the biggest source of income for online publishers. There’s the medium rectangle, half-page, leaderboard, and possibly hundreds of more obscure types.
But, while digital ad incomes are huge online conversion rates are dropping. (For example: 8% of the users account for 85% of clicks on banners, the average click-through rate of display ads is 0.1%.)
What’s going wrong here?
The biggest problem is that display banners are often obtrusive and don’t enhance or integrate with the overall experience well enough.
‘Sad’ news: the display banner as we know it is nearing the end of its life span
However, many advertisers, together with publishers, are rethinking online branding, let’s take a look at 12 exciting concepts for online advertising.
Contains advertising concepts by / found on Forbes, Quartz, The Next Web, Vox (Polygon), De Volkskrant, NRC, Time, WeTransfer, AdGibbon, GlobalMoxie, Google, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, FIFA app, De Correspondent & more!
-- Photography sources --
"Ruler" by Scott Akerman, some rights reserved (2010)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sterlic/4299631538
"Crochet Eyeball" by Net, all rights reserved (2008)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/quoin/2815208617
"Falling Jellyfish" by Joe Flood, some rights reserved (2006)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeflood/84125419
"Draining Again" by darkday, some rights reserved (2014)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drainrat/14017447697
"Pack" by Nick, all rights reserved (2012)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blank_canvas_photograpy/8154329078
Paid media
Search engine marketing
Display advertisement
Social media advertisement
Campaign planning
Cookies
Display banner
Video display ad
Text link advertisement
Mobile advertisement
Gamification
Video games
Native advertising
Instagram
Ephemeral content
How to use hashtags
Run contests
Shoppable tags
Influencers
How to find influencers
The use of emojis
Lead magnet
#69Predictions Marketing Experts Share for 2016Bryan Kramer
It’s that time of year again. A time to take what we’ve learned and figure out how to plan for big marketing wins in 2016. Since each year is different with a new set of challenges, we tapped into the world’s top industry leaders to tell you their own predictions for next year in helping you to think through your own marketing initiatives.
In this presentation and workshop Cyber-Duck take delegates through building blocks of developing a user centric brand and marketing strategy and introduce exciting new marketing channels such as artificial intelligence, bots, micro-moments and SEO as well as virtual and augmented reality. The presentation is concluded by exploring the importance of data and analytics.
Are you ready for the Social Media Trends 2018? Each year, we ask the top influencers in digital marketing and PR to give us their take on what's going to shape the industry in the coming year. Now in the fourth year, our series looks at some of the top trends that will get marketers and PR professionals talking!
This is the second annual instalment of our January "success" seminar.
I came up with the idea last year when I wanted to do something a little different in a seminar and asked myself the question "If I had an hour to tell some friends about the best current opportunities in web marketing, what would I talk about?"
We had great feedback at the Seminar and if I can find the time I'll create a screencast of the slides and put the whole presentation online.
These slides are not "complete" without the presentation, but you may find them of interest if you're interested in seeing what sort of opportunities excite someone who's now been in the industry for 12 years!
Digital Marketing Trend 2019-20 - Digi elephant Digital Marketing AgencyTusshar Aggarwal
Digital marketing has seen phenomenal growth in the last decade, and it continues to keep growing. Several new trends and innovations have started emerging in this field, and it is essential to keep track of them to plan our businesses accordingly.
6 Recommendations For Static Banner AdsJanuary Kohli
6 recommendations & some sample banner ads.
This presentation features some basic tips for better static banner ads. Animated gif ads and flash ads provide more real estate to deliver your message, but these little guys... well, they are a little different.
In today’s connected culture, earning and maintaining attention is hard.
Funnels and channels are out of date and irrelevant. Digital is no longer about reach or exposure. Or, it is, but not just about that. Reach is the beginning. Digital success is all about ‘what’s next.’
Building relationships is about humanity: People respond to being asked for help.. It’s no longer about attention or loyalty, its about a shared sense of purpose. From Tom’s to Patagonia, mission is key.
Caleb Gardner, Digital Director of Organizing For Action, is strategist behind President Obama’s digital relationship-building operation. He joins Barefoot Proximity’s strategist Craig Heimbuch for a discussion about the nature of relationships between people and brands and why digital success means behaving more like humans than marketers.
1. How should marketers and movements think about strategy in today’s digital climate? Do traditional funnels and channel thinking still matter?
2. Why is asking for help more important than offering something for free? And how does digital ubiquity make it easier to create real relationships at scale?
3. Why does reach matter less than depth? How can brands and movements benefit from the thinking that 60M followers don’t matter?
Find out the answer to these questions in BBDO + Proximity's presentation, "Human Nature @Scale."
Social Media is one of the most effective communication and advertising channels. But
cutting through the noise can be challenging, and often, marketers must use paid social
marketing strategies to amplify their message in social platforms.
Social Squared presents 21 ideas that changed marketing forever.
These ideas have shaped not only changed the brand marketers's approach, they have transformed our culture too.
Please feel free to share.
12 Exciting New Ways of Advertising for Publishers (Or: What Will Replace the...Soda studio
Display ads are by far the biggest source of income for online publishers. There’s the medium rectangle, half-page, leaderboard, and possibly hundreds of more obscure types.
But, while digital ad incomes are huge online conversion rates are dropping. (For example: 8% of the users account for 85% of clicks on banners, the average click-through rate of display ads is 0.1%.)
What’s going wrong here?
The biggest problem is that display banners are often obtrusive and don’t enhance or integrate with the overall experience well enough.
‘Sad’ news: the display banner as we know it is nearing the end of its life span
However, many advertisers, together with publishers, are rethinking online branding, let’s take a look at 12 exciting concepts for online advertising.
Contains advertising concepts by / found on Forbes, Quartz, The Next Web, Vox (Polygon), De Volkskrant, NRC, Time, WeTransfer, AdGibbon, GlobalMoxie, Google, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, FIFA app, De Correspondent & more!
-- Photography sources --
"Ruler" by Scott Akerman, some rights reserved (2010)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sterlic/4299631538
"Crochet Eyeball" by Net, all rights reserved (2008)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/quoin/2815208617
"Falling Jellyfish" by Joe Flood, some rights reserved (2006)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeflood/84125419
"Draining Again" by darkday, some rights reserved (2014)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drainrat/14017447697
"Pack" by Nick, all rights reserved (2012)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blank_canvas_photograpy/8154329078
Paid media
Search engine marketing
Display advertisement
Social media advertisement
Campaign planning
Cookies
Display banner
Video display ad
Text link advertisement
Mobile advertisement
Gamification
Video games
Native advertising
Instagram
Ephemeral content
How to use hashtags
Run contests
Shoppable tags
Influencers
How to find influencers
The use of emojis
Lead magnet
#69Predictions Marketing Experts Share for 2016Bryan Kramer
It’s that time of year again. A time to take what we’ve learned and figure out how to plan for big marketing wins in 2016. Since each year is different with a new set of challenges, we tapped into the world’s top industry leaders to tell you their own predictions for next year in helping you to think through your own marketing initiatives.
In this presentation and workshop Cyber-Duck take delegates through building blocks of developing a user centric brand and marketing strategy and introduce exciting new marketing channels such as artificial intelligence, bots, micro-moments and SEO as well as virtual and augmented reality. The presentation is concluded by exploring the importance of data and analytics.
Are you ready for the Social Media Trends 2018? Each year, we ask the top influencers in digital marketing and PR to give us their take on what's going to shape the industry in the coming year. Now in the fourth year, our series looks at some of the top trends that will get marketers and PR professionals talking!
This is the second annual instalment of our January "success" seminar.
I came up with the idea last year when I wanted to do something a little different in a seminar and asked myself the question "If I had an hour to tell some friends about the best current opportunities in web marketing, what would I talk about?"
We had great feedback at the Seminar and if I can find the time I'll create a screencast of the slides and put the whole presentation online.
These slides are not "complete" without the presentation, but you may find them of interest if you're interested in seeing what sort of opportunities excite someone who's now been in the industry for 12 years!
Digital Marketing Trend 2019-20 - Digi elephant Digital Marketing AgencyTusshar Aggarwal
Digital marketing has seen phenomenal growth in the last decade, and it continues to keep growing. Several new trends and innovations have started emerging in this field, and it is essential to keep track of them to plan our businesses accordingly.
Leverage Visual Storytelling to Win More LeadsJomer Gregorio
Utilize the captivating power of visual storytelling to transform your lead generation strategy. Explore this presentation to learn how to use the art of visual storytelling to captivate your audience and generate more leads.
Full blog here - https://digitalmarketingphilippines.com/leverage-visual-storytelling-to-win-more-leads-infographic/
28 ways your digital marketing consultant can rock your 2017 effortsKarolin Bierbrauer
Digital marketing consultants are multi-talents in promoting your business. Here are some ideas how they can push your business even more.
Check out the full blog post here:
https://www.searchoptimization.ninja/28-ways-digital-marketing-consultant-can-rock-your-2017-efforts
Why content is vital for your brand's survival in 2022 | CONTENT CLINIQCONTENT CLINIQ
𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗸𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗱.
Whether your brand is big or small, consistently creating and publishing digital content is vital to your brand's survival in 2022.
To regularly create high-quality content, you need time, resources, and a budget.
Here are three primary methods of content creation:
1. Creating every piece of content internally with no help from the outside world.
2. Outsourcing 100% of content creation.
3. Practising a blend of internal and external content creation.
While brands can entirely rely on their internal creative workforce in some cases, businesses worldwide are increasingly outsourcing content creation to a proficient partner like CONTENT CLINIQ.
Based on your needs, we offer you well-researched, professionally written, and visually stunning on-brand video, audio, visual, and written content as an à la carte service or monthly.
Whether you want to increase sales, build brand awareness or educate your audience, we create amazing content, copy, and visual media to help you do it.
In this slide deck, you'll discover the latest content marketing trends, insightful research and actionable tips to help grow your business in 2022.
For more details, visit www.contentcliniq.com today.
The experts have weighed in. We’ve got 21 predictions related to social media, content marketing, online marketing and SEO from some of the biggest (or most insightful) names in the business.
The experts have weighed in. We’ve got 21 predictions related to social media, content marketing, online marketing and SEO from some of the biggest (or most insightful) names in the business.
Advertising & Marketing Trends 2014 | Marketing Private Schools and Summer CampsOur Kids Media
Marketing tips and marketing trends for privates schools, summer camps and kids programs about marketing to moms in Canada. [Our Kid Marketing Academy, Lunch & Learn, November 2013, Presented by Agnes Stawicki]
Where To Spend Your Marketing Budget - Social media Vs WebsiteXpand Marketing
Social media Vs your website:
Where should you be investing in 2023?
Presented by:
• Jag Panesar
• Danni Johnson
Discover:
• How your audience are using social media and Google to find your business.
• Future predictions for social media in the B2B arena.
• Future predictions for websites and SEO in the B2B arena.
• How to decide where to invest your budget.
• Useful tools
https://xpandmarketing.co.uk/
Within this special edition of The SoDA Report, industry leaders brainstorm and discuss creative opportunities for programmatic native advertising. How can marketers, agencies, and publishers build better creative designs that mesh well with their content experiences? How can we be creative in a world that is component-based? Authors from Fancy Pants Group, Voltage, Big Spaceship and Google share real-life examples of challenges, modifications, successes and tools to continue the conversation of creating compelling digital creative.
Digital Advertising is the practice of delivering promotional content to users through various online and digital channels. A practical insight into advertising in the digital space
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Your Path to YouTube Stardom Starts HereSocioCosmos
Skyrocket your YouTube presence with Sociocosmos' proven methods. Gain real engagement and build a loyal audience. Join us now.
https://www.sociocosmos.com/product-category/youtube/
The Evolution of SEO: Insights from a Leading Digital Marketing AgencyDigital Marketing Lab
Explore the latest trends in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and discover how modern practices are transforming business visibility. This document delves into the shift from keyword optimization to user intent, highlighting key trends such as voice search optimization, artificial intelligence, mobile-first indexing, and the importance of E-A-T principles. Enhance your online presence with expert insights from Digital Marketing Lab, your partner in maximizing SEO performance.
This tutorial presentation offers a beginner-friendly guide to using THREADS, Instagram's messaging app. It covers the basics of account setup, privacy settings, and explores the core features such as close friends lists, photo and video sharing, creative tools, and status updates. With practical tips and instructions, this tutorial will empower you to use THREADS effectively and stay connected with your close friends on Instagram in a private and engaging way.
Grow Your Reddit Community Fast.........SocioCosmos
Sociocosmos helps you gain Reddit followers quickly and easily. Build your community and expand your influence.
https://www.sociocosmos.com/product-category/reddit/
Telegram is a messaging platform that ushers in a new era of communication. Available for Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux, Telegram offers simplicity, privacy, synchronization across devices, speed, and powerful features. It allows users to create their own stickers with a user-friendly editor. With robust encryption, Telegram ensures message security and even offers self-destructing messages. The platform is open, with an API and source code accessible to everyone, making it a secure and social environment where groups can accommodate up to 200,000 members. Customize your messenger experience with Telegram's expressive features.
Project Serenity is an innovative initiative aimed at transforming urban environments into sustainable, self-sufficient communities. By integrating green architecture, renewable energy, smart technology, sustainable transportation, and urban farming, Project Serenity seeks to minimize the ecological footprint of cities while enhancing residents' quality of life. Key components include energy-efficient buildings, IoT-enabled resource management, electric and autonomous transportation options, green spaces, and robust waste management systems. Emphasizing community engagement and social equity, Project Serenity aspires to serve as a global model for creating eco-friendly, livable urban spaces that harmonize modern conveniences with environmental stewardship.
Surat Digital Marketing School is created to offer a complete course that is specifically designed as per the current industry trends. Years of experience has helped us identify and understand the graduate-employee skills gap in the industry. At our school, we keep up with the pace of the industry and impart a holistic education that encompasses all the latest concepts of the Digital world so that our graduates can effortlessly integrate into the assigned roles.
This is the place where you become a Digital Marketing Expert.
Improving Workplace Safety Performance in Malaysian SMEs: The Role of Safety ...AJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT: In the Malaysian context, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) experience a significant
burden of workplace accidents. A consensus among scholars attributes a substantial portion of these incidents to
human factors, particularly unsafe behaviors. This study, conducted in Malaysia's northern region, specifically
targeted Safety and Health/Human Resource professionals within the manufacturing sector of SMEs. We
gathered a robust dataset comprising 107 responses through a meticulously designed self-administered
questionnaire. Employing advanced partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) techniques
with SmartPLS 3.2.9, we rigorously analyzed the data to scrutinize the intricate relationship between safety
behavior and safety performance. The research findings unequivocally underscore the palpable and
consequential impact of safety behavior variables, namely safety compliance and safety participation, on
improving safety performance indicators such as accidents, injuries, and property damages. These results
strongly validate research hypotheses. Consequently, this study highlights the pivotal significance of cultivating
safety behavior among employees, particularly in resource-constrained SME settings, as an essential step toward
enhancing workplace safety performance.
KEYWORDS :Safety compliance, safety participation, safety performance, SME
Your LinkedIn Success Starts Here.......SocioCosmos
In order to make a lasting impression on your sector, SocioCosmos provides customized solutions to improve your LinkedIn profile.
https://www.sociocosmos.com/product-category/linkedin/
EASY TUTORIAL OF HOW TO USE G-TEAMS BY: FEBLESS HERNANEFebless Hernane
Using Google Teams (G-Teams) is simple. Start by opening the Google Teams app on your phone or visiting the G-Teams website on your computer. Sign in with your Google account. To join a meeting, click on the link shared by the organizer or enter the meeting code in the "Join a Meeting" section. To start a meeting, click on "New Meeting" and share the link with others. You can use the chat feature to send messages and the video button to turn your camera on or off. G-Teams makes it easy to connect and collaborate with others!
Exploring The Dimensions and Dynamics of Felt Obligation: A Bibliometric Anal...AJHSSR Journal
ABSTARCT: This study presents, to our knowledge, the first bibliometric analysis focusing on the concept of
"felt obligation," examining 120 articles published between 1986 and 2024. The aim of the study is to deepen our
understanding of the existing knowledge in the field of "felt obligation" and to provide guidance for further
research. The analysis is centered around the authors, countries, institutions, and keywords of the articles. The
findings highlight prominent researchers in this field, leading universities, and influential journals. Particularly,
it is identified that China plays a leading role in "felt obligation" research. The analysis of keywords emphasizes
the thematic focuses of these studies and provides a roadmap for future research. Finally, various
recommendations are presented to deepen the knowledge in this area and promote applied research. This study
serves as a foundation to expand and advance the understanding of "felt obligation" in the field.
KEYWORDS: Felt Obligation, Bibliometric Analysis, Research Trends
Buy Pinterest Followers, Reactions & Repins Go Viral on Pinterest with Socio...SocioCosmos
Get more Pinterest followers, reactions, and repins with Sociocosmos, the leading platform to buy all kinds of Pinterest presence. Boost your profile and reach a wider audience.
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This tutorial presentation provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Facebook, the popular social media platform. In simple and easy-to-understand language, this presentation explains how to create a Facebook account, connect with friends and family, post updates, share photos and videos, join groups, and manage privacy settings. Whether you're new to Facebook or just need a refresher, this presentation will help you navigate the features and make the most of your Facebook experience.
Unlock TikTok Success with Sociocosmos..SocioCosmos
Discover how Sociocosmos can boost your TikTok presence with real followers and engagement. Achieve your social media goals today!
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1. Key Trends in Digital Marketing for the coming year 2014
Digital Exceeds traditional marketing budget !!
An identity based Eco-System : We as humans , have always had an intimate need to express
ourselves.By that very expression we further our identity.Awesomly Smart companies like
Facebook (Time-line), Amazon(Personilized Recommendations) are already taking advantage to
what I am calling as an Identity based Eco-System. The ever growing Digital world of tommorow
be it businness , or consumer will revolve around individual identity .The
one’s(COMPANIEESSSS) who take advantage of this trend will create ways to harness the
concept that showcasing our identity is the MOST HUMAN & PRIMARY OF DESIRES.
CCA(Content Curation & Aggression ) : If you recall you’ve got mail (It’s a hollywood Movie) ,
you can never re-create the movie . Why? No one is excited to receive an e-mail anymore!! We
have moved on from being an information hungry society , to an information overload society.
But We do need information –New Information every single day !!That is the main reason we
see the rise of website’s such as quora, pintrest ,Lisst.ly,Visual.ly to name a few.Pintrest is
basically nothing but an organization system for images that already exists on the web , but WE
need that system for aggregation , it’s a full on success.
VIDEO(bedio)=Device Agnostic !! : Do you frankly remember tha last time you said – “ I am
watching a video on the television”, now you must be watching them on ur phone, phablet,
tablet , smart phone. Video continues to become device agnostic!Now from a business POV
Online Video will continue to play a bigger role in the digital SPACE.
Multi-Screen Revolution : Super bowl , the most amazing & Innovative event , actually defined
the multi-screen revolution perfectly.While people watched the game on their TV , they were
checking on the office mails on the computer , tweeting about the game on their tablets and
smart phone’s,& texting their friend’s at the same time.The number of screens we use will only
increase on time. Now when I Say screen I am not reffering to a Glass Solid thingy, even google
glass for that matter qualifies (just).So Any surface you can interact with can be considered as a
screen. Hence looking for innovations in advertising as the number of screens increase will grow
drastically.
2. SOCIAL LITERACY IS A MUST : Social Literacy will be a mandate by companies when considering
candidates for any position. It would expand beyond the understanding of the global available
social platforms to make the vast digital landscape a vital part of your proffessional repertoire.
As a Skill Set , Social literacy can be furthe segmented into 2 parts- organizational & Personal.On
the Organizational level – In the thought of strategy , the sheer ability to aggregate &
understand multiple points of data for decision making & Hardcore authentication will be
required. On the Personal Level- people will/should know how to create content , curate
relevant information(cause we love Information as human’s),& To connect people & resources
in the best possible manner.
A Picture is worth a 1000 words ( I think 1000 is a bit too less) :
The search giant Google , recently released -Authorship, allowing authors to link content they
publish on a specific domain to their Google Plus page and have their picture appear in the
search results.
SoIf you’re blogging, you need to be using this technique as it maximizes visibility, increases
click-through rates and provides a competitive advantage.
The huge growth of Instagram and Pinterest over the past years had further reinforced the fact
that pictures are more engaging. The increased use of info-graphics provides more proof that
image-based content is KEY!!
Articles and blogs with well-placed images that strategically break up text guarantee increased
views. Not only is an image good for increasing interaction, Boom !!It also increases your organic
visibility by using relevant naming conventions alongside the image.
o Take out: If you’re blogging, use Google Authorship and break up your text to hopefully reduce
your word count. In Addition to this Google also uses ‘trust’ as a key metric when ranking pages
for SEO, making Authorship even more important. When thinking about social media, don’t
forget to target image-based sites.
Location-based marketing
o Advanced marketers have been communicating with customers based on their
location for years, more recently via checking in on Foursquare or Facebook, and
previously via proximity technologies such as Bluetooth.PublicWi-fi can be the next
level , provided we have that level of internet penetration in our country!!
o Consumers don’t have to check in for marketers to target them, we can do so based
on their location via GPS. Google does this extremely effectively via AdWords.
Radius targeting allows you to target your advert to customers within a certain
distance from your business.
o Apple the innovation kings have taken this a stage further with iBeacon, an ‘indoor
positioning system’ enabling an advertiser to tailor messaging to a customer based
on where they are in your shop, office, stadium etc. The options nevertheless are
totally endless, from informing customers in which aisle to find a product to providing
navigational advice to their seat in auditorium, office .
o The real power is when you overlay this technology with demographic and customer
information. Not only do we now know where this customer is but we know who they
are and what they like, so we can target them more efficiently.
3. Love thy Short :
If you want to connect with audiences, especially the YOUTH, create engaging and bite-sized
stories, heck we all know that.
The growth of Pinterest& its crisp and simple UI proves people want simple.
Google understood this before anyone else – is there a homepage less cluttered or more
uncomplicated than Google’s?
In the year 2014, marketers must be able to tell their story as succinctly as possible.
Now , as consumption of video on mobile devices continues to grow in 2014, short video
storytelling will become paramount. Twitter’s Vine service, which allows users to upload 6.5-7
seconds of video, boasts just under 14 million registered users and has featured as the Apple
app store’s most downloaded app.
This was my short (not so short) take on the key trends in digital marketing for the coming year