The Philippines Digital Landscape 2018: With a lot of help from WeAreSocial, Simon Kemp and Hootsuite Team and DigitalMarketingPH. Increasing social media focus, but where's the strategy? Brand awareness/engagement highlights, but stuck with traditional brand-mindset?
12. DIGITAL CHANNELS
SOCIAL MEDIA continues to dominate, but
content marketing, influencer marketing, and
sponsored content are on the rise.
Brands view social media—both paid and organic
— as the most effective digital channel for
marketing, due to the high number of active users,
the enormous amount of time users spend using
the channel, and cost efficiency.
Social media in the Philippines are used for
searching and purchasing products or services by
nearly a third of the population, with Facebook as
the priority medium.
13. POWER OF VIDEOS
VIDEOS lead the way in content
marketing as Filipinos spend more time
on social media and watch videos from
mobile screens.
Global Webb index reports YouTube as the
second most active media platform at 56
percent, topped only by Facebook.
Content marketing is mostly used for
awareness. Eventually, this will shift and
the goal of content marketing will be
more for influencing consideration and
evaluation, because this is where its
strengths lie.
14. WHERE BRANDS SPEND
Marketers spend 21.5 percent of their budget on
digital.
The drivers behind this growth are mostly demographic:
increasing consumerism, an emerging middle class, and
rapid mobile youth penetration.
Digital marketing will be buoyed by improved
technological infrastructure, internet penetration and
broadband speed.
15. BRANDS' MAIN GOALS
Marketers are putting priority on how
customers experience their brands
throughout the customer journey.
Content marketing enhances customer
experience, and is critical in either
strengthening or weakening purchasing
intent, engagement, brand loyalty and brand
advocacy.
NOTABLE is the decreased focus on SEO
and Web traffic initiatives.
17. HOW BRANDS TACKLE CONTENT MARKETING
Most brands do content marketing in-
house.
The benefits of running content marketing in-
house are obvious: It gives brands maximum
control, limits back-and-forth movement within
the team, and provides employees with
opportunities to continuously learn.
BUT THERE ARE CHALLENGES...
18. DIGITAL CHALLENGES
Skills and resources gaps are top content
marketing challenges. Crafting quality
content consistently requires not just the
right mix of resources but also strategic
planning.
What many fail to realize is that content
marketing is a long-term commitment to build
brand reputation, trust, loyalty, and so forth.
And to build this, the costs are not cheap.
And besides funding, they lack skills and
resources, proper tracking or measurements
methods, and digital marketing tools. As there
is no one-size-fits-all formula for return on
investment (ROI), marketers often struggle to
justify their budget requests.