Collecting and analysing marketing data takes humans a long time, but AI-enabled insight instantly identifies data patterns and enables marketers to match people to the products/services they want, at the right time and at top speed. So is 2017 the year AI becomes the age of acceptance for marketers?
From product selection and presentation through to search, filtering and promotions, retailers such as ASOS, Missguided and PrettyLittleThing are top of the class when it comes to speaking to Generation Z. As these technologically fluent post-millennials enter the world of work and start to purchase from a wider range of brands, how can retailers tempt them across their virtual front door? Katie Woodhead examines lessons other brands can learn from the online fast fashion fraternity in communicating with the twentysomethings –
the next generation of consumers.
Technology has created a new era for marketers, says Pini Yakuel. But the move from traditional media to the web is not as simple as putting ads online – they must be carefully targeted so as not to bombard and provoke the viewer into deploying ad-blockers and shifting their loyalty elsewhere. Customer data should be carefully individualised and detailed, segmented into specific personas; the art of advertising has morphed into the online marketing science of data analytics.
Do you use a celebrity or the girl next door to share your marketing message and win share of voice within your target marketplace? The tone you take is telling, as research shows, says Stephanie Ciccarelli.
Facebook and Google increasingly dominate the time people spend online and there are both pros and cons in this web duopoly. Verto Analytics’ Dr Hannu Verkasalo spells out the implications for data-driven marketers of having two such powerful internet giants.
Brands need to enable consumers to browse the aisles of an e-commerce site the way they would a physical store, to encourage impulse purchasing – so don’t ‘kill the mood’, give them that emotional experience on your website. Here’s why you should leverage user generated content:
5G networks are projected to cover a third of the world’s population within the next decade – and the impact on the mobile industry and its customers will be profound: The new generation of technology will usher in a new era of global connectivity, with networks adapting to applications and performance being tailored to the needs of the user. Are you ready?
From basic targeting to more refined insight gathering and knowledge sharing, how can agencies provide their clients with an advanced data strategy? A new, global report shows how media agencies are making the most of the capabilities of their DMPs – data management platforms – and highlights regional variations.
Did you know that Google owns Uber? Or that Microsoft owns LinkedIn and Nokia? You do now . . . although the landscape is changing incredibly quickly.
Hallam Internet – a UK-based provider of digital marketing services – recognised it can be tough to keep tabs on who’s who so, earlier this year, it took on the task of working out the tangled web connections. Hallam has now created the interactive infographic shown below, highlighting some surprising connections between arguably the most popular brands around – many of which marketers across the world use daily.
The Tangled Web – Interactive Infographic links up the brands in the digital space – from eBay to Paypal, Twitter to Soundcloud, showing how the ever-changing online landscape is truly a ‘tangled web’ of connected businesses.
Susan Hallam (pictured), managing director at Hallam Internet, told the GMA: “I don’t know how many people appreciate that Google is a major investor in Uber. Or realise that Microsoft owns LinkedIn and Nokia. The web is an incestuous place with tangled relationships. And our digital marketing team decided to research the relationships among the leading digital players, investigating the names we all use on a daily basis.”
She added: “The deeper we dug, the more inter-relationships we discovered. In some cases, these are relationships that were formed in the earlier days, for example when they were still in a start-up phase. Other relationships are more recent, for example LinkedIn purchasing Slideshare. We were also interested to discover the relatively broad range of relationships. Relatively unknown names like IAC have relationships with organisations like Expedia, Hotels.com, as well as Ticketmaster and Match.com
“After gathering the data, we then faced the challenge of programming the interactive infographic so that it legibly displays the complex tangle of inter-relationships. Creating a mobile-friendly version was high on our list of priorities as we knew it would be hugely popular with mobile users. And we’ve created a format that is scalable. We are welcoming suggestions for new relationships to represent on The Tangled Web, and it will be relatively straight-forward for us to add new hubs and nodes.
“Most importantly, we are seeing new relationships forming on nearly a daily basis and we hope to be updating it frequently.”
View the infographic below:
Is direct marketing a dinosaur or a viable and effective modern-day discipline able to measure well with later innovation – and what can today’s digital practitioners learn from those who still get results from traditional and classic methods of reaching their target market? Summit examines the roots of marketing best practice.