Technology, Social Media, Content Marketing And The Cloud

Since the mid to late 1900’s, the advertising industry has taken off and found new ways to persuade consumers to purchase products. As is the case with most things nowadays, social media has been a monumental part in the above mentioned forward progression the advertising industry has faced. Therefore, given the modern day advances of technology, social media and advertisers have found it increasingly more easy to join forces along the journey of fusing consumers into one massive cache. However, regardless of new advances, analysts have made an abundance of shocking discoveries that besmirch advertisers and their work in recent decades. As Jack Solomon wrote in his article, “Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising”, “if

What we love about marketing is that it is a continually in a state of evolution. From email and mobile to the real-time web, to social acquisition and personalization capabilities, marketing technology innovates and improves.

People are connected more by social media and marketing executives have taken notice. The innovation in technology online and through television has increased. Today, people use the internet for shopping using various tools such as laptop and iPhones. We are in the new age of marketing where people are connected via social media and business is trended online. Thus, the innovation in interactive television and online services has expanded the strategies and tactics. This is so because more and more people are using internet for shopping, taking the purchase decisions via range of tools such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, etc. Throughout

We are at the forefront of an information revolution. Firms are increasingly relying on data to drive strategic and business decisions. Upstart companies are giving market leaders a run for their money by tapping into advanced data analytics, statistical modeling and open source software. Multi-billion dollar companies like Uber and Airbnb have shown a groundbreaking data-driven way to connect its products & services to their customers. We are living in a world where every customer touch point with a digital device is being recorded and monetized. Every business has to reinvent, transform, and adapt its products and services to meet the demand of its digital savvy customers or face the risk of becoming obsolete.

The incredible pace of technological advancement is a challenge for all companies. In recent years, the greatest growth was seen in mobile devices, which challenges companies, like REI, to keep up with consumer demands. With mobile devices, customers want to interact with companies on their terms. Companies, like REI, can respond by offering personalized marketing directed at users of mobile devices. Mobile devices are also leading the charge for new payment methods, NFC enabled devices and mobile

Trends are always changing in the marketing world. It is important for companies to stay up to date on new trends in the marketing world. To stay up to date on these trends integrated marketing must take place and that allows for

Traditionally, marketing responsibilities included handling the company's limited online presence. This was often little more than a website, email campaigns, banner ads and landing pages, so most CMOs were comfortable juggling online and offline responsibilities. Then came a surge of new digital technologies, including smartphones, social media, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and big data. At the same time, customers were feeling increasingly empowered and began

Changes in technology have impacted consumer behaviour and the way the market behaves. An understanding of this means Airmiles can respond and incorporate relevant strategies. (Gay, 2007, p.91). Consumers are more influenced by social media, so leveraging it is essential.

Despite the fact that we’re already in the 21st century, society continues to show signs of progress and development strongly leaning towards the direction of advancement, constantly evolving. This pattern is no different from the world of advertising, as it has also evolved through the years and quite recently an unexpected technological innovation took the world by storm. It made such a tremendous impact that eventually led to the transformation of traditional marketing, and it’s no other than social media that we all learned to love.

In today’s business world, more than 90% of businesses engage in social marketing. Social media ‘…when it is done right, can lead to more customers, more traffic and more conversion (DeMers, 2014).’ Big Data can be used to extract customers’ information that can shed light on patterns and behavior. This information can lead to product

The marketing industry is an elaborate network that links companies to their consumers, primarily through written communication. The main objective of marketing is to identify trends and patterns in consumer behavior, and utilize the data to influence consumers to purchase more goods. From a macroenviroment standpoint, the general conditions of a market are heavily dependent on global environmental factors. The most significant factor that influences the markets today is technological advancements. Since the release of Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter, and Myspace in the early 2000s, the number of people using social media has increased to over sixty-five percent. The ever-growing dependency on social media platforms, has given marketers the tremendous opportunity to further market potential consumers. Social media marketing is a specific form of marketing that focuses on producing ad content that social media users will post on their own networks. This particular marketing technique is effective because ads and content are created, based on what personal information users post on social media. Firms and organizations that advertise their brands on social media are more likely to increase their customer base and annual revenue. By doing so, companies are able to increase exposure of their brand and widen previous hidden, customer bases. As a marketer, the fine line between right and wrong is often blurred. The amount and

In today’s business world, social media is being discussed on a daily basis. This phenomenon has taken over the marketing and advertising industries and has changed the way they handle their efforts to attract customers. There is a big misunderstanding that social media are only popular networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, but as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, social media are “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and micro blogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos).” The rise of these online communities has given companies an opportunity to engage in conversations with their customers. This in

Social media is defined as a group of Internet-based applications which build on the platform of Web 2.0 and the contents of these applications can be modified by all users in a participatory and collaborative method (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010). Social media creates a platform for companies to talk to their customers as a hybrid element of promotion mix. With the emergence of social media, the tools and strategies for companies to connect with customers have also changed (Mangold and Faulds, 2009). To adapt with the emergence of social media in the marketing, companies should have unique insights about these significances (Quan-Haase and Young, 2010). The significances of social media embody three main aspects which are technology, decision-making and purchase behaviors of customers.

Advertising agencies today are confronted with the ever-evolving nature of technology and new applications that are continually being devised. Traditional advertising methods such as billboards, newspapers, magazines, radio and even broadcast television advertising are becoming less effective due to the significant increase in the number of platforms for getting messages to target audiences. In my essay I will discuss the challenges that the digitalization of communications has had on advertising agencies and its effects on consumers, the media and brands, with examples of how these companies are overcoming these problems to solve their clients’ brand or business issues.

Different tactics have proven over the years to draw consumers in. These tactics have proven that there is not a bright future for mass marketing. The idea behind successful marketing now, is to not tell someone that a product will make them happy, but it is about showing them how a product will make them happy. An example of how this shift in marketing has occurred is with what Samsung did for its’ customers at random airports. Samsung didn’t put up giant billboards and come up with a catchy song to draw any and every person to their product, they instead targeted those who