The digital revolution has changed the way companies market their products and services. Before the advent of digital marketing practices, companies relied solely on offline strategies such as billboards, radio and television advertisements, newspapers, direct mail, telephone calls, postcards, catalogs, brochures or other printed materials. The term 'digital marketing' was first used in the 1990s when the Web 1.0 platform was developed. This platform allowed users to find the information they were looking for, but it did not allow them to share this information through the web. The digital era took off with the arrival of the Internet and the development of the Web 1.0 platform.
This allowed marketers around the world to start exploring digital strategies and tactics to reach their target audiences. With the emergence of Web 2.0, users could now interact with each other and share information online. This opened up a whole new world of opportunities for marketers to engage with their customers in a more meaningful way. The 2000s saw a rapid growth in digital marketing as technology advanced and consumers had access to a wider variety of digital platforms, both at home and away from home. From there, digital technology and subsequent advertising used to capitalize on those technologies exploded.
Things didn't really start to grow until the end of the years, with the arrival of Facebook and LinkedIn, two of the main players in social media and digital marketing. To understand which ads generated revenue in the digital mix, marketers adopted multi-touch attribution, which scores several touchpoints throughout the consumer buying process. However, with digital channels, marketers could see when and where consumers were interacting with their marketing. As flaws in attribution models were identified, marketers began to adopt impulse studies, which increase consumers' touchpoints on a specific digital channel (such as mobile devices) and score the value of each touchpoint in increments. Nowadays, the digital revolution has made it possible to take advantage of effective marketing performance tools that expand marketing measurement capabilities far beyond digital attribution. With digital, marketers can see interactions faster and need marketing analytics that can keep up to date. As a knowledge manager in project management and digital marketing, Avantika's area of interest is project design and analysis for digital marketing, data science and analysis companies.
It's an important part of the new Internet landscape, and the next generation of digital natives is changing the way information is viewed and shared. Our new digital skills report revealed that many marketers are uncertain about their future and believe that digital marketing will be critical to their organization for the next two years. To stay ahead of the competition, companies must continue to invest in new technologies and strategies that will help them reach their target audiences more effectively.
