Digital Marketing: A Comprehensive Analysis of Trends and Strategies

This report offers a comprehensive overview of digital marketing, tracing its evolution from the 1990s to the present day. It explores the impact of the internet and Web 1.0, highlighting the shift from traditional to online media and the rise of various digital marketing channels, including online advertisements, social media, and mobile marketing. The report discusses the strategies employed by companies like Airbnb and Zappos, emphasizing the importance of user-generated content, blogs, and personalization. It also examines the role of emerging technologies, such as virtual reality and hybrid cloud technology, in shaping the future of digital marketing, and how brands are embracing personalization, big data, and customer experiences. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for marketers to adapt to the changing landscape and leverage analytics to engage with customers effectively.

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In the recent times, the marketing scenario has drastically changed. Plans are modified as
per the real time insights of the customers, media, emerging technology and channels. Digital
marketing is a very novel and innovative concept that is widely used nowadays (Urban, Gosline
and Lee 2017). With the application of database driven online channel is used as the distribution
strategy so that maximum customers can be reached in a significant, appropriate and lucrative
manner. The digital marketing of any product or services can be well explained through the help
of online advertisements, emails, wireless text messages, instant messages, blogging, video
streams, broadcast and podcasting (Royle and Laing 2014).
Digital marketing approach was initially applied in the 1990’s. After the advent of the
internet and Web 1.0 platform development has increased the number of users (Jackson and
Ahuja 2016). The Web 1.0 platform allows its users to access all the relevant information that
they need. On the other hand, it does not allow them to share this information on the web. The
Marketers throughout the nation were unsure about the digital platform as the internet was not
yet popular.
During the year 1993, the foremost clickable banner went live. Immediately after this
approach, Hotwired purchased banner ads for its advertizing (Taiminen and Karjaluoto 2015).
This was the starting of this transition to the era of digital marketing. Due to this gradual shift, in
the year 1994, new technologies therefore entered the digital marketplace. In the same year,
Yahoo was launched and in its very first year it reached close to 1 million hits. This led to
complete changes in the digital marketing space and the organization also optimized their
websites so that they can pull in for higher search engine rankings. In the following year, various
tools and search engines were launched, such as Look Smart, Alexa and HotBot (Kamal 2016).
During the year 1998, Google was developed and became the game changer for digital
marketing (Saini 2017). Microsoft also launched Yahoo and MSN search engine to the Yahoo
web search. After two years, small search engines. Were completely wiped out or left behind by
the major competitors in the business. In the year 2006, the digital market was its firs steep surge
and the search engine traffic was supposed to be grown by 6.4 billion (Kannan 2017). In addition
to this, Microsoft has put MSN on the backburners and furthermore launched Live Search so that
they can compete with Yahoo and Google.

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The trend for the people receiving the information and purchasing the products and
services has shifted from traditional to on-line media. Nowadays, greater numbers of people are
accessing the news required from specialized sites and all the mobile devices anytime and
anywhere in the world (Confos and Davis 2016). The rapid advent of new technology helps to
transforms and affects the distribution and manufacturing and marketing process of the goods
and services. It also helped in optimizing the on-line channels so that it can act objectively (Haq
2017). While adopting these major changes the marketers in the recent times have several
opportunities to reach to the different audiences through both on-line and mobile applications.
Digital marketing promotes the products and services through distribution channel that
are digital in nature to reach the target consumers in very personnel, relevant and cost-effective
manner (Leeflang et al. 2014). This strategy of marketing consists of various practices and
techniques that are categorized within the internet marketing. Moreover, this extends beyond this
as it also includes other channels that can easily be reached by the people that do not need the
internet usage. The result of non-reliance on the internet usage leads to market the complete host
of elements. This includes mobile phones, display and advertisement banners, SMS and MMS
and digital outdoor (Levy and Gvili 2015). Airbnb , the famous airlines company is dependent
primarily on its digital marketing strategies for reaching maximum customers. The organization
relies on the user- generated videos and images on Facebook and Twitter to retains its customers.
Recently, blogs are used to market any product or services to the potential audiences.
Blogs are known to be very authentic and uncensored source of expressing about the product.
This is a newer and integrative concept that displays the shifts of the customers from main
sources to get the true or clear idea about the desired product or services (Urban, Gosline and
Lee 2017). In addition to this, the better knowledge about the products on the internet,
information can be provided to its targeting customers about the best ideas and banned services.
Over the years, advertising and entertainment business are overlapping often and the idea has
been budgeted for purchasing the mobile content lately. Mobile marketing helps in building up
cooperative relationships.
In the year 2104, during the world cup Coca- Cola hosted a virtual reality event that
provided the users opportunity to play along with their home teams. The experiences bought
immense satisfaction to the fans thus enhanced the products brand values. Digital marketing has

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become a powerful network for advertizing in a convenient manner. Campaigns are organized
for promoting the products and services through internet, which is very cost-effective. Over 170
million of people use the social media on a continuous basis (Haq 2017). In the present time,
every working professionals are expected to be familiar with the tenets of the digital marketing.
Digital marketing helps in the promotion of products and services to their target customers and
businesses. People are also applying digital content on a continuous basis. In the modern times,
to survive in the ever increasing competitive market, it is important for the marketers to prepare
for the future (Parekh, Kapupara and Shah 2016). The mobile video advertising techniques used
by Facebook is affordable and allows the customers to reach their target audiences. Facebook is
experimenting with the latest engaging formats through the full-screens advertisements.
Traditional marketing will in a no time completely disappear as it would be taken over by
the digital marketing. Digital marketing are more affordable unlike traditional marketing and
also reaches the maximum number of audiences in a very short time –period. Latest
technological innovations have resulted in significant attrition of the consumers for traditional
marketing departments and agencies (Stone 2014). People have been encouraged to update
themselves with tablets, laptops and smart phones. The invention and adoption of these
innovative methods is increasing at a rapid pace. The mission of the marketers in the current
times is to be the hub of digital marketing, where the brand can easily deliver all the contents. To
fulfill the mission of the marketers, it is important for the people to power as well as enable
immersive online marketing.
Various changes have been taking place, since the past few years and digital
transformation is an evolution. The marketers are now more prepared for the wearable
technology such as connected devices and smart watches. This helps the marketers to engage
themselves with all the targeted customers across its digital channels (Royle and Laing 2014).
The opportunity is leveraging the new technology to help in providing an effective and better
customer experience. Marketers should be therefore prepared to innovate the products as per the
demands of the target market. Digital marketing has enable to maintain a perfect balance
between the marketing mix and advertizing (Levy and Gvili 2015). It becomes easier to
communicate with the customers and also provides an ample opportunity for the marketers so
that they can easily engaged with the desired customers.

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The enhance hybrid cloud technology has also helped the marketers to simply store the
data in the cloud without any forward moving strategy. The cloud offering has its own various
benefits. This includes the advanced processing power, ability to grow rapidly and handle
growth, the stability. Through the latest hybrid cloud technology, the customers obtain better
customer experiences, which are done in a very streamlined manner (Tiago, M.T.P.M.B. and
Veríssimo 2014). The vision of moving forward and customer intelligence is all about the
enabling the marketers to leverage the analytics so that they can easily empower every engaged
touch point with their customers. Lyft, the rideshare company created its own market and brand
through digital marketing. Te cost effective techniques makes transportation easier and the
business is currently reaching great heights.
Brands have already started to embraced personalization, big data and customer
experiences. In the near future the marketing technique of serving the right content to the right
person at the perfect time will no longer will prove to be exceptional. Online or digital marketing
will evolve into great experiences. With the help of audio, tactile and visual content, the
immersive marketing will therefore blend the digital and physical life. Since the past 20 years,
the social media, mobile devices and web has democratic zed the publishing tools that were once
monopolized by all the publishing houses, ad agencies and film studios (Confos and Davis
2016). The tools for the marketing have considerably changed to great extent but the images,
videos and contents has still remained focus of marketing. Zappos, well-known leader in the
shoes e-commerce business establishes gold standards for its digital customer care services. The
company heavily invest in is social media campaign as well as the online marketing (Taiminen
and Karjaluoto 2015).
Within a short span of time, marketing has been transferred to a great extent, explosion of
audio story telling through audio books and podcasts can be easily obtained within the market.
Short videos now dominate the digital marketing and all the present social networks. Due to the
advent of Google cardboard, VR headset and Oculus Rift, the commercialization of the virtual
reality can be observed. People nowadays want a better combination of both their personal life
and digital experience. Online marketing is not only limited to the screens but it serves the
people beyond measures. Personalization of the technology has also made to be in the creative
driver’s seat. People can easily design or choose their snap chats filters. Moreover, people can

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speak to Alexa or Siri present in the mobile apps. Domino’s has also been widely known for its
marketing strategy. Its recent ‘ Dominos Anywhere’ has made the company more popular as the
customers can order their foods via Twitter. In short people are enjoying the era of digitalization
and would gain more popularity in the long-run. Therefore, it can be said that digital marketing is
the vision of the future and has hence, proved to be a catalyst in the competitive business
environment.

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