Digital marketing refers to advertising using digital platforms
such as search engines, social media, email, and mobile apps.
Using these digital platforms, companies endorse goods, services,
and brands. Consumers rely on digital means to research products,
and many of them usually opt for online services like shopping,
business-related services, or personal needs. Google marketing
insights found that 48% of customers usually opt for a search
engine to search their query. 26% search with mobile devices while
33% are the ones looking for brand websites.
While digital marketing nowadays is just not about onboarding a
channel (website or a means to share content), advertising online
is a much more complex process than thought. To achieve the full
potential of digital marketing, marketers nowadays dig deep to
find out what’s the level of competition and many more similar
things to discover marketing strategies and that make an impact on
the audience converting them into leads and further into
customers. By implementing omnichannel marketing strategies,
businesses can now get insights on the customer's behaviour on
their website, this includes clicks made, total time spent on a
particular page, and more importantly, what’s the target audience
they can target through current marketing techniques.
COVID-19 has made an impact on lots of businesses and forced the
same to come to halt, but during these tough times, digital
marketing has seen a rapid hike, probably due to the increase in
user engagement. There is no stop to this growth, it’s too hard to
separate digital marketing from the marketing of a brand these
days. And so the need arises to switch from traditional marketing
to digital marketing.
To understand why digital marketing is the future of marketing, we
have to first understand what changes can be seen in digital
marketing in the coming years. Let’s dive deep into it.
E-privacy will shake up the industry:
According to Arianne Donoghue (Digital marketing consultant), it’s
too hard to see how it is going to change. The change will be slow
and steady, and probably we can trace that if we compare the
statistics of the last 5 years in the near future.