The 21st century is nearly two decades old, and its own early prodigies are reaching maturity. Social media, digital marketing and visual branding are no longer in their infancies, and what began as experiments are now essential parts of our social sphere. A near-fully connected world means that the line between consumer and marketer continues to blur.
Brands now create text messages not and then invite a customer’s purchase, but to inspire that same consumer to spread the message to a broader market. A lot more than during any time before, consumers control a deeper level of the market. “As consumers – via public media – most of us have a chair at the marketing table – by writing our needs and priorities through immediate feedback and purchasing choices,” Influence-Central founder and CEO Stacy DeBroff recently informed Forbes. “We’ve seen the impact of the ‘brand revolution’ on key consumer-facing industries.
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It’s vital, therefore, that digital marketers stay static in tune with the existing pulse of branding, visual storytelling and interpersonal marketing in order to give consumers not only what they would like to have, but what they would like to discuss also. Audiences used to wonder how a whole story would end, but no more.
People still to know what happens next, but they’d not see a common tales end at all rather. Why else would the global world have been compelled to endure Sharknado 5? Nowadays there are so many outlets to provide content – and so many entities producing it – that niche audiences can find virtually any subject material that tickles their fancies. With so many options available, how do digital marketers catch – aside from keep – consumers’ attention?
When they find what works, they stick with it. Think about it: 30-plus years ago movie-goers were content with three Star Wars movies to complete the franchise. Now there’s so much demand for a galaxy much, every yr far away that the world views a new Jedi adventure. Meanwhile, 2.27 million Twitter users aren’t satisfied with a weekly episode of The Simpsons, and are hanging on Homer Simpson’s every tweet throughout each day.
Digital marketers are taking heed to these cultural changes, and 2017 guarantees to see episodic marketing stories move to the forefront. Just as the original soap operas were created to literally sell soap to tv viewers, storytelling will play an intrinsic role in 2017 advertising and branding attempts. “Stop interrupting what folks are interested in, and be what they’re interested in,” Marriot’s vice president of global creative and content marketing David Beebe advised brands finally year’s Contently Summit. That VR gear is available to the common consumer Now, plenty of the largest names in tech are releasing content to accompany these devices, including movie-streaming apps, video gaming and marketing campaigns.
Audiences is now able to interact with brands like nothing you’ve seen prior as they walk around scenes, manipulate items and impact results even. Of passively watching an actor demonstrate something Instead, customers can utilize it themselves virtually. Rather than looking at pretty pictures of a accepted place they might prefer to visit, audiences can be fully immersed in the location, virtually have a short hike and walk along the beach.
And as digital reality becomes a much greater part of everyday life, its use in marketing claims to expand with techniques we haven’t even yet imagined. Engagement: it’s the best marketing X factor and the best goal of several branding experts. The more engaged an audience is with a brand, the greater it matters to them, resulting in more sales ultimately. And few strategies engage people more than gamification. Motivating audiences to take action or modify behavior through the use of gaming elements such as goals, factors, levels and awards in non-game contexts isn’t new to 2017, but it’s still a reasonably recent strategy.
The term “gamification” might have been coined in 2002, however the technique didn’t gain reputation until 2010. Year That, Starbucks granted customers who checked in at multiple locations custom Foursquare badges and discount rates. That and similar early promotions were so successful that by 2013 more than 70 percent of Forbes Global 2000 companies surveyed said they planned to use gamification for marketing purposes.
Now that there’s an app for this, that and much everything under the sun quite, gamification campaigns are popping up across the marketing world. Nike administers an immensely popular app which allows customers to record and monitor fitness achievements, work toward goals and compete against themselves or others. And countless brands now encourage customers with factors in trade for departing reviews or making purchases.