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The State of Digital Marketing in the Networked Age. Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit April 19, 2013 Lee Rainie: Director, Pew Internet Project Email: Lrainie@pewinternet.org Twitter: @ Lrainie. The new media ecosystem and the Boston bombing.
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The State of DigitalMarketing in the Networked Age Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit April 19, 2013 Lee Rainie: Director, Pew Internet Project Email: Lrainie@pewinternet.org Twitter: @Lrainie
First news – 2:50 p.m. (minute after explosion)Twitter user: @Boston_to_a_T
Real-time fundraising and entrepreneurship (Emerson College students)
On-the-fly norms debates Does anyone remember Richard Jewell?
The new arc of breaking news Hong Ku – Visiting Fellow Nieman Journalism Lab working on an app to help journalists discover news on Twitter
How new media ecosystem applies to marketers • Real time/just-in-time • Pervasively generated and consumed • Personal • Participatory / social • Linked • Continually edited • Multi-platformed • Timeless / searchable • Shaped by social networks and “algorithmic authority”
Networked creators and curators (among internet users) • 69% are social networking site users • 59% share photos and videos • 46% creators; 41% curators • 37% contribute rankings and ratings • 33% create content tags • 30% share personal creations • 26% post comments on sites and blogs • 16% use Twitter • 14% are bloggers • 18% (of smartphone owners) share their locations; 74% get location info and do location sharing
Impact on marketing • More volume, velocity, and variety of information • New pathways to customers • Rise of “fifth estate” of civic and community actors (including citizen “vigilantes”) – harder to control message • More arguments • Collapsed contexts of messaging
Revolution 2: Mobile – 89% of adults51% smartphones / 31% tablets 321.7 Total U.S. population: 315.5 million 2012
Impact on marketing • Attention zones change • “Continuous partial attention” • Deep dives • Info snacking • Real-time, just-in-time searches and availability change process of acquiring and using information • Spontaneous activities • Be “ready for your closeup” • Augmented reality highlights the merger of data world and real world
Digital Revolution 3Social networking – 59% of all adults % of internet users
Impact on marketing • Composition and character of people’s social networks changes AND networks become important channels of … • learning • trust • influence • Organizations can become media companies themselves … • … and “helper nodes” in people’s networks
Final thoughts • More demands for transparency • More attempts at hacking, breaking and entering, and messing with you