Most firms are now familiar with the COVID-19 pandemic’s consequences: Offline sales changing, flexible work-from-anywhere possibilities, variable foot traffic with lockdown regulations, and e-commerce becoming a channel many firms wish they had developed infrastructure for sooner. Advertising revenues are inevitably flooding in as a record number of customers in Southeast Asia migrate from retail malls to online platforms like Shopee, Lazada, Tiki, and Tokopedia. Right present, retail media is gaining traction in emerging nations.
In North America, Amazon set the way in 2018 by creating Amazon Advertising, the first bid-and-buy marketplace. Retailers, according to BCG, have a $100 billion commercial opportunity to seize if they can stay up. It is necessary to assess what current-day marketing has become in order to comprehend why merchants will attract more ad money.
Is it ads on bus stops? Is it better to bid on Google keywords or go to a Clubhouse session? Is it a Tiptop video that has gone viral? Modern marketing is a combination of all channels coupled to key performance measures as the world is increasingly connected and the barriers between offline and online blur even more. The basic purpose of marketing, regardless of the media, is to draw attention to a company or product in order to generate a sale. In addition, as with most things, there are excellent, better, and much better ways to accomplish things.
Because the mediums were so prevalent at the time, traditional marketing channels were essentially linear TV, radio, and print. Newer platforms, such as email, websites, and streaming, arose with the advent of the internet, then come to the emergence of social media and mobile applications, which threw the advertising environment into disarray. Regardless of these upheavals, one thing has remained constant: the business followed the consumer.
So, if the sources of traffic and income change again, say due to a pandemic, the marketing mix changes as well. According to Nielsen, many marketers anticipate to reduce expenditure in cinema, print, and out-of-home (OOH) during the next 12 months, while the majority will boost spending in social and search. So, when money moves out of old buckets, which routes will benefit? Ad revenue patterns in developed markets like the United States are a solid indicator. While Google and Facebook remain the top advertising players in the United States, according to eMarketer, Amazon has eaten into the duopoly’s ad revenue pie, increasing its share from 7.8% to 10.3 percent in 2020 alone.
