The document discusses 5 major digital marketing trends for 2013:
1) Native advertising will become more prevalent as brands promote content in a non-interruptive way.
2) Social TV will grow as more channels encourage viewers to interact on social media while watching shows.
3) Fragmentation across devices, channels, and platforms will continue posing challenges for marketers to reach consumers.
4) Content marketing will be an increased area of focus for brands as they build expertise in creating and sharing valuable content.
5) The use of "smart data" to understand consumer behavior from structured and unstructured data sources will be important for personalizing marketing messages.
2. The Indian Digital Marketplace
• Internet Users in India – Over 150 million
• Social Users (in millions): Facebook – 61, LinkedIn – 18.4, Twitter – 18, Google+ - 16, Pinterest – 0.4
• Category Reach in %: Search 87, Social – 85, Email – 78, News – 51, Education – 41
• E-commerce market - $6 Billion, $40 Billion by 2015
• Digital Marketing Industry - $900 Million
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3. 5 Digital Marketing Trends for 2013
• Native Advertising
• Social TV
• Fragmentation
• Content Marketing
• Smart Data
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5. What is Native Advertising?
Native advertising allows brands to promote
their content into the experience of the site or
other mediums, in a non-interruptive &
integrated manner
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6. The Only Viable Ad Strategy
Native is built around
• Content
• Choice
• Integration
& not banners or interruption
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7. 3 Pillars of Native Advertising
• Visually Integrated
• Choice Based
• Content Driven
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9. The Future is not Interruptive
Company’s revenue model must be aligned with it’s
underlying business model - & native is the only form of
monetization that does just that
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11. Beyond the Existing
• All NEWS channels have adopted a form of Social
TV in India
• Sports has also led the way with Cricket properties
like IPL promoting twitter heavily, along with home
matches of the Indian Cricket Team
• Besides NEWS & Sports Channels, even other
youth oriented channels like VH1, MTV, V are
encouraging viewers to get on the 2nd screen
• But 2013 will see GEC’s adopting Social TV in a
big way, inviting viewers to interact & be a part of
the storytelling experience
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14. Biggest #SocialTV app
World’s biggest #SocialTV app has over 500 million users
worldwide
One of the largest social networks in the world, dominates
Social TV landscape
Demo which is ripe for exploiting #SocialTV phenomena
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15. Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings
Proposed standard metric for measuring the conversation that a
TV show spurs on Twitter.
Will compliment Nielsen’s existing TV Ratings
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16. Social TV apps
Other Social TV apps have gone beyond just
check-ins, even incentivizing users.
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18. The 2nd Screen Experience
Drives
• Real user engagement
• Richer experience
• New revenue streams
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19. 2nd Screen put to use
• Leveraging the small screen during big live events
• Incentivizing Ad engagement
• Gamifying TV ads
• Bridging a campaign's TV & Digital elements
• Syncing e-commerce with TV Content
• Sponsoring 2nd screen extras
• Spurring social chatter with #tags
• Enabling real time interactivity
• Creating transmedia opportunities
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20. Transmedia goes BIG
The Biggest Experiment , launching in US,
April 2013
Standalone experience amplified by the TV
show & vice-versa
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21. Why it’s a Big Deal for India?
TVC’s of the future will be trailers into deeper branded digital experiences
• Over 100 million Social Networking users in India
• Even a 1% figure will spike ratings & engagement in a big way
• Social TV will be a $12 Billion business in 7 years (worldwide)
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28. & the Undisputed King of Consumption/Spending
3% Indian Advertising Industry 2012
4% 1%
5% Consumers are watching more TV , but the
aggregate audience remains dispersed
Television
Print
45% Internet
Radio
42% Outdoor
Cinema
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30. Cord Extending
Cord- cutting, a popular phenomenon in
western markets is taking a different approach
in the Indian Marketplace
Users are not so much cutting their cable, but
extending subscriptions to DTH, Broadband,
IPTV services
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31. Indian Streaming Services are Growing
Indian streaming services are growing in a small
market, but sudden influx of many players has
cluttered this market as well.
Some streaming services are exclusively video,
some are only audio, whereas couple of them
stream both
Different monetization models employed
DVRs are taking hold in Urban Indian
households.
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32. Consumer A.D.D.
Network owners are coming out with their own
offerings
Second device is gaining prominence in India, with
few evolved users taking it up whole heartedly
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33. Mobile – Divided Ecosystem
Mobile is plagued by it’s own fragmentation
• Time spent on apps increasing vis-à-vis Mobile web
• Tablets are used more for browsing, due to bigger
screen estate
• Fragmentation challenges to increase with time,
shifting strategy & focus of Marketers
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35. Content is King
Brands & Agencies are in a hurry to build up their
strengths in content marketing, Interest level has already
seen a big jump from last year
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39. Content Marketing Objectives
Goals of B2C Content Marketers in North
America.
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70 Engaging with Customers is clearly the
60 priority, followed by branding, traffic &
50 sales
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40. Context is King #2
Combining forces of Context & Content
will drive e(verywhere)- commerce
More avenues for engagement need to
be created, elevating value proposition
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42. The Greatest Challenge for Marketers
Volume, Velocity & Variety are Big challenges for
Structured Data, &
Unstructured Data
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43. The Delta
Most companies like to consider themselves nimble
but still lack the intention to close the gap between
Talk & Action on Data
For Marketers, the more they know, the better it is
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44. Smart Data at Work
Publishers around the internet use
sophisticated tools to understand our
interests, mainly based on our browsing
behavior and clicks
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45. Indian Retailers are Adopting Smart Data
Helps in Store Layouts
Inventory Management
Improving Shopper Experience
Generating additional revenue streams
Predicting Consumer Behavior and Personalizing
offers
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46. Netflix reports 75% of videos
people watch are a result of
recommendations
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47. Apple’s Genius serving Personalized
Results
Smart Data can be a powerful tool in driving engagement
conversion, especially to track behavior in real time
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48. Crowdsourcing by Foursquare
Over 20 million users
Discovery + Location targeted offers
Power of combining Location, Context & Intent
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