Gone are the days of build it and they will come.
We remember a time when you could make a website and then sit back and just wait for the traffic to start arriving. That was back in the days when website numbers were measured in the thousands, nowadays we have over a billion. This competition for traffic has spawned a perpetually evolving digital marketing ecosystem that is becoming increasingly complex to navigate without specialist knowledge.
It has driven the development of new tools and technologies used to measure every element of people’s interaction with the online world and in some instances beyond it. With this thirst for knowledge new disciplines have evolved to meet the need to better interpret and learn from all of this data, with job titles such as data scientist becoming increasingly common. In modern marketing you need to know how to interrogate this data in order to come up with the insights to guide the direction each of your campaign’s will take.
To coincide with the expansion in measurement techniques and systems there has been an explosion in the number of channels that are available to businesses (eg. native advertising and influencer marketing).
Beyond the challenge of mastering the management of all of these marketing channels there is also the need to understand how to integrate them together to provide even greater overall performance. This can then start to transcend the digital environment with almost all non-digital marketing having at least some supporting activity being provided through digital channels – or vice versa.
This all leads to an inevitable realisation. The digital marketing landscape has evolved to the point where it has become too complex for someone without the relevant specialist skill set to be able to manage effectively.
At Outside we pride ourselves on having expertise across all digital disciplines and we are continually investing in expanding our knowledge as new technologies and techniques are developed so that you don’t have to.
Digital is where we live and we know it back to front and inside out.