Next Step of Marketing Platform- Digital Marketing



In 1965 India saw its first TV with its own channel Doordarshan. At that time people were not ready to accept the concept of advertisement on television but around the year 2000, people started investing heavily in television advertisement. In 2003 when broadcast started through DTH, advertisement became a normal promotional feature for all brands. On broadcasting that advertisements on television companies were paying carores, those carores were not includes advertisement production because it seems a very little investment as compare to the effective broadcast timing. That broadcast timing is to get maximum penetration of ads on segmented clients depends on the Doordarshan schedule serials, news or movie timings.

In 2010, P&G and L'Oréal invested $3.1 billion and $1.3 billion respectively on tv advertisement broadcasting for 58 Sec. Even Makemytrip, bookmyshow, and many others invested in tv advertisement. People soon found themselves staring with monotony at advertisements between their favourite movies and specially between IPL. From that market strategy and attractive campaign many companies like AIRTEL, makemytrip, and trivago made numerous profits and many like Vodafone ZOZO, Fevicol etc came up with innovative ads that made them unforgettable. But as technology got further updated, things began changing.




In today’s scenario we can see that digital market has become the platform where everyone is promoting themselves, this promotion is planned, segmented, and result oriented. Like if we have a product for youth than we can concentrate only on youth, it means we can directly target to product audience.  Previously our wastage which cost on higher side for marketing can reduce and penetration on target audience can directly increase as per our desire. We all know that we have 35ML internet users in India and with the help of that user data we can do segmentation as per our product and that campaign will conducted on all social, educational, publishing, news and gaming sites to pitch that product on target consumers.



Last year Volkswagen India started a marketing campaign on Linkedin which was considered as wrong marketing platform. They started updates on their car models, its comforts, specifications and comparisons, when they show rapid customer engagement for that updation they again updated that campaign to ads. Volkswagen was able to receive 3,000 car recommendations in a month and nearly one million updates about Volkswagen models through a single network Linkedin. This is the viral campaigning of digital marketing and it specifies that the users are in same segmentation.

Many off beat businesses being benefited by the digital marketing platform which was not expected by anyone like one Taxi driver Devesh Mishra in Banaras promoted himself on YouTube because of that many foreigner as well Indian clients approached him and In Chennai one taxi driver promoted his business by website and this innovative approach benefited him with numbers of foreigner customers. Reason being in those successes is, they providing a bridge for their customers through which the customers can directly contact them. This promotion is like the stickers we used to found in buses and autorikshaw but the difference is, in digital marketing we can remarket ourselves and wait till the need emerge, even if the need emerge than customer can easily find the bridge to contact.

We all know that marketing become necessity for any business development but to use optimal utilization we should have a recognised and segmented market. Digital marketing becomes that tool which constructed to fulfil that necessity.


“For today’s competitive market we should use best way to engage our customers, and customer engagement is the best way of BRANDING.”

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