Post on 23-Aug-2014
description
History
The History of Social Media
Marketing Suite ---How the industry evolved---
February 2004
Facebook Founded.
March 2006
Twitter Founded.
April 2006
May 2007
September 2007
September 2007
May 2008
Twitter launches Twitter APIs.
October 2008
Social Bakers founded.
Emergence of Social Profile Analytics.
November 2008
Hootsuite Founded
First major web based Social Engagement Platform.
January 2009
Company started as InRev, later renamed as Simplify360.
September 2009
Adobe acquires Omniture
April 2010
September 2010
February 2011
Simplify360 Platform launched to the market.
World’s First Social Marketing Suite is thus
born.
March 2011
Salesforce acquires Radian6.
Enters the Social Marketing Platform space.
June 2011
Facebook launches Graph API.
January 2012
Altimeter released use cases of Social Media Management and suggested the need for Marketing Suite in the market.
This Analyst paper gave the new shape to the industry.
May 2012
Oracle acquires Vitrue.
June 2012
Salesforce acquires Buddy Media.
June 2012
Oracle acquires collective Intellect
July 2012
Oracle acquires Involver.
September 2012
September 2012
Adobe launches Adobe Social – its version of Social Marketing Suite.
October 2012
February 2013
Simplify360 positions itself as
“World’s First Social Marketing Suite” at Ad:Tech Delhi
June 2013
Salesforce acquires ExactTarget
July 2013
Adobe launches New version of Adobe Social, a solution designed to leverage the
new Adobe Marketing Cloud interface
September 2013
Salesforce launches ExactTarget
Marketing Cloud
September 2013
Facebook launches Keyword Insights
and Public Feed API.
December 2013
Oracle acquires Eloqua.
February 2014
There are 4 major Marketing Suites :
Simplify360 Social Marketing Suite
Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud
Oracle Social Relationship Management
Adobe Marketing Cloud (Adobe Social)
What makes a marketing cloud or
social marketing suite?
Social Media Listening (A) Social Publishing (B)
Social Profile Analytics (C) Social Engagement (D)
Social Ad Management (E) CRM Integration (F)
Currently these are the major components of Social Marketing Suite. Integration of complete
Digital Marketing facilities from Sales lead management to Digital CRM is happening next.
Complete Disclosure
All brands, logos and other Intellectual Property belongs to their respective owners.
The presentation is built taking major players in mind. We understand fully that there are several other players in the industry. The presentation is made to show the industry trend and it is not a complete industry report of all industry players.
Some players in the industry may be missed. Please comment about it in Slideshare [Slideshare provides a great commenting system]
If anyone finds any error in the facts presented, please write to us. We will be happy to process and give you the required credit.
Statement from CEO
We compete with some of the most amazing companies of our generation, and we respect them. I am a big admirer of Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, Hootsuite and other companies mentioned in this presentation. This presentation is the show case of industry trend. It is the history that all players mentioned here (or missed) should cherish for what we have achieved together in less than a decade.
The industry has fought several issues of privacy, challenges of big data analytics and compliance with third party APIs. We have together come victorious.
Bhupendra Khanal, CEO – Simplify360
THANK YOU CONNECT WITH US