The State of DigitalMarketing in the Networked Age

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Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project, discusses the Project’s latest research about internet use, mobile connectivity, and social media, and what the findings mean for marketers. He will explore how "networked information" has very different characteristics from "industrial era media" and why this has profound implications for the way marketers gain attention for their messages and interact with their audiences.

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PewInternet.org

The State of Digital Marketing in the Networked Age

Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit - Baltimore

September 19, 2013

Lee Rainie: Director, Pew Internet Project

Email: Lrainie@pewinternet.org

Twitter: @Lrainie

The new media ecosystem and the Navy Yard shootings

9.16.13

Tweets start: 8:21 a.m.

Multiple Hashtags created: 8:42 a.m.

Pictures start emerging: 9:00 a.m.

…. And videos with commentary

Personal tweets give way to news media tweets: Late morning

Live feeds from first responder scanners

“I’m fine” sites

People finder sites get used

Crowdsourcing the investigation …

… but it was shut down this time

Large amount of personal testimony and reaction

Memorials arise

The new arc of breaking news

Hong Ku – Visiting Fellow Nieman Journalism Lab working on an

app to help journalists discover news on Twitter

Networked individualism and the triple revolution

Digital Revolution 1: Broadband at home - 70% (+10% more have smartphones) - Internet users overall: 85%

3%

70%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

June 2000

April 2001

March 2002

March 2003

April 2004

March 2005

March 2006

March 2007

April 2008

April 2009

May 2010

Aug 2011

April 2012

May 2013

Dial-up Broadband

Impact on marketing

• More volume, velocity, and variety of information

• New pathways to customers

• Rise of “fifth estate” of civic and community actors (including citizen “vigilantes”) – harder to control message

• More arguments

• Collapsed contexts of messaging

Digital Revolution 2 Mobile – 91% … smartphone 56% … tablets 34%

326.4

Total U.S.

population:

319 million

2012

Changes in smartphone ownership

35%

48%

17%

46% 41%

12%

56%

35%

9%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Smartphone Other cell phone No cell phone

May 2011 February 2012 May 2013

• Attention zones change – “Continuous partial attention” – Deep dives – Info snacking

• Real-time, just-in-time searches and availability change process of acquiring and using information – Spontaneous activities – Be “ready for your closeup”

• Augmented reality & localized information highlight the merger of data world and real world

Impact on marketing

Digital Revolution 3 Social networking – 61% of all adults

% of internet users

9%

89%

7%

78%

6%

60%

1%

43%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

18-29 30-49 50-64 65+

The Landscape of Social Media Users (among adults)

% of internet

users who…. The service is especially appealing to

Use Any Social

Networking Site 72% Adults ages 18-29, women

Use Facebook 69% Women, adults ages 18-29

Use Google+ 31% Higher educated

LinkedIn 20% Adults ages 30-64, higher income,

higher educated

Use Twitter 18% Adults ages 18-29, African-Americans,

urban residents

Use Pinterest 15% Women, adults under 50, whites,

those with some college education

Use Instagram 13% Adults ages 18-29, African-Americans,

Latinos, women, urban residents

Use Tumblr 6% Adults ages 18-29

reddit 6% Men ages 18-29

• Composition and character of people’s social networks changes AND networks become important channels of … – discovery & learning

– trust

– influence

• Organizations can become media companies themselves …

• … and “helper nodes” in people’s networks

Impact on marketing

• More demands for transparency

Final thoughts

• More attempts at hacking, breaking and entering, and messing with you

Thank you!