This document discusses the evolution of marketing channels in the United States from 1690 to present day. It notes that while traditional channels like television, newspapers, and direct mail peaked in the mid-20th century, they have not disappeared. New digital channels like the internet, mobile, and social media now dominate marketing. The document argues that email remains an important marketing channel, as it is a large digital channel that exists independently of social media and is important for functions like password retrieval. It also discusses strategies for high engagement curated email content versus mass marketing emails, and how email fits into the future of marketing automation and location-based marketing.
2. 1690-1990
US MARKETING CHANNELS
1690
1775
1847
1920
1941
18001700 1900
1967
1971
1989
Tiffany’s Blue
Book Catalog
1st Newspaper
Public
Occurences
(Boston)
US Postal
Service
Founded
Town & Country
Magazine
1st Radio
Broadcast
KDKA -
Pittsburgh
7-1-41: Day One
Commercial TV
WNBC - Brooklyn
“1-800”
Establishe
dAT&T
Commercial
Email
Pay TV
eMail:
ARPNET @
1972
1953: “Marketing Mix” Neil Borden
1964: “4Ps” Jerome McCarthy
1846
2000
1880
Hearst
3. 1990…
US MARKETING CHANNELS
1993
1994
1998
1999
2004
19951990 2005
2005
2006
1st Web
Browsers
1st Commercial
Text
2007
2000 20152010
2010
2011
1st DVR/
Digital TV
2009
Apple
Push
Notifications
2003
Mobile>50%
(emarketer.com)
Avg American @
4 Devices
(Nielsen)
2000
4. CHANNELS PEAK BUT NEVER
DISAPPEAR
TV Peak: 1952 – “I Love Lucy”: 67 Share…
… Sunday Night Football currently #1 at 12.3 Share (Nielsen)
…Over 400 shows available (broadcast + streaming) (NY Times)
Newspaper Peak: 1984 – 63MM Circulation… (NAA)
… Currently at 40MM in US, Only 29% read paper daily
Direct Mail Peak: 2000 – 103B pieces of 1st Class Mail…
… Down to 78B by 2010 (USPS)
Desktop Ad Spend 2013 – $32B … Mobile at$11B
… 2016 Projection at $21B, Mobile at $41B (EMARKETR.COM)
5. BIG DATA
YES IT MATTERS IN ALL THE
CONFUSION…
… BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE A
CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
STRATEGY
8. EMAIL IS THE BIGGEST
DIGITAL CHANNEL
Facebook Email WebsitesTwitter
1.28
billion
300
million
3.9
billion
919
million
183 billion
messages
3.3 billion
searches
757 million
daily active
users
47 billion
Page views
ACTIVE
ACCOUNTS
DAILY
ACTIVITY
2013—Data
from Radicati, Yahoo, PR
Newswire, Business
Insider, Twitter, Netcraft,
and Daily Mail
500 million
daily tweets
11. EMAIL:
1. COST EFFECTIVE CHANNEL
2. CUSTOMER IDENTIFICATION
KEY
REPLACING POSTAL ADDRESS AS
THE PRIMARY POINT OF LINKAGE
12. THE
CHANNEL
A TALE OF TWO EMAIL STRATEGIES
1 – CURATED CONTENT – HIGH
ENGAGEMENT
2 – MASS MARKETING – HIGH TOUCH
13. HIGH ENGAGEMENT:
EMAIL AS A WEB
PAGE
• Mobile optimized
• Targeted/Curated Content
• Embedded Video
• Social sharing links
• Dynamic Ad Network
CURATED CONTENT
14. Countdown
clock drives
immediacy
of action
Scrolling
cover build
creates visual
engagement
Visually bold
call to Action
Hurry! Offer expires in 8 days 15 hours 01 minutes 28
seconds
HIGH TOUCH:
TRADITIONAL DIRECT
MARKETING
MASS MARKETING
Charlie...your main concept was intriguing and I did my own column on this. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/263334/giving-thanks-for-the-law-of-accelerating-returns.html
Feel free to grab any tidbits you think might add to the concept. Also, given Hearst’s own significant history, it might make sense to put a Hearst timeline in here as well. After all, you’re an important subset of American media.
Not sure if you’re thinking this, but this would be a natural transition from backwards looking to forward looking. Something along these lines: “So, if we take this moment in time to assess, we have this ever accelerating wave of change. What does that mean for the future? For example, we’ve been obsessed with Big Data. How does that change the game?)
Another point in my column was that everyone of these disruptive changes builds the stage for the next – so it would be interesting to talk about how digital technology built the stage for Big Data, and as we figure that out, what might that set up in the future?
This will resonate well with the audience. The fact that email is one of the oldest of digital channels but has been resilient to change. It would be interesting to understand why...from a behavioral perspective.
Even more true for people of my generation. It’s my email prompts that pull me back to Facebook, I almost never go there without that prompt. I find my inbox is my attention clearing house. Not sure if I’m an anomaly..