A presentation given by Robin Gurney on behalf of Econsultancy Asia at GeeksOnABeach conference in Boracay, Philippines 25-28 September 2013.
presentation includes extracts from the report and personal comments by Robin Gurney, an internet marketing veteran.
The second annual State of Digital Marketing in Asia report http://econsultancy.com/ph/reports/state-of-digital-marketing-in-asia, published by Econsultancy in association with Campaign Asia-Pacific, looks in detail at the relative levels of spending across different traditional and online marketing channels across the Asian region.
Nearly 400 companies participated in this research, which also looks at how organisations are measuring marketing effectiveness, examines the barriers to digital marketing and e-commerce in the region, as well as assessing the existing levels of industry skills and knowledge.
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State of Digital Marketing in Asia 2013
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State of Digital in Asia 2013:
Implications to your business
GEEKS ON A BEACH, Boracay, Philippines
26 – 27 September 2013
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State of Digital in Asia 2013
Digital Transformation:
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Fast forward your organisation’s digital transformation
Robin Gurney of Cre8ors.co
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About Robin Gurney
English 40+ ;)
Passionate internet marketer since 1997
Specialist - Internet marketing strategy and content marketing
Entrepreneur - created and sold two European internet marketing agencies
Looking for new opportunities in Asia
Proud to represent Econsultancy at GOAB
Running a non profit to help poor Filipino children www.andakidz.org
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Notas do Editor
Time is short so just want to say quick thank you to all of you, the sponsors, Jocelyn and her team and Ben Skelton for connecting me to the people in the know.
The State of Digital in Asia 2013 is an amazingly detailed report published by Econsultancy in association with Campaign Asia
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I would love to really go into this report in detail and give my interpretations of the findings but because of short time slot I can only share a few of the most important highlights and response from both client-side and agency respondents.
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Digital marketing in Asia captures a significant share of local marketing dollars as traditional marketing is gradually de-prioritised.
Two in five (42%) companies surveyed plan to increase their overall marketing investment over the next 12 months, while two-thirds (66%) report increases for their digital budgets. For comparison, just under a fifth (19%) of responding companies plan to increase their traditional (offline) budgets.
Compared to last year, the proportion of client-side marketers saying their organisations will increase their digital budgets by more than 50% has tripled (from 4% in 2012 to 13% this year).
Just under three-quarters (73%) of marketers agree that "content marketing will become more important over the next year", while less than half (47%) consider "big data" to be an "exciting opportunity" for the year ahead.
Briefly explain what is content marketing. It’s my speciality.
Q Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?Around two-thirds (69%) of client-side respondents (and over half of agencies) expect their (or their clients’) digital marketing activity to be more measurable over the next year.
63% will be investing heavily in digital.
Q to agency respondents: Which of the following digital channels or disciplines do you clients use for marketing?Email is still the killer app.
Off site social media very important but declining.
SEO (search engine optimisation) is consistently important
Q to agency respondents: Which mobile channels or technologies do you clients use for marketing?Big drop in sms usage – mms and location based services also down
Mobile advertising up 10%
Q to client-side respondents: Are you planning to increase your digital (online) marketing budget during the next 12 months?Digital budgets are increasing for two thirds but what is holding back the others? Lack of knowledge? Unable to calculate ROI? Senior management don’t “get it”?
Q to agency respondents: Typically, how would you describe the understanding of your clients’ senior managers about the potential of digital channels (email, search, social media, etc.) to help grow their businesses?Less than one third of companies seem to understand the potential of digital well or excellently. I suggest many need to be presented with more compelling evidence. IMHO all senior management should make it a priority to at least understand the potential of digital marketing.
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Q to client-side respondents: How would you describe the level of digital knowledge within your organisation?
Still only 5% consider their knowledge levels to be excellent and the percentage with a “good” level has actually decreased.
This is evidence of the need for more or better learning activities in companies
Q to client side respondents: What are the biggest barriers preventing your organization from investing more money in digital marketing?Company culture as a barrier factor is number one and has increased 50%. That worries me. Why? Comment on twitter at #sodia13
The other top 5 factors can be solved through consultancy, training, specialist software and C-Level education.
There is a business opportunity for someone to gather and share (or make more available) Asian Digital Marketing case studies.
Q What are the challenges around digital skills and training that you see within the industry?
(Below are snips and re-edits of responses from the survey)Case studies not relevant to the region.Lack of planned and sustained approach within organisations.Unstructured and theoretical trainings do not help digital (need more practical)Huge gap between strategy and execution. (Ideas are cheap, execution is everything)
Need for better understanding of analytics.
Consulting services - Digital strategy, site audits, digital organisational structures and organisational change
Public training - One day, high level, training sessions - booked online.
In-house training - We’ve delivered training in over 60 countries around the world
Editorial content, research and reports - Sourced from all the regions we work in and beyond, with our newest research having recently being commissioned or currently in the field across APAC and MENA.
Digital marketing events - We run events and our highly specialised conferences in all regions globally, with our Peer Summit and Digital Cream running in New York, London, New York Singapore, Shanghai and Melbourne & Sydney.
Support: Our diverse perspective on digital marketing thinking, through working with many global brands across many different industry sectors, means we have a deep understanding of where most organisations are currently at and we’re completely versed at being able to deliver globally.
Global expert consultancy network – Econsultancy has an impressive global network of proven digital consultants, meaning we can match some of the best digital experts in the world to the precise needs of any digital consultancy project.
Independence: We are able to give neutral best practice advice because we are technology, agency, supplier neutral - we have no business requirement or commercial relationships that require us to direct you to a specific social media tool, service offering or agency.
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