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The Digital Marketing Revolution in 2025: Technology, Humanity and the Limits of Connection

Mkt Consulting — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:15:55 +0000

diciembre 6, 2024
7:15 pm

Digital marketing, at its core, has always been a reflection of the human condition. Every technology, every platform, every innovation that emerges is driven by the universal desire to connect, influence and belong. But on this path toward mass connection, there are both exciting opportunities and challenges that challenge our understanding of what it means to communicate in the 21st century.

By 2025, generative artificial intelligence promises to reconfigure the foundations of marketing. Imagine a world where 30% of all brand messages are written not by creatives, but by algorithms. These tools not only generate content, but adapt it to levels of customization that previously seemed impossible. However, this technological utopia carries a paradox: the more we depend on these machines to communicate, the more we must confront our own inability to handle the cultural change it demands. How do we adapt as humans when we delegate the art of persuasion to a machine?

The rise of platforms like Threads adds another layer to this complexity. In record time, it has accumulated more than 275 million active users, becoming a digital battlefield where brands, ideas and movements compete to capture the public’s ephemeral attention. Its dynamism is its strength, but also its greatest challenge: how to design messages that not only cut through the noise, but transform it into resonance? At Threads, creativity is the entry, but relevance is permanence.

Meanwhile, connected TV is emerging as the bridge between old and new. In this hybrid space where digital meets traditional, brands have a unique opportunity to reinvent their narrative. But this convergence raises fundamental questions: what happens when audiences, fragmented by streaming platforms, no longer consume content in a unified way? Creating coherent campaigns in this chaotic ecosystem is like trying to weave a net that will catch a scattered school.

At the heart of all these trends is a resource more valuable than gold: data. Executives see artificial intelligence as a tool to anticipate behaviors, personalize messages and design experiences.

But here lies an ethical challenge of colossal proportions: how to extract value from data without violating people’s privacy? In this delicate balance, companies not only compete for consumers’ attention, but also for their trust.

And then there’s the undisputed king of digital marketing: interactive video. This format not only tells stories, it lives them with the viewer. But capturing and holding the attention of a stimulus-saturated audience is an art in itself. Innovating becomes an obligation; each frame must captivate, each second must justify its existence. The brands that achieve this will not only communicate, but will build relationships that transcend the screen.

However, the real challenge is not in the technology or the platforms, but in how we respond as human beings. Just as we build emotional walls to protect our vulnerabilities, brands face the dilemma of how much to show and how much to hide in their interaction with audiences. Can we allow ourselves to be authentic in a world where every gesture, every word and every silence is interpreted through the prism of data?

Marketing in 2025 will not simply be a matter of tools and trends, but of humanity. It will be a constant struggle to find the balance between technological efficiency and emotional connection, between the precision of algorithms and the authenticity of narratives. In this new chapter, not the biggest or most technological brands will win, but those that understand that, at the end of the day, marketing is not just about selling products, but about building bridges to what we most long for: belonging.

How can I help you?

Mkt Consulting — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:02:19 +0000

marzo 14, 2022
9:02 am

The art of serving: Understanding to Serve.

I’m watching a series on Netflix called New Amsterdam.

It is the typical drama of medical staff and patients in a hospital. The scripts are adjusted so that in each chapter you get a couple of similar ideas about a specific topic: love, family and drugs, etc.

I’m not trying to be a series critic, so I’ll leave it there. What I wanted to share with you today is the theme of the phrase that your medical director says in each chapter: How can I help you?

And I really liked this phrase! It is a declaration of the character’s intentions to make things happen. When you ask that question, you are committing to providing a service and being able to attend to your client and their needs.

This is not about servility like “my lord” or “whatever you command”, it is a genuine act of marketing with all of the law.

That is, if you ask: How can I help you?, and you are able to deliver quality service, as a customer (whether you are a patient or a collaborator in the hospital in this case) you will feel absolutely satisfied with the experience that your boss or your general director gives you.

Being very honest, I ask you: In your company, do you ask this question to your employees? You ask them: what can you do for them? (apart from bringing them into the fray by working and pressuring them to give results for the business). Or, on the contrary, you neither listen to them nor understand their needs.
or you complain that they’re always messing around.

Endomarketing or internal marketing is key in an organization to be able to grow solidly, since, if a collaborator feels comfortable and satisfied in their work, they can perform more and better in a relaxed and comfortable environment.

The lost generation?

Mkt Consulting — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:50:12 +0000

marzo 14, 2022
8:50 am

The human being is by nature a social being

I like to give classes and universities usually invite me to give a marketing talk every semester. I had not had the chance to give any online class (meetings and sales pitch a lot) but not with students sitting at their desks and in pandemic.

For me it was a nice experience -I don’t know if it was for all of them too- (including the tenured teachers), since I talked about sports marketing, genetic emphasis, icebergs, books, travel, viruses, contagions, new normalities, etcetera, among many other things.

After the talk, I stayed with the teachers agreeing on what’s next (I wouldn’t be surprised if after what I told them they don’t invite me back).

I noticed that the guys really want to learn, but this confinement prevents them from experimenting. They need to visit the project in question and because of pandemic this is not and will not be possible for who knows how long.

There I had my first epiphany: University curricula are not shielded against pandemics like this one we are experiencing. That is to say, the poor teachers are forced to see a theoretical syllabus that in the current environment has very little to do with reality; and what is worse, the students are forced to learn a nineties theory that was already leaking all over the place and that this new normality has only made more acute….. And this variable is not being considered.

I was telling the kids that I didn’t know if it is

Razones para No contratarnos

Mkt Consulting — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 11:49:00 +0000

“El cliente NUNCA tiene la razón”

Cuando vendes -algo- cualquier producto o servicio; por lo regular das los argumentos al comprador que le permitan tomar una decisión favorable y razonada.

¿Pero qué tal si en vez de dar los PRO de por qué contratarte dieras los CONTRAS de hacerlo?

Los puristas me responderían de inmediato: Eres IDIOTA.

Los ORIGINALES (fans del libro del mismo nombre y del autor Adam Grant) me dirían: a ver a ver me interesa este ángulo, explícate mejor.

El ser humano está acostumbrado a las argumentaciones racionales, luego entonces qué pasa si en vez de tratar de venderte algo a como de lugar, te doy argumentos sólidos de que empieces a dudar en hacerlo. Que si lo haces, es bajo tu propio riesgo y ya sabes a lo que te atienes.

Es casi casi decirle a tu cliente que ya sabe a lo que se atiene contratándote, que no te engaña, está siendo honesto.

Recientemente en la agencia realizamos una campaña en nuestras redes diciendo las TRES razones por las cuales NO deberían de contratarnos:

La primera razón: Somos una agencia que NO regala su trabajo.
La segunda: NO te vamos a complacer en todo ni te diremos que si a todo lo que nos pidas.