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TL;DR: Marketing trends will continue to shift A LOT this year... Writing about 2024 marketing trends, I focused on the Big Five of trends, including Gen Z social media, UGC-style content, AI hype going down (I was wrong) and sustainability going up. An important shift form the early 2020s is that marketing strategies, tactics, and channels have become increasingly differentiated among B2B v.s. B2C, virtual v.s. physical products. Also, thereβs a whole new space of AI marketing tools, the...
Are industry trend reports worth the marketing investment? Last week, I wrote about creating a 30-page industry report for a B2B brand I'm working with. It took me ca 55h to research, write, design, and promote it, plus report on results. Was this enormous undertaking worth it? Many B2B software behemoths (HubSpot, Adobe, Salesforce), by launching and promoting "X Year Trends in X" reports seem to validate the strategy. But what about the small B2B brands just entering the market? Based on my...
Ever downloaded an industry trend report or e-book? As for me, I've downloaded 100+ of those.... Why? The landing page text might say things like "we polled nearly 1,800 designers and developers from four continents..." (Figma) but, of course, I never read the promo text. Because it's the impeccably designed cover that gets me. Like 8 billion other human animals, I'm a visual creature. The design team at Intercom wins the beauty pageant β as well as my email address that I exchange for the...