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Voices from the floor: Day 1 of Adobe Digital Marketing Summit 2012

Posted on March 22, 2012 by adobeapac | Comments (2)

Anne Russell, Digital Marketing Manager, Adobe ANZ – LinkedIn

What an exciting first morning at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit 2012 in Salt Lake City. I am thrilled to have been able to attend the introductory keynote, led by Brad Rencher, Senior VP and General Manager of Digital Marketing, Adobe, and other great speakers, including our CEO, Shantanu Narayen, our CTO, Kevin Lynch, and Facebook’s VP Global Solutions, Grady Burnett. There was lots of engaging discussion today, but main themes focused on the concept of “your digital self”, as well as content personalisation and predictive marketing.

Everyone has a “Digital Self” out there in the online space, and each of us potentially represents a highly valuable customer to businesses with an online presence. When I go online, I much prefer to see relevant ads that engage me as a consumer, rather than generic ones that aren’t tailored to my needs. Brad Rencher reinforced the concept that ‘personalisation matters’. This has been a recurring topic recently so it was interesting to explore how this is evolving.

Dynamic, personalised and engaging content drives today’s consumers to take action, and marketers must be able to deliver and optimise this in real-time. However, for this to be effective you must be able to understand the core data and analytics across personalised experiences, advertising, publishing and social marketing. Shantanu’s view is that technology is most powerful when it is used as an enabler, and today we definitely have access to marketing technologies that enable this understanding.

If there is one thought I can leave you with from today, it is that based on this morning’s exciting announcement about the new releases of the Adobe Predictive Marketing Solutions, CQ5.5 and Discover 3, I think marketers are in for a treat when it comes to enabling them to take control of their data and drive the most relevant content as well as analyse the data that will help them make better marketing investments.

I don’t know about you, but I’m highly excited to be a marketer in today’s digital world!

See you tomorrow morning for a second day of exciting information sessions!

Here come the Digital Marketers

Posted on March 20, 2012 by jcleelan | Comments (0)

Julie Cleeland Nicholls, Senior Group Manager, Corporate Communications, Adobe APAC - @jcnsingapore, LinkedIn

This week, the peaceful streets of Salt Lake City in Utah will be filled with the buzz, energy and general craziness that can only be generated by more than 4,000 marketers, advertising executives, digital communications and social media leaders. They’re converging to attend the annual Adobe Digital Marketing Summit, and among them will be more than 80 marketing leaders and strategists from across Asia Pacific, including representatives from China, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Singapore. This is the largest attendance at the event from APAC to date, and it shows how marketers in our region are taking the emergence of digital marketing very seriously indeed.

I’m excited to be attending. I manage social media strategy for Adobe in Asia Pacific, and the last 18 months have been a steep but absolutely fascinating learning curve. I’m especially looking forward to hearing from keynote speakers including Twitter founder Biz Stone, and Arianna Huffington of the renowned Huffington Post. Our own Adobe SVP of Digital Marketing, Brad Rencher, will present his thoughts on ‘The Power of the Digital Self’ and that’s another highlight for me. But in addition to listening and learning myself, together with several of my colleagues from across APAC, I’ll also be posting and sharing updates from this leading-edge forum for our communities across the region.

You can follow what’s happening at Summit on these social media links:

Stay tuned – it’s going to be a big Digital Marketing Week!