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!
