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31Jan

Top Digital Marketing Trends to watch out in 2022

It’s 2022 and the digital world is wrapping itself around us…literally. At least the Metaverse which is upon us is doing that. ‘Digital’ is now inseparable from our daily lives. So, the ‘digital’ is absolutely indispensable for marketing at present. It seems like something new pops up every night.

You must have recently come across NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). Goes to show how much a grasp the digital world has on marketing. It leads us to our first trend that you can expect to see sometime in 2022.

Cryptocurrencies

This has raised quite the commotion last year. We’ve seen how volatile these are. Yet, they are amazing and could be the future of digital marketing. You will know how twitter had its ups and downs with cryptocurrencies (if you know what I’m talking about). Companies might start accepting payments in the form of cryptocurrencies that are stable and which they find reliable to invest in. That is one huge leap that can be expected this year.

This will reshape the whole world of digital marketing. If it is to happen, it will open many doors in the marketing sector.

Artificial Intelligence

Many big shots in the digital world have been working tirelessly on Artificial Intelligence the past years that saw the pandemic tear through our lives. As the digital world moves forward, so will the marketing world if it is to keep up with the new customer likes and preferences.

Marketers have begun to optimize their pages and products for Artificial Intelligence to make it accessible to a wider spectrum of customers. The digital natives will move onto AI even in it’s testing stage if given the chance. And, marketers must be one step ahead. Be there when they make the shit or before; not after.

Artificial intelligence can also be used to aid marketers in the form of automation and such. You can find more about Artificial intelligence and its impact on the marketing field here.

Voice Search

This comes under Artificial Intelligence but, I think it deserves a special place. With devices like Echo, Alexa and such, people use their voice to navigate the web and find the right products and even buy them. With this in mind, make sure you are optimized for the world that moves according to each command a customer utters.

Smartphones

With compact devices being talked about, you can’t leave out Smartphones. What’s so new about them? It’s not the smartphones that are new. They’ve been around and have not been given the importance they received until recent years. They are useful, no doubt. But, they are- mini computers. We often forget that.

Thankfully, this mindset is changing and smartphones are being put first. Webpages are getting increasingly optimized for these small devices. We can continue to see the smartphone grow in importance the coming year. With beasts of smartphones with hardware that surprises you getting released, this is only to be expected.

Influencers

‘Internet influencer’ has almost become a job title. But, you can leverage influencers for your company’s benefit. Influencers have the influenced. They’re popularly called followers. Influencers who like a company can become brand ambassadors…sort of. These followers of an influencer trust their icon. If you can get an influencer to promote your product, you have all these followers converted into potential leads.

It’s like merging two fan bases. I mean merging the customer base of two companies. This is a great way to reach more people and get more customers. There’s an added bonus if you form a bond with a particular influencer and get him to constantly root for your products. Now, that is going to make you more reputable and make you seem trustworthy. Over time you become reputed enough for people to turn to your products without any kind of advertisement.

Customer takes priority

Customers have always been King. In the digital world you will see that you do not try to convert everyone you see into potential leads. You find what the customer needs and play the tune. You do your job perfectly and the customer will attract more customers. The customer is a magnet for other customer. His connections and his connection’s connections will all find their way to you if you take one person’s requirements into consideration.

New ways of targeting

Be it through Artificial Intelligence or research or other statistics, we are going to see a whole lot of versatility in targeting customers. The marketing world is getting really innovative. Thanks to the pandemic, the monotonous flow has been stopped and there is a brainstorming of ideas everywhere.

Video Marketing Uprise

Video Marketing

People are very easily bored of things. They can just as easily be entertained. Just change the stationary words into moving words. What I mean is, instead of plain text conveying your thoughts to your customers, let videos do the work. Videos hold the attention of a customer much longer and are more entertaining. That the main reason of why YouTube has gained a massive popularity recently.

With the digital market getting increasingly competitive, we are bound to see new promotional videos every month if not every week.

A blend of social and marketing

When stuck at home, people try different ways to connect with friends and family. Most of them do it through messaging platforms. There lies an opportunity for messaging apps to collaborate with various digital marketers who wish to promote and sell their wares through the messaging medium.

When both parties see benefits, it’s a decided deal.

For the latest news in the digital world, keep a close watch on our page. We at TGI technologies, one of the best digital marketing company in Cochin, Kerala, are devoted to bringing you the latest and most useful information on the digital marketing world. We feel it is our responsibility as one of the best digital marketing agencies in Kerala.

28Dec

What is Facebook Metaverse and How does it work?

Facebook Recently Rebranded itself to Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced their new futuristic venture of ‘Metaverse’. Ever since that day, The Tech world is engaged on the hot discussions and debates of what this Metaverse is and how it is going to change the Internet forever.

When you hear the word metaverse, what pops into your mind? I immediately think of multiverse because they sound almost similar. And, they are somewhat similar. Metaverse is a universe where you can live as a part of your life. The concept of metaverse has existed for a long time. And, now, with Facebook (or rather Meta) taking initiative, we may see results quite soon.

We are not expecting perfect results. But, every step leads us closer to the vision of Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. How do we open a portal to another universe — the metaverse? We don’t. We create it. The metaverse as such does not exist. Not in it’s complete form. Therefore, it is not fully accessed by people for what we may in the future.

The things we already know

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are nothing new. They have existed for some time now. And, we may have used it at some point. It might not have seemed as much. But, they will help in building the metaverse.

The vision

The vision of meta for the metaverse is to erase the alienation you feel when looking at a screen and experiencing things. When someone sends you a video, you watch it indifferently. You do not experience the joy shared by the people in the video. Meta aims to bring their joy to you.

Meta will make you a part of what you see rather than be a third person viewer. How cool is that? You get to share moments with your loved ones digitally. It opens a whole new universe. Without a physical presence, you can still be there where you want to be digitally. Time and space will no longer be a problem when the metaverse is fully developed.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality is something we might be more familiar with. The best and most relatable experience you might have had is with Pokemon Go. It is a form of Augmented reality where your surroundings play an important role. This particular example might not be the most pleasant.

Imagine holding your phone against something like a café. And, there you can see more details about the place, like maybe reviews, ratings. It can help your decision making considerably. This is a feasible example and something we can all imagine. Nothing too complicated. The metaverse promises something better than this.

All we can do is wait and see the future of the internet unfold before our eyes.

here is a video shared by mark Zuckerberg on his Instagram page about Metaverse Augmented reality.

Virtual Reality

There are two things that come up when you think of virtual reality today. One is “Cool!”. The other is “Expensive!”. Both are true. You get to experience a world (which is really amazing) at a price which can be hefty for the majority (which is disappointing).

Our experience of virtual reality is mostly limited to VR videos. If you have ever watched one with the proper equipment, you will know just how awesome it is to experience virtual reality. Once you put on the VR headset, you are transported to another world. You can do whatever you want. You can look around and see the world around you.

You’ll be at a loss for words the first time you experience VR. But, unfortunately, VR headsets are not cheap (not the good ones anyway). Meta introduced an affordable VR headset. It intends to make the multiverse available to everyone since it is claimed to be the future of the internet.

When can we expect to see the metaverse in all its glory?

Work on the metaverse has just started. It will take a lot of years. It might even take a few decades. As cool as the idea of the metaverse is, to pull off something like that takes time and effort. Change doesn’t happen overnight (not with the metaverse).

If you have played VR games, you will know just how clunky they are. The concept of the game will be amazing, but the technology of the times limits the execution.

Games like Beat Saber might have it nailed in the VR. But, VR chat, which is closer to the metaverse in what it aims to be, is really cartoonish with ‘not so great’ graphics. You’ll understand once you watch a gameplay of any VR game.

Once implemented, the metaverse will become a crucial part of our lives, and along with it, Meta too. This has some people worried. Meta as Facebook didn’t have a reputation for being the best company which puts customer interests first. It’s a worrying thought.

Is Meta meta?

Is Meta playing the meta (most effective tactics available)? Is Meta directing attention away from the problems the company is currently facing and turning heads with a new innovation — the metaverse? Some people believe this is the case. It might also be to gain an upper hand as Apple and Google hold Meta on a leash right now.

With the introduction of the metaverse, Meta will no longer have to be controlled by either of the companies mentioned above. No operating system restrictions, because they could make one of their own and as such, being the pioneering founder of the metaverse, Meta will have an unspoken authority over the others.

Meta will effectively control the digital world if this is the case. It’ll be what one could call a monopoly. But, it has been promised that the metaverse is not the construct of one company alone. It will be built by anyone who wants to. Any and all contributions are welcome.

Even though it is an open project, there is still a certain level of uncertainty as to what might happen after the metaverse is functional.

Is the metaverse good?

We will be in a virtual world with virtual avatars designed by people and we will interact with them. Some people might see it as a way out of their boring everyday lives. Digital health might be at a risk. People have expressed their concerns about the same. Will it, by bringing people closer together digitally, rob them of their real life.

People will prefer their digital world which they have constructed over the gloomy real world in which they have been put by fate.

All we can do is wait and see what the future has in store for us as nothing conclusive can be stated so early in the development of the metaverse.

For more news on such new developments in the digital world, stay tuned to our website. We at TGI Technologies, one of the best Digital Marketing Companies in Kerala, aim to bring you the latest news without filters or false information. We are a digital marketing agency in Kochi, Kerala, aiming to make people more digitally aware as the future looks digital (that is what people say and we want you to be as knowledgeable as the next guy if not more).

29Nov

Google MUM : Multitask Unified Model

What does the digital future look like? Yup, you talk to some machine and it responds like a human. That’s what sci-fi movies, at least, have planted in our brains. And, things have been turning that way recently. Machines are made to adopt a conversational tone for that one-on-one conversational vibe.

Big players in the digital field like Microsoft, with its new Windows 11, and others have already started this transition process. The Multitask unified Model (MUM) aims to do this with other major improvements.

The Base

It is a refined version of the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). It is more receptive and adaptive to the human way of speech and communication. MUM aims to go further than BERT.

Ease and integration

Finding something on Google is not extremely simple. Some searches take more than a single try to get you what you really need. The average number of searches is estimated to be eight for complex queries. MUM aims to bring down this number. Through various new features, MUM is targeted at the ease of use of the consumer.

We can expect different aspects of MUM to be integrated into the Google browser in future updates.

Recommendation

E-commerce is nothing new. MUM makes a buyer’s journey as smooth as possible through improved recommendations. It lifts much of the tedious work required on the part of the customer to find the right product.

Google Lens

This addition is amazing and is quite a welcome surprise. MUM gives more importance to Google Lens. How exactly does it do that? Well, you could be looking for something with a certain pattern. Click a pic and ask what you want with a similar design. This short clip should help you understand better.

It also helps you find stuff. You could click a pic of something and ask where to buy that or how to fix a broken one or get a replacement. A pretty handy feature, right? Google LENS MUM update

Image Priority

Text content and videos have stayed at the top of the SERP for a while now. Now, images will share the place. Images used to be there. But, they will now be more prominent. If a query requires an image result, the images will be more pronounced. Images will be larger and the SERP will be sort of covered in images.

This might be a good time to work on relevant images for your webpage to stay on top. Speaking of staying on top…Well, there’s a bit of an issue which we will come to later.

Relevance

Things pop up based on relevance and how do you know what is relevant? Google was not the best picker. It is trying to improve with MUM. It goes deeper into content, especially videos. The closed captions help on determining the relevance of a video for a particular query.

Now, video recommendations will be better than ever with videos being analyzed more deeply.

Also, there is a hierarchy order when it comes to queries. Content, video or image? Well, depends on each query. A query that goes: “How to…” might give you more video results while something that has ‘inspiration’ or ‘reference’ in it might bring up more image oriented results.

Updated features with new names

We’re all familiar with people also ask section in the Google SERP. With the complete implementation of MUM, this section will become ‘Things to know’. From the name itself, we can see that it goes beyond a few inquiries. It gives you an opportunity to know all that is essential about a subject.

Similarly, the ‘Related Searches’ will become ‘Broaden This Search’ and ‘Refine This search’. Well, there isn’t much of a difference in this section except that the options from where to go after your initial query will be more refined. It won’t stick to a particular thing and limit you but, broaden horizons for searching.

The suggestions are confident which is great. If it’s something that seems worthwhile, you can know more about it. If not, you can carry on regularly browsing.

The good old links

Well, links have always been the core of the browsing experience. This changed with the introduction of featured snippets. And, with progress (MUM), the links have been pushed farther down the page. With the featured snippets, Google cut down on the initial ten links and with MUM, the links will be sidelined.

This takes us back to the staying at the top thing. Well, with the links being pushed down by information filled snippets, links will attract lesser people. People browse for information and when they get precisely and concisely the information they seek, they will no longer need the links.

Versatility

With MUM Google will be more versatile than ever. The context of a query will play a huge part in MUM. Two people looking up the exact same thing in different contexts will be presented with entirely different Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).

What makes this ‘context’? Your search history, location history, preferences, etc. Which Google can collect makes up this context.

To be or not to be featured

With Google becoming more Wiki-oriented, i.e., focused on information, rankings wouldn’t matter. You will either be featured or not. It is the content that matters. Earlier, the SERP was based on keywords and the frequency of keywords determined the position of a link on the SERP.

Things have evolved and clear, concise content takes priority over content filled with keywords. This is because of the conversational tone of questions and Google becoming more information based. Sometimes, Google may analyze and extract only the necessary parts from a link. The thing is to be featured. That is what is important now.

Is SEO a thing of the past?

No. Most definitely not. The core remains the same. Google is not undergoing a drastic change. The base algorithm of analyzing and picking data is the same. It’s just been refined. Newer elements of SEO become more prominent with such a change. SEO, like always, is still a major part of being where you want to be in the SERP.

Appeal

The thing to do now is appeal to the customer. Your website should be more customer oriented. It should have all the answers to any question that the customer may have. Think as a customer. And answer any question that a customer is most likely to ask. Keep things conversational.

Google Merchant Centre

You should be registered on the Google Merchant Centre if you are running a business. When a customer is searching for products, Google pulls up a handful of products that are verified through the Google Merchant Centre. This is why being registered on the Google Merchant Centre is important.

Things have changed a bit. Things always change. We must embrace change and move forward. If you are worried about all these new changes, fret not. We at TGI Technologies, one of the best Digital Marketing companies in Kerala will help you with any digital hiccup that you might come across. We take pride in being one of the best SEO companies in Kerala. So, if you need a helping hand with the new improvements that come with MUM, don’t forget to give us a call.

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