Digital Marketing post Covid-19 | Marketers Thoughts

User - generated real time tracker of digital marketers that share their thoughts about the impact on Digital Marketing because of Covid19. We have covered the following four points in the tracker:

Sameer Khandelwal
(AVP, IndusInd Bank Ltd)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

There will be minimum impact on digital marketing jobs, as brands may try to move away from agency led model to in-house model to save agency costs. Due to Covid people will try to avoid going out frequently & this trend shall continue this entire year, the ideal way to reach out to your audience is through digital only but since many small business will shut shops, there will be less demand from such businesses.

Nakul Saini
(Head Of Brand Marketing at SriStar Gold Company)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

During lockdown people are becoming more aware and familiar with digital platforms that will lead to an increase in the potential market base. Parallelly digital marketers need to be hyperactive to reach out to the newly created audience and have to come up with new ideas to increase the customer engagement as well as upgrade their skills to enhance the customer experience. In short, it will be survival of the fittest.

What's your take on advertising budgets post Covid19?

Overall marketing budget will increase but the cost per customer acquisition will have to be on the tighter side so that the financial loses incurred during lockdown can be recovered.

Prateek Pathak
(General Manager & Corporate Head of Marketing, Bloom Hotel Group)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

The impact is huge till Q1 and Q2 but in Q3 and Q4 it will be fine.

What's your take on advertising budgets post Covid19?

It will be atleast 50 percent decreased but mostly close to 90 percent spent on Digital.

Komal Tyagi
(Digital Marketing Executive at Intec Infonet)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Covid-19 has mild effects on DM jobs. Lots of people may loose job while some may continue to serve. Freelancers are on advantageous side. One who knows how to capture projects/clients can save themselves from sideaffects of economy downfall.

What's your take on advertising budgets post Covid19?

I think businesses should wisely think about investing money post Covid-19. As the resources, especially money, will become shorter. Companies should focus on sustenance in the challenging environtment. Advertising budget should be decided after analysing market conditions like customer buying capacity, type of product you are offering, need for your service/product in present situation. You should also look at your essential expense and monthly profit margin.

Sagar Bhutada
(Growth & Strategy, Friyey)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

More opportunity for freelancer and business consultant. Companies will be open for fixed + revenue share + equity model.

Prasad Lingawar
(Marketing Manager at Plivo)

Given the current situation, suggest some techniques that Digital Marketers / Organizations can use

Cut down on experiment and double down on what is working. As CPCs are lowering, companies should not totally cut their budgets. The companies who are still spending would come out stronger.

What kind of opportunities will be created?

I think post Covid there would a change in the way we distribute the content. Online conference would be a thing like a webinar. After chrome extension and Slack extensions, you could see a lot of integrations for Zoom and Hangouts.

Kuldeep Tiwari
(SEO Analyst, Briefkase)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Digital marketing jobs has increases a little. I found many companies who are interviewing candidate over call and then on video call(instead of face to face interview).

Kumar Vivek
(Digital Marketing Manager, QX Global Services LLP)

What's your take on advertising budgets post Covid19?

Not now but in future after Covid. We will increase and focus more on automation and digital.

Ankit Shard
(Account Director - DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK Malaysia)

What's your take on advertising budgets post Covid19?

Depending on the brand - some brands might focus towards branding & driving consideration. Whereas, some industries would have a lean mix of performance + Branding investments.

What kind of opportunities will be created?

a) Cover the basics on Consumer Experience - Opportunities around - SEO,UX.
B) Intent Opportunities- SEM, Social Media Marketing.
c) Engagement Opportunities - AR, Conversational Marketing.
d) Data Opportunities - 1st Party data , CRM, Programmatic Buying.
e) Partnerships with Marketplace vendors & Programmatic partners.
f) Creative comm's Opportunities - Post the lockdown - What got you here - will not necessarily work - Brands will have to adopt a fresh outlook on their brand communication - More Pull based than push.

Prakash Kumar Gupta
(Digital marketing associate, TCS)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Yes it will have impact on jobs specially for Freshers vacancy will be very less till June, But once things get normal, its impact will less.

Nilesh Gupta
(Head Of Digital Marketing at Coding Blocks)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Many economist are suggesting that we would be seeing a situation which will be worst than "The Great Depression" and it suggests that there would be liquidity crunch in market. This will impact all jobs from all sectors but digital will be relatively less impacted as because of Covid-19 there is Consumer shift happening and business would find digital the most effective way to reach out to customers. So keep up-skilling and try some freelancing other than the regular job.

Aakash Sinha
(Head of Marketing at Belong.co)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Digital Marketing activities will increase therefore jobs but the profile would change. Traditional digital marketing methods will have to evolve and marketers would have to innovate.

Vivek Ahlawat
(GM - Digital Marketing, Cars24)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Many orgnizations will not be able to cope up in this scenario. Although they are coming up with solutions in ways like paycut/LWP etc. Still there will be job cuts. but parallely I believe there will be more freelancing opportunities.

Avishek Basu Mallick
(Business Manager, Decathlon PLAY)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Marketing budgets will take a hit for sure as businesses will look to cut losses instead of making profits. Digital spends will go up as "consumption" of offline advertising mediums like print and billboards will decrease.

What kind of opportunities will be created?

It will be a very interesting scenario where digital consumption will increase but advertising will not. Marketers with a strong content strategy will prosper in these times.

Karan Sharma
(Digital Marketing Head, Consumersathi.com)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

In the time of these pandemic. Everyone has realised how important is the digital presence of an organization is. Everywhere we can see that except advertising and marketing on digital.platforms has grown wether it is the government's campaign on making people aware about the disease or the different companies bid to stay relevant in the consumer's conscious.

What kind of opportunities will be created?

I see the up coming time as a period of big growth for the digital marketing industry. The influence of digital marketing will cover even more basic organizations such as mom and pop stores. It's all about creating a good pitch and that would be beneficial and customized to the very basic needs of the clients.

Deeksha Maudgal
(Senior manager, Tata Motors)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

On jobs across profiles there is a huge impact. On digital in particular, I think people need digital marketers now more than ever.

What kind of opportunities will be created?

During the lockdown, we are looking at all the new trends- be it gaming or on content about shared experiences like working from home. There are huge opportunities for social media marketers to project the right communication to their audience

Sachin Tomar
(Digital Marketing Head QuickUwork)

What kind of opportunities will be created?

During lockdown consumption of social media is at a peak. During my recent lead generation campaigns on Instagram and FB, I was astonished to see that in my lead generation campaign the link click ratio is almost 50%. usually, it is between 3 to 5 %.

Gautham Ramakrishnan
(Head of Marketing, Zomentum)

What kind of opportunities will be created?

Companies will try to reduce the spend on Paid marketing activities and will be more focused on Organic efforts. So, there will be definitely higher demand for Organic / Non-Paid marketers in the near future.

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

The perspective differs company to company. Heavily relies on the industry and sector, plus what the company offers!

Pradip Jadhav
(Digital marketing specialist at Arsh management partners)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

In the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic, search demand is down. If your company’s product or service isn’t deemed an essential need than you may want to consider pulling back on your paid spend. Failure to reduce spend can make even the most profitable. After this mess covid-19 only two field is going to boom digital marketing and fitness industry.

Heba Safawi
(Senior Digital Marketing Executive, Timex Group)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Digital marketing jobs would be created but gradually. Brands need to recover from the pandemic first to be able to execute their newly formed strategies.

Rajashree Das Purkayastha
(Content Writer, Tech Pro Studio)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

COVID 19 and sudden lock-down, has impacted businesses and jobs in various sectors, but digital marketing has a different story. It remained unaffected mostly and is expected to witness a continuous boom. Many people are considering bringing their conventional marketing practices into the digital platform, and this is a good sign of change. We can say that COVID 19 has acted as a catalyst to see things with a new perspective.

The World Wars brought social and industrial changes, this pandemic and crisis will have another impact, on people’s attitudes with lifestyle and work. As a content writer in the digital marketing team, with a Kolkata based company; we had the opportunity to start working from home a few days prior, the formal lock-down was announced.

I also had a conversation with my contemporaries who are in freelance writing and the scenario is similar. More businesses are embracing the online platform and there is a growing need of work for the digital marketers and content writers. There may be currently some paying issues as everybody is facing economical strains, there could be low pay or lesser remuneration, but as time passes by; this will alleviate.

In short, Digital marketing jobs are gaining significance now and will continue to outshine after the COVID 19 crisis.

Rohan Arora
(Digital Marketing Manager, Volvo Auto India Pvt Ltd)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

The recent shift towards the work-from-home environment could affect the digital marketing jobs in a positive way, enabling digital marketers roles to increase in the near future. More flexible job positions may arise.

What's your take on advertising budgets post Covid19?

The advertising budgets could see a rise, since Covid19 has enabled a great number of audience to shift to social media and other digital platforms, thus increasing the overall visibility of digital advertisements. More people are now using these platforms than before, and this could impact how much companies would spend, specifically on digital advertising channels.

Vanshika Mehta
(Brand and Communications Consultant)

What's your opinion about the impact on digital marketing jobs?

Businesses are going to be extremely careful about any expenses they make. Therefore, if you have the ability to attract and convert - and are a master of your trade, only then is there space for you in this Post-COVID world

What's your take on advertising budgets post Covid19?

Only well thought out campaigns need to go out. Budgets will be stringent and no one will have a free hand.

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