The authors provide a critical examination of marketing analytics methods by tracing their historical development, examining their applications to structured and unstructured data generated within or ...external to a firm, and reviewing their potential to support marketing decisions. The authors identify directions for new analytical research methods, addressing (1) analytics for optimizing marketing-mix spending in a data-rich environment, (2) analytics for personalization, and (3) analytics in the context of customers' privacy and data security. They review the implications for organizations that intend to implement big data analytics. Finally, tuming to the future, the authors identify trends that will shape marketing analytics as a discipline as well as marketing analytics education.
The marketing mix (MM) is an integral part of a firm’s marketing strategy sitting at the nexus between a company and the marketplace. As such, it evolves together with the marketplace and its ...stakeholders. Over the past decade, three fundamental global drivers have emerged—advancements in technology, socioeconomic and geopolitical shifts, and environmental changes—that have caused major ongoing and intensifying evolutions in the marketplace, its stakeholders, and, in turn, the MM. We describe the resulting evolutions in the MM along four central questions: who is involved in the MM, what constitutes the MM, how is it implemented, and where is it deployed. We identify a blurring of roles and responsibilities relating to the MM (who), an extension and integration of the MM instruments (what), an increase in customization and fragmentation of its actions (how), and a growing recognition of emerging-market idiosyncrasies (where). Taking a look into the future, we observe that along each of the four dimensions, the MM has arrived at a crossroad, with opposing scenarios for its future: (i) more inter-firm collaboration versus marketing-mix protectionism, (ii) added complexity versus increased simplicity, (iii) further automation versus an increased recognition of the human touch, and (iv) local adaptation versus global uniformity in the marketing mix. Applying a contingency approach, we derive relevant moderators for these forthcoming evolutions and provide an extensive set of future research questions.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of a revolution in business and society. AI affords companies a host of ways to better understand, predict, and engage customers. Within marketing, ...AI’s adoption is increasing year-on-year and in varied contexts, from providing service assistance during customer interactions to assisting in the identification of optimal promotions. But just as questions about AI remain with regard to job automation, ethics, and corporate responsibility, the marketing domain faces its own concerns about AI. With this article, we seek to consolidate the growing body of knowledge about AI in marketing. We explain how AI can enhance the marketing function across nine stages of the marketing planning process. We also provide examples of current applications of AI in marketing.
A product's physical appearance is difficult to quantify, and the impact of product appearance on demand has rarely been studied using market data. The authors adopt a recently developed morphing ...technique to measure a product's aesthetic design and investigate its effect on consumer preference. Drawing upon categorization theory, the authors consider the effects of three dimensions of aesthetic design—segment prototypicality (SP), brand consistency (BC), framework. The empirical analysis uses a unique, large data set consisting of 202 car models from 33 brands sold in the United States from 2003 to 2010. The authors find that consumer preference peaks at moderate levels of SP and BC and that economy-segment products benefit from CSM of luxury products. Moreover, SP intensifies price sensitivity, and BC muffles price sensitivity while increasing advertising effectiveness. Two what-if studies illustrate how managers can use the empirical model to evaluate alternative aesthetic design choices.
Influencer marketing represents a $10 billion industry in 2020 and is becoming of increasing relevance for many firms, especially those operating in a business-to-consumer environment. Few firms in ...the fashion, beauty, travel, food, or beverage industries are running marketing campaigns these days that do not include, at least to some share, a collaboration with popular users on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. However, many marketing managers still have a less than adequate understanding of those platforms compared with their knowledge of more traditional media channels and often find it hard to make the right decision in this fast-moving environment. To provide some guidance in this respect, this article aims to give an introduction to the most critical platforms for influencer marketing. It then presents advice to firms who want to engage in influencer marketing as well as specific questions on identifying the right influencers to collaborate with.
The authors study differences in the effects of prices, nonprice promotions, and brand line length on brand shares at different retail formats. Their conceptual framework rests on the presence of ...trip-level fixed and category-level variable utility components and shows how the trade-off between these components results in (1) different formats visited on different types of shopping trips and (2) differential marginal sensitivities of brand shares to changes in marketing-mix variables across trip types. Together, these provide predictions on how marketing-mix variables differentially affect brand shares at various retail formats. The authors use Nielsen Homescan and store-level data from 2011–2014 and analyze the top ten spending product categories across four retail formats—convenience stores, drugstores, supermarkets, and mass merchandisers—in over 200 Nielsen markets. Implications for brand manufacturers managing the marketing mix across different formats are offered. JEL codes: M310, L11, D4
Introducción: La evolución de la mezcla de marketing desde la década de 1960 hasta 2023 ha sido un proceso complejo, reflejando la adaptabilidad del marketing a los cambios empresariales y ...tecnológicos. Esta revisión sistemática aborda cinco etapas clave, desde la configuración inicial de las 4 P hasta la introducción de conceptos como Marketing 3.0 y 4.0, evidenciando cambios significativos en el paradigma del marketing. Metodología: La revisión se basa en un análisis sistemático de la literatura académica y profesional relacionada con la evolución de la mezcla de marketing. Se identificaron y analizaron cinco etapas clave, destacando modelos alternativos como las 4 C de Rousey y Morganosky y las 4Es de Konhäusner, que desafían la perspectiva tradicional de las 4 P. Resultados: A lo largo de las etapas analizadas, se observa una persistente orientación hacia el cliente y la adaptabilidad a tecnologías emergentes. Se destaca la propuesta del Marketing 5.0, que enfatiza tecnologías avanzadas y desafíos contemporáneos, aunque se reconoce que la esencia de la mezcla de marketing permanece a lo largo del tiempo. Discusión y Conclusiones: La revisión sugiere una necesidad continua de redefinir la mezcla de marketing para abordar los desafíos de una industria en constante cambio. Se invita a futuras investigaciones para explorar más a fondo estos cambios y adaptarse a contextos cambiantes de sociedad y tecnología, lo que podría proporcionar una comprensión más completa de la evolución del marketing y su aplicación en un mundo en constante transformación.
Opening the Umbrella Keller, Kristopher O.; Geyskens, Inge; Dekimpe, Marnik G.
Journal of marketing research,
08/2020, Letnik:
57, Številka:
4
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The authors study the consequences of rebranding multiple category-specific private-label (PL) brands by "opening the umbrella" and unifying them under a common brand name. Retailers expect positive ...consequences that may manifest themselves in two ways: (1) an increased intrinsic brand strength and (2) an improved marketing-mix effectiveness. The authors analyze three substantially different retailers that rebranded one of their PL tiers. Consistent with the national-brand literature on umbrella rebranding, all three retailers realized an increase in the rebranded PL tier's intrinsic brand strength, along with a reduced price elasticity. However, and in contrast to the national-brand literature, the effectiveness of both price-promoting and assortment size dropped for all three retailers after they unified their category-specific PLs under a common umbrella name.
The purpose of this empirical study is to operationalize the relationship of green marketing's influence on consumer attitudes via the mediating role of marketing mix towards green products to ...validate the proposed research model in the Taiwanese context of explaining consumers' willingness to be environmentally friendly. The model is based on structural equation modeling (SEM) from data collected from 977 online consumers. The findings revealed that green consumption intention was significantly and indirectly driven by attitude to green products. Additionally, the effect of perceived quality on marketing mix and consumer willingness in environmental concern is both significant and positive. However, when a restaurant has high consumer social responsibility (CnSR) for marketing mix, the consumer attitudes of cognitive, affective, and behavioral model (C-A-B model) is less effective. These findings have contributed to the revival of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and offer a comprehensive understanding of consumer attitude, consumer social responsibility, marketing mix and perceived quality impact that a restaurant has on the ability to raise consumer willingness to purchase green products or food. We provides valuable suggestions to marketers to design from the perspective of green marketing policies and strategies in order to accommodate Taiwan's indigenous green restaurants.
A library as an information center has innovated in branding libraries through social media, one of which is through Instagram. This article discusses the branding carried out by the library through ...the Instagram account @Balaiyanpus.Dpaddiy in an effort to support the digital marketing mix at Grhatama Pustaka Yogyakarta. This research uses qualitative methods with a descriptive approach through field research methods. Research data were obtained from interviews with informants, literature reviews, and documentation. This study found the results that Grhatama Pustaka's Instagram has supported the marketing mix, judging from the SOSTAC (Situation Analysis, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, Actions, Control) theory. The first aspect of situation analysis on the indicators that are the reference is four, namely customer insight, competitor analysis, and current channel, as well as using SWOT analysis has been fulfilled, the second aspect of the objectives indicators that have not been met, namely on unmeasured goals, the third aspect of strategy has also been fulfilled, the fourth aspect of tactics using the 7P marketing mix theory, 7P indicators that are still constrained are indicators of people or people who are still lacking, the fifth aspect of actions where indicators that have not been fulfilled, namely unstructured program planning carried out in writing and the sixth aspect of control monitored has been carried out by Grhatama Pustaka Yogyakarta