Saturday, October 20, 2012



The article above discusses the changing role of media in delivering news. At its heart, the article argues that the divide between traditional news outlets and that of tweets and blogs is blurring. Indeed, a twitter account and online media presence is de rigeur among today’s newscasters and media personalities as yet another outlet to disseminate news.

As the routes of media delivery change, what challenges and opportunities exist for digital marketers? Certainly, respected newscasters will continue to amplify traditional news, but one wonders whether—or how much—the role of certain media personalities will have in posting news (or non-news) stories/tweets that raise the profile of various enterprises. Advertisers are no longer in an environment where they can depend on reaching a whole family through a single television ad, but one wonders at the potential reach of these new and highly fragmented methods of media delivery. Are we in an era where the sum of many fragmented parts is greater than the former whole? 

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