One-Way Advertising Has A Place
Business Week, Friday, January 18, 2008 11:30 AM
A McKinsey report predicts that "traditional TV advertising will be one-third as effective in 2010 as it was in 1990." In today's environment, where independent information is plentiful, traditional one-way messages to consumers no longer work.
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As a new set of community technologies develop on the Internet, we should not be surprised to discover that the sociology of how we buy will come to resemble pre-industrial markets. In the post-industrial world, reputation, relationships and recommendations can come at any time from anywhere to affect a purchase decision.
Before you entirely discard the notion of advertising, however, it is worth noting that it can and will change. Companies will recognize that there is a conversation going on in the marketplace that they should join, not dominate. And once a company has become a part of the conversation, conventional one-way advertising can draw attention to the conversation and to the company's participation.
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