How Coronavirus could impact marketing, from e-commerce to the Olympics
Aruba, March 3, 2020 – The outbreak may have a cooling effect on a year that was forecast to see greater media investments, and highlights realities unique to the digital age.
Coronavirus is spreading at an alarming rate around the globe, unsettling the stock market and causing operational disruptions to industries spanning retail to travel and hospitality. In a year where analysts expect to see an uptick in media investments from marketers eager to capitalize on events like the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the outbreak could have a cooling effect and perhaps some less predictable consequences distinct to the digital age.
“As travel is curtailed and supply chains are impacted, [and] if you can’t get your products to market, what do you do? You stop marketing,” Bruce Biegel, Winterberry Group’s senior managing partner, told Marketing Dive. “Short-term marketing dollars can be wasted, so you watch people start to pull back a little bit.”
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