Media agencies are increasingly engaging their information technology (IT) leaders to assist in new media strategies for their clients. The shift from long-understood media distribution channels to the murkier, more transient ones that comprise new media is forcing media agencies to re-align their core competencies with IT disciplines.
Why IT?
Content is information. Regardless of the form the content may take. With few exceptions, it is created, modified, distributed, displayed and stored as information.
Media is technology. By definition Media is the physical layer supporting the content. The medium by which this information is communicated.
In today’s digital ecosystem, the perception that the two are mutually exclusive is obsolete: Enter IT. Continue reading “The role of IT in new media marketing”
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