Digital marketing makes the world better place

In this 21^st century, an era where everyone and anyone holds a cellular mobile device or a tablet, has forced marketing to evolve and adapt into the digital world. Digital marketing is the most important form of promotion and advertising. With all the new technology available, traditional marketing is almost taking it’s last breath.

When was the last time anyone ever looked into the giant billboards at the corner of the street? The entertainment industry has quickly adapted to change their marketing strategy for the digital world. Print billboards has been transformed into digital billboards, that makes it easier for advertisers to just change the image digitally instead of hiring a crew to put up and take down large paper posters up. Nowadays everyone has social media accounts such as: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Social promotion will ensure visibility and audience interaction. One promotion on Facebook has the potential to reach millions of consumers around the world that will guarantee the sale of a promotion.

Digital Marketing can be defined as promoting of brands or products and services using all forms of digital advertising. Digital marketing uses Television, Radio, and Internet, mobile and any form of digital media to reach customers in a timely, relevant, personal and cost-effective manner.

Magazines and newspapers are also to become digital as well. You can watch CNN and BBC online, or watch it on YouTube Live. Internet marketing is also important. News agencies advertises on their news website because of a huge number of people are connected with it. And lets face it – everyone at one point of their life has gone to YouTube by now. No wonder there is so many advertisements in front of a video on YouTube.  Once can question why has there been such a shift to Internet marketing? – Well to put it simply, it’s cheaper to use Internet and it’s the most easy access entity for consumers and audiences. And it is the main reason why everyone shifted to digital marketing.

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Video game piracy issue in China

Since 2009, the revenues of PC games have dramatically increased while the revenue of console games decreased in the world. The Chinese game industry began to expand the console game in the market. Its revenue increased 20% in a half year. In 2010, many imitation game consoles with lower prices appeared in the Chinese game market. According to the research of Shanda Company, when the new console released, many small PC manufactures rushed to purchase it. Once they get it, they will use it as a sample and research on its appearance, functions, and features.

These low quality Chinesecounterfeit game consoles sometimes could fool the experts because it also has the same function as original one. Furthermore, people even could not tell which one was real or fake from the appearance of game consoles, but its lifespan is much shorter than the real console. This problem became an annoying headache of some big game companies in China. Therefore, they decided to appeal. Chinese copyright organization realized that issue would hurt the reputation and income revenue of big game companies continue to develop their game consoles. They decided to investigate the small vendors and factories.

The pirated PC games also have the same issue as the consoles in China. Players can easily find many popular pirated games to download for free in the website. So, it causes China’s image overseas to be very poor. The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a U.S. coalition of film, video game, software, music, and publishing groups estimated that American companies lost about $15 billion between 2008-2009 because of international copyright theft. More than  $14 billion of the total was due to software piracy, with an estimated $3.5 billion lost in China. Most of the video game piracy is conducted as the type of software Counterfeiting. Street gangs selling pirated video games can be easily seen in the mass-market or even grocery stores anywhere in China.

GTAV trend

With the release of Grand Theft Auto V (GTAV), the franchise, which originally introduced open world game-play, gave players the ability and the power of choice achieving record worthy success. Basically, GTAV is an role-play mission game. It currently holds seven world records, one of which is the fastest entertainment property to ever reach one billion dollars. And yes, GTAV made over one billion dollars in less than three days. They had a budget of $250 million to develop and market the game. Even most Hollywood movies couldn’t achieve what GTAV did.

Part of Grand Theft Auto V's magic is discovery. Players also enjoy the thrilling and unpredictable story it takes you on. The world is breathtakingly beautiful, the script is hilarious at times, the music is amazing (both the licensed tracks of real artist and the atmospheric original score), but most importantly, the game is really fun to play. It's also a sharp reflection of the worst of contemporary pop culture, and insanely detailed too. The world feels alive. The missions range from car chases to elaborate James Bond-style stunts. Even the city Los Santos, where players get to spend most of their time in, is the most dense, intricate GTA city yet, and it’s only a quarter of the map.

In the wake of GTAV’s great success and the attention to detail of the game itself, one simply wonders about what’s in store for the future of the entertainment industry. Hard work will always pay off. This game has indeed encouraged many game developers to take their time and not rush to finish a game, in order to create an immersive game to give players the great experience. Hollywood has also learned a few tricks about how successful marketing campaigns pay off. In the end, just grab a copy, sit back and enjoy GTAV.