Assignment 1 DBI
Assignment 1 DBI
Miss Gan
Group Assignment
Assignment 1
By:
Name Students ID
TASNIM FARHANAH BINTI
FBI1908039
AZIZI
ANIS SYAMIMI NADHIRAH
FBI1908042
BINTI AMIR SYAHROM
SIM ZI YING FBI1908087
DIMAS ALFIA RISZAZRINA
FBZ1908093
BINTI MOHD DARDIRI
MUHAMMAD FIKRI HADI
FBZ1908097
BIN ELHAM
Table of Contents
Section 1...............................................................................................................................................3
Section 2...............................................................................................................................................6
Section 3...............................................................................................................................................7
Section 4...............................................................................................................................................8
Appendix..............................................................................................................................................9
References...........................................................................................................................................12
References...........................................................................................................................................13
TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY REPORT
ASSIGNMENT 1
Section 1
Refers to the influencer statistic there is 38.8 % of marketers said that influencer marketing
is important to their brand of agency. For instance, Malaysia telecommunication are tend to
used social media and influencer to broaden their business through digital marketing which is
Facebook, Youtube advertisement, Instagram as well Twitter. There also give incentive to the
influencer that help them posting and promoting through social media [ CITATION San19 \l
17417 ].
Since the technology is getting better each day, they have the most recent of broadband
connection which is 5G. Many people doesn’t know that 5G stands for 5 th Generation. The
function is way better. It provides the greater speed and at the same time can max the ability
to connect for more that one device. This is the highly future massive changes of telecom.
[CITATION Placeholder3 \l 1033 ]
Section 2
There are three types of digital marketing strategies used in the industry such as paid media,
earned media and owned media. Paid media is purchased media where investments are made
to pay for guests, coverage or otherwise. Earned media is publicity produced by public
relations and word-of – mouth. For owned media, it is the company's own control at a high
stage.
Firstly, paid media. telecommunication industries use various advertising channel. One of
them is display ads which called Trueview InStream which is skippable and long format ads.
This type of ads can normally be found on YouTube when you are watching any videos for
action. For example, Celcom has an TrueView InStream type of advertisement made
specially for Chinese New Year 2020 on YouTube. Next, is through PPC (Pay Per Click). For
example, MAXIS use PPC which people can click the subject in Google and the ads will
appear on the top. In addition, Facebook Sponsored Ad, Facebook Marketplace, and
Instagram sponsored Ad as well as Spotify ad are also considered as paid media. For
instance, Maxis and Digi are advertising their product through those platforms when there are
conducting some promotion activity.
Secondly, earned media. The earned media of the telecommunication industry is based on
reviews. These reviews can normally be found at comparison website such as Bitcatcha. For
example, Maxis Broadband is having 4 stars for their speed under Bitcatcha. Also,
telecommunication industry usually also has taglines and hashtags trended by the consumers.
For example, Celcom’s consumers trended #CelcomBestMOMents on Mother’s day featuring
videos from Celcom related about Mother’s and customer also can use another hashtag which
is #MaxisOne to complain about the Maxis’ customer service on Instagram. Umobile also get
a lot of earned media because of their unlimited plan for only RM30 which is cheap price for
a month. Then, the people are talking about their brands and suggesting with their members.
Lastly, owned media. Most of the telecommunication industry will have their owned media to
let user explore their product through their owned web page, or application. The main
purpose for having these methods is to let user easy get the information and they can know
the promotion up to date. For example, Malaysia have several quite common brands of
telecommunication they have their own web page or social media account to promote their
services and product as well as application. Another owned media advertising would be
social media advertising. Using their own social media for example Instagram, it costs
inexpensive and sometimes free and easy to promote the sales and promotion and interact
better with customers. In addition, telecommunication industries such as Maxis and TM are
having their own mobile apps to update any news or offers faster and easier. Customers can
also view and pay for their bills by using these apps. Moreover, telecommunication industry
is also be using text message advertising to advertise to their customers which send by their
own company. According to EzTexting (2020), which referring from Teradata, only 29% of
Tweets, 21% of emails, and 12% of Facebook posts are ever read. Text messages, on the
other hand, have an astonishing 98% read rate—90% within three minutes of sending
[ CITATION EzT20 \l 17417 ] . On top of that, they have youtube account to create the videos and
those videos will appear on top of suggestion videos on our youtube channel.
Section 3
Every coin has two sides which digital marketing strategies also came with strength and
weakness. First of all, the two digital marketing strategies bring a lot of outcome to the
telecommunication industry. The two types of digital marketing that we can evaluate in the
industry are paid media and owned media. As we paid media is defined as the purchase
media for investment and be pay to broadcast your brand to the bigger source of audience.
For owned media is, the company can control their own channels at a high stage.
The reason why paid media can be so useful because according to the [CITATION The19 \l
1033 ], Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world. The strength for Facebook
sponsored advertise is it can be directly contact with the audience and it is very effective for
product development. On the main benefits for Facebook is the company can direct contact,
communicate with visitors like setting up user-friendly chatbot in the website to easily
communicate with customers for better customer service. This shows that sponsored
advertisements can really reach out for the bigger audience. The weakness for this type of
media the audience may started to unfollow or felt unhappy when the pages not at work or
share widely. Therefore, the audience may think that is the pages is not working anymore or
the pages is only a fake account created, it will loss the trust from the audience.
Another Facebook platform which applying paid media would be Facebook marketplace.
There are several strengths of Facebook marketplace. Firstly, it won’t charge buyer and seller
to buy or sell when using their platform. Secondly, it has a good filter system that allows
customers to get very specific about what they want and lastly, the process to post up our
item is uncomplicated. On the other hand, the weaknesses are such; buyer’s protection is not
available. Furthermore, there’s no section for buyers to provide feedback/reviews. Moreover,
Facebook username and profile exposed when you sell or buy an item in the Marketplace
[ CITATION Eli19 \l 17417 ]
Next will be owned media. Most of these telecommunication industries have their own
websites and webpage to advertise their company’s promotion or product as well as the
company background and more information that will show in their own website. For
example, Amway Malaysia that shows the monthly promotion on their webpage so that
potential buyer would know about the information and also, they have the info about the
company background.
The strength for this type of strategies is the company provides customer a way to interact
with their own brand through the content that is special and different. On the other hand, this
can represent the good opportunity for business improve relationship with existing customers
and cultivate relationships with new prospects. Other than that, simple payment process from
customers which they will go to the website of our bank and transfer the money to the desired
account and can swipe their cards and pay their bills, which is safer and faster. For the
common example we can take Shoppe that according to Pang Tun Yau (2019), ShopeePay is
primarily designed as a means to enable instant payment for any purchase on Shopee.
Lastly, this digital strategy is taking a very long time to scale the market and its very
challenging to reach to their new audience. Moreover, the information that we share on
websites is completely traceable. This may be used for crime prevention or gaining market
data but our privacy is at stake. The possibility will occur that website can be hacked or
crashes. Without any written data or bills it’s impossible to track down past activities and
transactions made, the company can easily be shattered.
Section 4
The suggestion to improve the strategies is keep and make sure that the channel are working
all the time. This is due to the reason that there are many competitors in telecommunication
industry such as Maxis they using many platforms to promoting their services. As a result,
there have very strong customer services to the user which they could easy to communicate
their problem through the online customer service or website to solve the problem effectively.
When planning a digital strategy across different platform, it can be a huge challenge to
understand the need and demand for the audience, to make sure that meet the customer’s need
the company should always keep updating their channel or platform work well. Therefore,
they could build a strong platform between the customers and fulfil the customer’s demand as
well as maximize the satisfaction of the customers. For instance, Digi as well as Celcom
company and more telecommunication company there are very active in carry on promotion
plan to attract customers. The consumer can easily get the brochure through online and only
one click and get all the information. Moreover, try to keep the customer front of mind which
is working closely with the platform such as Facebook, Google, Youtube is a key to
identifying relevant, valuable audience and break new group for new customers acquisition
chances.
From the other view, one of the social media’s weakness is these market platforms is hardly
considered by customer as highly trustworthy and reliable. This industry can try to improve
their marketing strategy through posting the review or feedbacks from the customers that
show about the using experience. It can be video, pictures, screenshot that proof the
reputation of their own company. For instance, they can post their conversation with the
customers about the feedbacks after using Maxis, Digi or others company that related
telecommunication industry on any platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or etc. As
an examples, Facebook Marketplace is sellers need to build a professional page without
including inside information in order to avoid personal profile getting exposed to public and
inside the page, customers can review from comments sections below posts.
Lastly, the suggestion is for paid review is, do not keep making paid review to all the
influencer because sometimes people get annoyed that the influencer review the same product
and using the same words all over again. It shows no pure or natural thing of the products. It
shows that they doing that because of they have been paid not the sincere reviews from them.
So it will confuse the consumer or prospects to make a purchase of the goods.
Appendix
Hashtag #CelcomBestMOMents
Hashtag #MaxisOne
(earned media)
(earned media)
Text message advertising Text message advertising
(owned media) (owned media)
Facebook Sponsored Ad
Instagram Sponsored Ad
(paid media)
(paid media)
Celcom’s TrueView InStream Ad, Reviews on Maxis, Bitcatcha
Youtube ( paid media)
(earned media)
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