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Highlights
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Huge potential for marketers that implement AI, VR technologies.
•Customer engagement behaviors and customer journeys enhanced via SMM.
•Importance of ethical practice and explainability in use of AI and ML.
•Trust is positively impacted via the cultivation of customer engagement.
•eWOM overload can be mitigated by applying new tools and mechanisms.
Abstract
The use of the internet and social media have changed consumer behavior and the ways in which companies conduct their business. Social and digital marketing offers significant opportunities to organizations through lower costs, improved brand awareness and increased sales. However, significant challenges exist from negative electronic word-of-mouth as well as intrusive and irritating online brand presence. This article brings together the collective insight from several leading experts on issues relating to digital and social media marketing. The experts’ perspectives offer a detailed narrative on key aspects of this important topic as well as perspectives on more specific issues including artificial intelligence, augmented reality marketing, digital content management, mobile marketing and advertising, B2B marketing, electronic word of mouth and ethical issues therein. This research offers a significant and timely contribution to both researchers and practitioners in the form of challenges and opportunities where we highlight the limitations within the current research, outline the research gaps and develop the questions and propositions that can help advance knowledge within the domain of digital and social marketing.
Keywords
Artificial intelligence
Augmented reality marketing
Digital marketing
Ethical issues
eWOM
Mobile marketing
Social media marketing
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