Modern Business Magazine January 2016 | Page 30

MODERN MARKETING that are relevant to us at a time that is relevant to us, and those messages will self-assemble. People-Based Marketing Also see 1 & 2 above. As more people gravitate towards mobile devices, the role of the tracking tools such as the cookie will become increasingly irrelevant. People-based marketing is about linking the activity of web or app users with a form of identification, such as a log-in. Marketers will increasingly become reliant on identity trackers such as Google, Social Media sites, Apple and to a lesser degree news and education sites to track consumers across multiple devices. Accessing this data will be paramount to competing in the digital age. Beacons Found in devices such as mobile phones, beacons are low frequency chips that communicate with other beacon devices to form 30 ModernBusiness January 2016 a network and can work over a range of up to 70 metres. Westfield have recently released thousands of beacon-equipped digital screens in its shopping centres. These screens have the