Observed Signal · Sep 9, 2021 · Forecast / Trend · Source: OnlineMarketing.de · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Neutral
From Purpose Manager to Ethno Data Scientist: Future Marketing Specialists
In a future reshaped by megatrends such as health, sustainability, and digitalization, Online Marketing is expected to embrace new specialist roles over the next decade. The piece outlines several future job profiles: Wellbeing Customer Experience Managers who design and communicate wellbeing-focused CX; Healthcare Data Scientists who extract insights from connected devices and wearables to inform product development and messaging; Purpose Managers who craft corporate purpose and communicate it credibly across channels; Ethno Data Scientists who gather and interpret real-time data to produce audience insights and channel recommendations; and Marketing Trendspotters who fuse trend research with AI to predict evolving consumer needs. The article emphasizes cross-disciplinary candidate profiles blending climate, environmental or social sciences with marketing knowledge, and notes that deeper data-driven personalization will be essential as digitalization advances. It also briefly cites a practitioner from FLAD & FLAD, Simone Schiebold, illustrating industry leadership in future topics.
Article discusses future job profiles and trends in advertising/marketing workforce; not a specific industry event.
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- Future marketing teams to include Wellbeing Customer Experience Managers who design CX around wellbeing across touchpoints.
- Healthcare Data Scientists will analyze data from connected devices and chatbots to generate consumer insights for product development and communications.
- Purpose Managers will help define corporate purpose, messaging, and actions to address societal challenges (climate, environment, social issues).
- Ethno Data Scientists will scan real-time data from wearables and other devices, interpret context-specific consumer insights for audience analysis and channel recommendations.
- Marketing Trendspotters will use consumer trend data and AI to anticipate early market behavior and inform product campaigns.
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Future's Jamie Samuel on AI Disruption, Attribution, and Agentic Buying
In an interview with Mark Challinor, Future's VP of Commercial Product and Go-to-Market, Jamie Samuel, discusses the challenges and opportunities publishers face as AI reshapes discovery, attribution, and media buying. Future prioritizes human-written content and leverages its editorial authority through products like Future Optic, which helps brands improve visibility in AI search. The company also invests in Aperture, a first-party data platform for predictive audience modeling, to move beyond last-click attribution. Samuel predicts that agentic media buying will transform negotiations, and that publishers must adapt by focusing on outcomes, brand differentiation, and consolidation. He emphasizes the need for publishers to disrupt themselves before AI does.
Future Expands Aperture’s AI-Powered Audience Intelligence Capabilities Globally
Future announces global expansion of Aperture's AI-powered audience intelligence capabilities, and signs the UK Government Cyber Pledge.
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