Thursday, 10 September 2009

What is Digital?

An email this morning highlighted to me that not everyone has same view as to what "Digital" is.

Dictionary definitions define digital as the following:
  1. A derivation of 'digit' and refers to systems which process numbers.
  2. Electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive.

For me digital in a marketing context refers to marketing that is enabled by technology touchpoints so in the interest of creating a common understanding I am now wondering what everyone else thinks?

3 comments:

Jules ; ) said...

I could write an essay on this?! ; )

Guernican said...

Isn't it something to do with fingers?

Mark Iremonger said...

Digital: an increasingly useless umbrella term that has so many different meanings it is practically meaningless these days other than to mean the dictionary definitions 1. or 2. above.

I posted a while back about "direct & digital", you can read here:

http://digispag.blogspot.com/2008/08/direct-digital-ultimate-superglue.html

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