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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

It was called “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the British band The Buggles and was aired at 0001 hours on August 1, 1981, the day the cable station was launched in the U.S. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry. And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come.

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What’s Changed, What Hasn’t in Media Relations

Biznology

The news media, it was believed, would be one of the first industries to be “disintermediated,” a multisyllabic word for “cutting out the middleman.”. Besides the hundreds of channels on cable TV, newsstands are still crammed with magazines and the radio in my car still picks up dozens of stations.

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