Digital media has brought remarkable tech changes in old copywriting. New technologies have further transformed old copywriting thanks to the internet.
In traditional copywriting, advertising text is used in print and audio media. It also appears on television and on other video media. Companiesbuse it for selling their merchandise and services. It informs the customers and audience how the product/service benefits the purchaser. Later, it started influencing the behaviour of the buyers and prospective customers.
The Internet has changed the traditional way of copywriting
The Internet has changed the traditional way of writing an advertisement. Now algorithms influence relationship building between the seller and buyer. You can find such algorithmic influenced writing in content creation, updates in social media, and blogging platforms. The use of algorithms has greatly affected copywriting.
In today’s business world, the main purpose of copywriting is to create an intellectual and emotional impact. It is done with the magical use of words, phrases, and parsing of the language on the psyche of the readers. In turn, it has become a tool for profitable commercial activities. That is the additional benefit of copywriting use as an influencing form of content in today’s many technologies, print, audio, and video platforms.
The Internet has revolutionised our lives, and altered things upside down. Some things disappeared or became irrelevant like landline phones that are still in use. Many things appeared anew. Many technological innovations happened like smartphones that further changed the way of copywriting.
Tech influence on copywriting
Yet, we people are the same with the same brain. Some are the same products and some new products. Nonetheless, copywriting transformed. Its goal is the same as the traditional one, i. e modifying the buyers’ behaviour. Using the same psychology, presenting the written copy with catchy words with existing new technological developments has become the norm. After all, no decisions are free of emotions.
Hypertext allows presenting to the reader of your sales copy with an option to follow hypertext or not so that they can read what they want to read. Also, hypertext allows you to describe your entire catalogue, whether the reader follows it or not. Further search options changed the way one can find your copy. This led to search engine optimisation to attract readers to your copy. That is the way how copywriting has changed. You thus present your copy through multimedia, both textual and animation form. Whatever such advancements may be, it still needs writing.
Copywriting for print media and multimedia
Well, writing on the web differs from other digital channels like mobile phones. In fact, writing for print media, television, mobile and social media also differs from each other. Again, writing for different social media also differs from each other. Similarly, writing for web users differs from print media users. So, writing for each channel differs from each other channel.
We are all users of each such channel and read what is written from time to time, and at different times. But the needs of each of us do not change. We shop, read print media, surf digital media, and the web.
Our needs are the same and existed before and after the arrival of the internet on the scene. But none of our needs are met by such digital media but by only gaining knowledge through them about the existence of means of where our needs can be met.
Digital searching shows wider options for the means for us to meet our needs. Before the advent of the internet, we had to physically search for the existence of the means to meet our needs. Here also use of copywriting was limited to print, audio, and television media. The difference is that digital search is unlimited in the internet era, whereas physical search has limitations.
Copywriting as content marketing
The digital screen offers vast information, and it is up to you how you can scan and cull out what you need and looking for. Digital has changed writing content, and thus content marketing has arisen. Copywriting has also blended with content marketing, becoming a part of it. It persuades you and me to tape our emotions or influence our behaviour for buying both tangible and intangible things.
