Internship Report

on
Effectiveness of Digital Marketing
In
Bangladesh

Prepared for:
Mrs Ummul Wara Adrita
Senior Lecturer
BRAC Business School

Prepared by:
Satata Satez (11304014)
BRAC Business School
BRAC University

Submitted on:

9th March, 2016

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 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

2nd March, 2016

Ummul Wara Adrita

Senior Lecturer

BRAC Business School

BRAC University

Subject: Submission of Internship report.

Dear Sir,

I am presenting you with this report on “Effectiveness of Digital Marketing in Bangladesh”. This
report has been prepared with the intent of completing the requirement of the internship stage in
the BBA program.

I would like to express my gratitude towards my supervisor and all the people who helped me
gather all the necessary information which was vital for this report. I hope the report will uphold
the standards of a well organized and informed report and properly convey the scenario of digital
marketing and its effectiveness in the country based on my research and my internship
experience at Unifox Digital Media.

I would like to request you to accept my report for further evaluation.

Sincerely,

Satata Satez

ID – 11304014

BRAC Business School

BRAC University

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 Acknowledgement

This report has reached its completion due to the joint effort made by many individuals. As such,
I have to express my gratitude to everyone involved.

First of all I would like to thank my supervisor, Miss Ummul Wara Adrita for the moral support
from the onset and throughout and providing me with the necessary guidance and information
needed to complete this report.

I am also very thankful to Unifox Digital Media for letting me do my internship at their
organization. The learning and hands on experience I gained during my time there has allowed
me to have newer and more refined perspectives about the knowledge I had received in my
courses at BRAC University.

Finally, I would have to thank my friends who also supported me during the preparation of this
report.

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 Executive Summary

The following internship report is a reflection of my work at Unifox Digital Media and my
understanding of the digital marketing industry and how it functions.

My internship had started on the 1st of September 2015 and ended on 3rd February 2016. During
these four months, I was rather treated as a full-time employee at my workplace and gathered
experience that helped me grasp a basic idea on how digital agencies function in Bangladesh.

The report initially contains a brief introduction of Unifox and some of the services it provides.
Afterwards, the significance of the study is mentioned along with the services Unifox provides.
The Effectiveness of Digital Marketing in Bangladesh is then thoroughly discussed from the way
Digital Marketing works to how Smartphones have been a dominating factor in the growth of
Digital Marketing in Bangladesh. Some of the recent trends of Digital Marketing are then
discussed followed by the digital presence of Telecom Industries in Bangladesh. The report has
been integrated with a lot of data tables that verify the significance of digital marketing in our
country. However, like every other industry, digital marketing has some flaws as well, as a
result, some recommendations have been provided as well.

The report has been made in a very short time and some of the data provided on the report may
not be accurate by the time it is evaluated as we know digital analytics literally change every
day. In spite of all that, I believe this report has enough reasons to appreciate the effectiveness of
digital marketing in Bangladesh.

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 Table of Contents
Title Page No.

Chapter 1: The organization 7

1.1 History 7

1.2 Mission 7

1.3 Vision 7

1.4 About Unifox 8

1.5 Services Offered 8

1.6 Adwards and Adsense Clients 10

1.7 Social Media Management Clients 11

1.8 Organizational Chart 12

Chapter 2: The Project 13

2.1 Objective of the study 15

2.2 Literature Review 15

2.3 Methodology 16

2.4 Limitations of the study 16

Chapter 3: Job Description 17

3.1 Job Title: Internship 17

3.2 Job Responsibility 17

Chapter 4: Effectiveness of Digital Marketing in Bangladesh 17

4.1 Digital Marketing Scene in Bangladesh 18

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4.2 Digital Media Analytics 19

4.3 Recent Trends of Digital Media in Bangladesh 20

4.4 Advantages of Digital Marketing in Bangladesh 24

4.5 Reasons Digital Marketing can overtake Traditional Marketing 26

4.6 Digital Presence of Telecom Industry in Bangladesh 29

4.7 Reflection on the telecom industry’s presence on Digital Platforms 35

Chapter 5: Recommendation 36

Chapter 6: Conclusion 37

References 38

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 Chapter 1: The organization

Unifox Digital is an Online Marketing and Software development agency located in the heart of
Bangladesh, and boasts to be the only agency in South Asia that blends the best of the old and
the new media. With the internet playing a more vital role than ever in marketing today, Unifox
helps businesses leverage their marketing strategies on the web while simultaneously blending
core transitional marketing methods ensuring long-term success.

1.1 History

Unifox was founded in early 2014 with a view to attaom excellence in full digital agency service
providing a diverse range of technology services across different industries. The charismatic
CEO of Unifox Digital, Shourav Islam, was successful in availing the license for Google
Adsense Partner Program, which put Bangladesh in the world map in terms of recognition from
Google.

1.2 Mission

The mission of Unifox is to transform the client’s idea into a viable business and empower it
with their cutting-edge online marketing tools and techniques.

1.3 Vision

Their vision is to be the leader in Southeast Asia for online search and Social Media Marketing
and implement fully integrated digital marketing campaigns that drive industry-leading results
for their valued clients and partners.

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1.4 About Unifox

Unifox is an online marketing agency operating in various countries, including Australian and
Singapore, backed by a team of experts. Unifox Digital Media, with the certified partnership of
the Google Advertisement engine at their disposal, helps local online publishers to earn money
though targeted advertisement. Led by Shourav Islam, he says “Google AdSense is a free, simple
way for all online publishers to earn money with targeted Google ads. And for those who are
already doing it, we can advise how better to make use of their website.” Unifox is currently
working with Bangladesh’s largest and first online news portal bdnews24.com, as well as with
manyo other online publishers including ATN, Nayadiganta and Natunbarta.

1.5 Services Offered

Facebook Marketing Services

Facebook is undoubtedly the most effective and renowned form of social media. As Facebook
have introduced the new Ad platform, organizations are now able to trigger conversation with
their target audience and attain massive boosts in their branding and lead generation campaigns.
Unifox therefore, offers a full variety of Facebook Marketing Services as businesses can now
benefit from the power of social media by allowing the experts handle the marketing part.

Mobile Website Design and Development

The conventional scene of web browsing is swiftly altering. Today, penetration of smartphones
among the global population has opened the door to new must-have platforms for businesses that
is Mobile friendly web appearance. Traditional websites often produce clunky performances
when exhibited on smart-mobile devices. Unifox help companies to carve perfect mobile
websites and effectively achieve the desired performance over multiple mobile devices and OS.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The online marketing presence is often measured by a company’s search ranking. A good
organic ranking aligned with relevant terms and phrases allows targeted leads to come into
effect. As per statistics, traffic obtained from search engines often guides to a commendable
conversion rates. Unifox covers all aspects of the SEO game & ensure our clients do everything
right to place them very high up in the search results pages.

Search Advertising (Pay-per-Click Marketing)

Pay per Click is being fast. Search advertising whirls an immediate effect on any business. But
then again, its paid traffic, and if things aren’t EXACTLY what they are supposed to be, clients
could lose a fortune. Our PPC services ensure that the clients get to bid lowest possible amount
for very high advertising positions for ultra competitive keywords, and we track their accounts to
ensure they can achieve that by not losing that fortune.

Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing is currently dominating the digital scenario. Social Media Marketing
currently seems like a reasonable option for a spam free, people friendly platform. The social
media experts from Unifox help create such relationship with the audience that allows an
organization to own a set of followers triggering testimonials, recommendations and word of
mouth.

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1.6 Adwards and Adsense Clients

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1.7 Social Media Management Clients

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1.8 Organizational Chart

Managing Director

CEO

Client Video Software

Digital Creative
Service Editor Engineer
Copywriter Designer
Executive

Financial Content Web

Manager Developer
Executive

Fig 1.8 - Organizational Chart

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 Chapter 2: The Project

By definition, digital marketing is simply promotion of products or brands through any form of
electronic media. The basic difference between digital marketing and traditional marketing is
that digital marketing needs involvement of channels and methods that allows organization to
measure and analyze applied marketing campaigns on the internet. One of the unique features of
digital marketing is that it triggers engagement between the product/service and customers
through the digital media. Such two-way communication between brands and consumers requires
some form of end-user action in order to analyze the effectiveness of the applied campaign. For
example, a facebook page of a certain brand posts a creative on an issue that some consumers are
offended by, as a result, the advertisers are now aware of the limitations that particular post
offers.

With the expansion of smartphones usage, social network and easy access to internet, the digital
marketing industry has grown at an exponential speed. This growth has served as a testament to
the sudden increase in the number of digital agencies in this rapidly growing economy.

Bangladesh’s recent increase in GDP per capita has paved the way for an increase in the level of
internet usage. The low media age and the growth of the telecom sector have also contributed to
the cause. Even though Bangladesh is still inferior to countries like Malaysia and Hong Kong
when it comes technological advancement, the internet penetration is still relatively high in the
South Asian region. To be specific, the number of Facebook users has been growing and is
expected to improve in coming years.

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 Table 2 : Internet Statistics

To measure the effectiveness of Digital Marketing in Bangladesh, it is imperative that we look at

the major industries that dictate her economy and the role of digital marketing in those industries.
The telecom industry and the FMCG are the top two industries that need to be discussed here in
order to measure the impact of this new form of marketing. Currently, all the MNCs and local
giants belonging to this industry have a digital media platform and have invested a significant
amount of capital in the digital marketing sector in order to reach out to their target groups. In
this report, a clear understanding of digital marketing’s effective can be measured as analytics on
facebook pages, YouTube channels and other digital media platforms will be provided.

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2.1 Objective of the study

The objective of the study is to look for information that leads to the verification of effectiveness
of digital marketing in Bangladesh. The report include all likely related topics such as social media
communication and marketing of firms globally and locally in Bangladesh through social media,
much emphasis has been given to the telecom industry as well as comparison of social media with
other medium of communication and companies that are making it big through social media
marketing. Primary information is obtained from digital analytics and personal observation.
Conversely, internet text books will be major source of secondary information. However, company
wise social media marketing are shown in the report.

2.2 Literature Review

Digital marketing: According to Wikipedia, Digital Marketing is an umbrella term for the
targeted, measurable, and interactive marketing of products or services using digital technologies
to reach and convert leads into customers and retain them.The key objective is to promote
brands, build preference and increase sales through various digital marketing techniques. It is
embodied by an extensive selection of service, product and brand marketing tactics, which
mainly use the Internet as a core promotional medium, in addition to mobile and traditional TV
and radio.

Social Media: According to Wikipedia, Social media refers to the means of interactions among
people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities
and networks.

Social Media Marketing: refers to the process of gaining website traffic or attention through
social media sites.

PTAT: The number of people sharing stories about your page. These stories include liking your
Page, posting to your Page's timeline, liking, commenting on or sharing one of your Page posts,

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answering a question you posted, responding to one of your events, mentioning your Page,
tagging your Page in a photo or checking in at your location.
Lifetime Total Likes: Lifetime The total number of people who have liked your Page.

Reach: The number of people who have seen any content associated with your Page.

Page Engaged Users: The number of people who engaged with your Page. Engagement
includes any click or story created.
Reach of page posts: The number of people who saw any of your Page posts.

2.3 Methodology

This report was written based on the information gained from both primary and secondary data.

Primary Data Sources

This report is mainly based on the primary data, which has been collected from observations
through interactions with colleagues and people who directly involved with from Unifox Digital
Media.

Secondary Data Sources:

• Unifox Digital Media’s Internal Reports

•Aticles, journals and websites.

2.4 Limitations of the study

While writing this report, I had to come across many limitations. Some of them include:

 Lack of readily available data in terms of digital marketing

 Due to the lack of time I was unable to provide more data to the whole report

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  The internship proposal is conducted based on several secondary data which were rather
inefficient or unreliable.

Chapter 3: Job Description

3.1 Job Title: Internship

3.2 Job Responsibility:

 Client servicing for assigned clients

 Keeping track of all the assigned accounts
 Contributing to all the business strategies in accordance with the clients brief Looking
after all the social media contents
 Community Management on Social Media
 Occasional copywriting

Chapter 4: Effectiveness of Digital Marketing in Bangladesh

The effectiveness of Digital Marketing is dependent on a lot of factors. From brand

communication to sales growth, all of the other factors through which we tend to scale traditional
forms of marketing can be used to trace back to digital marketing as well. In order to properly
evaluate the full impact of digital marketing we need to explain how digital marketing works,
what are the scopes and who are industry references when it comes to Digital Marketing.

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4.1 Digital Marketing Scene in Bangladesh

The Digital marketing scene in Bangladesh is rapidly becoming one of the prioritized forms of
marketing among the big telecoms and FMCGs. Even though, the traditional form of marketing
still dominates the advertising scene as millions are spent on TV and Print Ads, Digital platforms
are also given almost equal amount of attention. As companies realize that a huge chunk of their
consumers spent most of their time online, therefore, the average amount of capital invested by
companies on this form of marketing will only start to increase.

The content genre in Digital Marketing comes mainly in four forms. An illustration is shown
below:

Fig 4.1(i ): Content Genre

As per the above image, the contents in digital marketing usually come in any of the four forms
mentioned. Static images come in handy and easy to share as it takes less time to create. We are
familiar to static images in the form of infographic or memes. Videos or animations trigger more
consumers as people are more attracted to motion. Even after its high efficiency, brands do not
use video contents as much as static or text owing to the high cost of production. The text
contents offer the minimum appeal and consumers generally want to avoid the hassle of reading
just text. Mobile Apps on the other hand is a content platform where all the mentioned content
type can be provided and help convey the brand communication.

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When it comes to services provided by the agencies in our country, they tend to divide them into
certain categories. Some agencies provide 360 solutions whereas there are few who charge on
certain specification of a service.

Fig 4.1 (ii): Service Type

Content being the centre of all forms of communication, therefore agencies spend a lot of time
on this particular sector. On the other hand Media buying helps organization in strategizing their
online content.

4.2 Digital Media Analytics

Analytics are an important tool to measure the effectiveness of a digital campaign. Up until now,
brands had not paid much attention to the analytics of well designed campaigns; however, in
recent times it has started to become an important factor as it allows companies to realize to what
extent their campaigns are successful. From using Google analytics, Facebook analytics to using

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popular websites such as socialbaker.com have allowed the companies to finally measure the
effectiveness of their digital campaigns.

Table 4.2(i) Action Specification

Peak traffic for online posts

Brands have now figured out when is the best time to launch a creative as different target groups
have different schedule of coming online. One such illustration is mentioned below :

Fig 4.2 (ii) Peak Traffic

4.3 Recent Trends of Digital Media in Bangladesh

Being Digital means being technologically advance. So, as the technology always brings
progress so the digital world grows along with it. With the upcoming technology the digital
media also brings up its own advancement in the field of advertisement. That’s why in the year
2015, the digital media progression is a step ahead from the year 2014. New things are coming

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up and becoming a new form to promote your brand in the digital world. Among all there are
some noticeable improvement happened around us in the digital media those are:

Rise of Digital Mobile Video Advertising

Video advertising is a new addition to the digital marketing world. It adds an extra flavour to the
field of marketing. This form of advertising has been used in different websites, especially in the
news portal, e- commerce site, in YouTube, Face book and so on. It has been placed in such a
way that the viewer will watch it unknowingly and they cannot ignore it. By the time they find a
way to ignore they will get the related message. These kinds of video advertising are very short
in nature, generally is it 10 to 20 seconds. But with this limited time it leaves the maximum
effect. Even it is effective in Smartphone and tab as well. While opening a site it pop up on the
screen and there is no way to ignore it.

Organizing Facebook Contest

This year the brands of Bangladesh have become more involved into contest ideas. For engaging
more audience into the Facebook page of the brands, they are organizing different contests.
Especially the photo contest has become most popular which got a large number of audience

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response. Even dubs mash video contests were there. Few quiz contest during the world Cup
cricket has got a great response. So, the contest has becoming one of the great ideas to promote
your page and brand in the digital world.

E-commerce Growth:

E – commerce growth is more of a recent issue, especially in Bangladesh. If we think about 2 to

three years back, e – commerce were not that popular. The reason behind is the technical support
and increasing credibility of e-commerce. Perfect delivery system is one of the reason why
people are relying more on e- commerce. Especially the demographic change people are busier
now even females are also working at offices which results not getting time for shopping. Even
some e-commerce sites import original products from abroad and sell it to the customers in
Bangladesh

Naive Advertising Taking the Market

Naive advertising is nothing but a form of online advertising. It matches the form and function of
the advertising. There are different types of naive advertising like Naive Search Engine Ads,
Naive Twitter Ads, Naive News Feed ads, Naive advertorial ads, Naive video Ads. In recent
years, the rate of naive advertising is growing rapidly.

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Increase in Smart phone penetration

Global population of mobile penetration is predicted to rise from 61.1% to 69.4 according to e
Marketer. Companies like Symphony, Walton and Firefox have made smartphones in the lower
end of the market more accessible. This means there is a group of early adopters in the rural
demographic who is curious to try out Facebook as internet data packages are becoming cheaper
every day. Their curiosity on Facebook to post photos and then connect with friends, family or
keep up with what their bosses are doing, will drive more users on Facebook platform via
Mobile.

Preference towards Facebook pages over Websites

12 million users on Facebook from Bangladesh search for the business, restaurant or brand to
have a quick overview to know more. Because social media is a conversational platform,
consumers can also read comments and see what others are saying. Website is a one-way street.
So brands continue to invest in the Facebook page and engagement as also try out other social
media assets like Twitter, Instagram too. Conversations in real-time can take place on Facebook
real quick which is an opportunity for brands to quickly address consumer‟s needs cheaper and
faster than before.

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Other Social Media Platforms emergence in local market

We do see emergence of other platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. Instagram is a
great way to promote “photo contests” with hashtags. Twitter is a good way to make
announcements on product releases, awareness and drive sales with consumers who follow
throughout the day. It’s quick , short and easy with to connect with audience. Pinterest is a
good resource sharing board. Though many people forget, links and articles get lost in twitter,
facebook and instagram as there are so many updates. Pinterest is the perfect board where you
can pin things so your greatest resources or content you want to share with your audience don’t
get lost. Brands can create “fashion or lifestyle” boards where consumers can follow too.

4.4 Advantages of Digital Marketing in Bangladesh

Reaching Target Market

When an advertisement is broadcasted on a mainstream marketing platform it does not guarantee

reach towards specific target groups. For example, an Airtel Ad advertised on Television is
viewed by audience belonging to all ages. Moroever, traditional form of marketing being one
way communication does not allow the consumers to see what they want to see. This is where
Digital marketing comes with a difference. Brands can now be choosier and can put in
denominating factors such as age, sex, location in order to cater to the right target group. With
the flexibility and technological innovations attached to digital marketing, brands are able to
modify content in accordance with the target group and thus attain better conversion rates.
Additionally, digital marketing is a consumer friendly platform, allowing the consumers to see
only what they desire, thus creating a rather loyal fan following from the brands perspective.

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Cost Effective

The cost of putting out a digital marketing campaign is comparatively way less than a traditional
marketing campaign. For example, a facebook business page can be boosted for as little as 5 US
Dollars. This means that means Digital Marketing allows business to reach 1000 people at a cost
that would have taken traditional marketing as high as 17 times the original price held for digital
campaigns. The small and medium enterprises usually donot have a heavy marketing budget at
their disposal, but the beauty of digital marketing is that it plays on a level field and gives
everyone an equal chance of competing. If the contents of small businesses are creative enough,
it can easily take on the likes of big companies in terms of making the message across.

Expandability

Digital Marketing theoretically has the means to approximately reach out to the total population
of the country that is 160 million people. Such is the reach because digital media is not limited
by the logistical obstacles that come with traditional forms of marketing. As we know, the 2G
network provided by the telecoms covers most of the geographical location of the country and
the network is going to get better with the emergence of 3G. As technology progresses with
time, brands are going to take full advantage of such expandable factors associated with digital
media.

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4.5 Reasons Digital Marketing can overtake Traditional Marketing

Growing activity of Social Networking Sites

Bangladesh currently possesses close 4 million active facebook users and that number is
increasing every single second. As a result, a lot of marketing is being used on social media sites
such as facebook and many others to reach the chosen target group. Telecom pages such as
Airtel Buzz, Robi, Grameenphone, Kaymu.com etc are making a lot of noise as their popularity
on facebook is growing day by day. As social media now occupies a noteworthy period of
consumer’s time, therefore catchy content are instantly liked and shared reflecting the brand
reach of these posts and pages. Digital Marketing facilitates such interaction which in return
creates a significant number of ROI. As more products are sold everyday due to the digital
influence, this could be an important factor that takes digital marketing on top of all other
traditional forms of marketing.

Growing Popularity of YouTube Channels

As accommodating an internet connection is now cheaper than ever, both provider and customer
can now easily get access to fast internet. Such easy access has allowed the mass population to
avail other forms of media that are as fascinating as social media. For example, the growth of
YouTube users and also a huge number of YouTubers have taken digital advertising to new
lengths as now Pre-roll ads, ads in between etc are seen whenever a video is being played on this
platform.

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The rising estimation of Digital Media

As the estimation of internet penetration is about 24.5% and user pool that is more than 40
million, there is no alternative for brands than to invest digitally. At this rate, the market will
only grow bigger with new agencies lined up to join this industry. Currently, digital advertising
industry market share stand at 5% in 2015, and will stand at 10% in 2016 and 17% in 2017.

Fig 4.5(i): Size of Digital Marketing Industry

Fig 4.5 (ii): Proportion of Advertisement Expenses

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 Table 4.5 (iii) : Media Share

The trend in Radio implies that it has a stable fan following; however; mainstream advertising in
media like TV and Print is forecasted to go down as people are less interested in those medias.
All the TV programs that used to draw a huge pool of consumers, could all be found on the
internet, decreasing its revenue appeal.

Currently, digital marketing is growing at an exponential rate. The size of advertising marketing
is somewhere around BDT 2,000 crore and the size of digital marketing industry alone is
estimated to be close to 500 crore by 2017.

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4.6 Digital Presence of Telecom Industry in Bangladesh

Grameen Phone’s Facebook page & YouTube Analysis

After analysing Grameenphone‟s activities on social media platforms we can state that they are
mostly focusing on social life, their offerings, contest and occasion related posts. For example
during Eid they shared multiple Eid based posts, Post on World Heart Day, Post on how you can
reunite with your friends during vacations, Birthday post of a famous artist. Through these type
of posts they relate and engage their target market group.

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Similar to facebook, Grameenphone has a heavy presence on YouTube thanks to the diverse
range of video content they have to offer. Be it music, drama, comedy or sports, one would find
interactive videos belonging to every genre that the current youths usually flock to. And such
smart presence is not only limited to one channel only. Grameenphone also has a sister channel
called Bondhu Garage, which specifically caters to the trends among the youth and has a very
ultra-modern vibe to it.

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Robi Axiata’s Facebook & YouTube channel Analysis

Robi’s posts on social media platform are perfectly complementing with their tag line “Jole utho
apon shoktite”. Their Facebook and Instagram posts are occasions, their offers, contest or
Bangladesh cricket team centric. They are very regular on Facebook at times they share multiple

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posts in one day. If we go through their page we can see multiple Eid #cowfieposts and BD
cricket team related inspirational content which were pretty engaging as they got good response
from their target group.

Robi's recent association with the Bangladesh Cricket Team has prompted a lot of cricket based
video content, however, their USP on YouTube still remains the live studio sessions featuring
various musicians. Robi in collaboration with Radio Foorti, regularly streams live studio sessions
on YouTube, with active bands or musicians who are adored by the masses. One would also find
videos which are mostly filled with Robi's promotional content but it's the music centric content
on YouTube that makes them stand out from their competitors

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Airtel’s Facebook page & YouTube channel Analysis

Airtel Bangladesh has rather decided to associate themselves with Comedy or Satire content in
most of their social media posts. Airtel’s facebook page, that goes by the name, Airtel Buzz,
almost regularly post comedy content in the form of „Meme‟, Puns or „Fill in the captions‟.
Apart from posting pictures of their current offers, most of Airtel‟s comedy and humor-intended

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post generate a healthy number of likes for their facebook page which in turn triggers a lot of
engagement with their consumers.

Meanwhile, Airtel’s video content available on YouTube is quite similar to its Facebook ones.
Suffice to say, Airtel Buzz, the YouTube channel, is not filled with videos that emphasize on the
telecom network that is Airtel, rather the channel plays host to a variety of good engaging
content such as Airtel Buzz Studio, Satirical Comedy Drama „Ki Obostha‟ and the different
occasion based one-off comedy drama shows such as „Vitamin T‟ . The Airtez Buzz, logo that
sits at the corner of every video is a reminder to its consumers that Airtel endorses such fun

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loving content which integrates well with their target market that is THE YOUTH. Moreover,
Airtel’s association with the famous YouTuber Salman Muqtadir, has also helped cater their
brand content to the specific target.

Competitive Analysis

4.7 Reflection on the telecom industry’s presence on Digital Platforms

From the above analysis we can see that almost all the big telecom organizations have a major
presence on all the digital platforms, specifically Facebook and YouTube. Such dedication
towards these platforms reflects the importance these Telecoms are giving to the all new digital
era. Suffice to say, these telecoms are not investing on the digital scene just for the sake of it, as
we can see the integrated marketing communication is well maintained in all these digital
platforms. For example, whatever Grameenphone is doing on the ATL and BTL scene, it is being
reflected on their digital platform as well. Such aligned form of marketing means that these
companies know it’s a consumer driven industry and if the consumers go digital, the companies
go digital too. Moroever, Telecoms now have separate campaigns for the digital scene only.

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These campaigns not only allow the companies to cater to their online consumers but also give
them instant feedback on how they are faring with the competitors. As we all know digital is a
two-way communication platform, organizations can now easily discover the happening trend
and construct their campaigns accordingly. As a result, the telecoms are now more careful how
they carry themselves online as it is there for all the consumers to consume and judge. The
competitiveness that were seen in the mainstream marketing has now moved on to digital
platforms as well making the digital marketing scene more interactive and competitive than it
ever has.

Chapter 5: Recommendation

More Investment on Digital Marketing – In order for the industry to have more growth, brands
need to put in more money in this sector so that agency ideas are not hampered due to budget
restrictions. It is often seen among agencies that creative idea on digital platforms are put on hold
due to lack of budget.

Emphasis on Video Content – Brands and agencies need to work together in increasing the
number of video content on digital marketing platforms. Currently, the scenario is dominated by
image and text content even though video content ensures more engagement from the
consumer’s end.

Digital presence on all platforms – In today’s world, Brands tend to think an effective facebook
page is enough to create a digital presence. However, facebook is not the only digital platform
out there. Website content, YouTube channels, Twitter and Instagram etc are all needed to make
an overall impression on the consumer’s mind. Basically it’s a consumer driven industry, the
industry moves where the consumers moves.

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Promoting Digital Marketeers – Digital Marketing can only grow as the people involved in it
allow it to be. Agencies and brands should encourage the career prospect that is associated with
the industry and encourage fresh graduates and traditional marketeer to indulge them with more
knowledge of this industry. Organizations should also look to improve the paygrade that is
involved with this industry, as it will only improve the growth of the very organizations in the
long run.

Chapter 6: Conclusion

In order to complete my BBA, an internship period of minimum two months at an organization is

required by the curriculum, and as such, under the supervision of Unifox Digital Media and
direction from my supervisor Ummul Wara Adrita I have prepared my internship report. The
introduction of the report is mainly a brief history of how Unifox came into being and some of
the service it provides. Furthermore, the mission, vision and the objective of the company is also
included in the introduction. Unifox is a digital marketing firm providing digital service that
specializes in social media marketing. In this report I mainly discussed the effectiveness of
digital marketing in Bangladesh by providing datas that suggest the rising trends of digital media
as well as the impact of Digital marketing in one of the most essential industries that directly
influence the current economy of Bangladesh i.e. the Telecom Industry. Moreover, some of the
recent trend in digital marketing is included as well.

To conclude, in today’s modern age of technology and innovation, people are almost always
occupied with something or the other to do. No longer do people only sit infront of the television
after a day’s of hard work. As people are always on the move, smartphones have now become
the media to witness all the day’s happening activities as content include podcasts, news and
YouTube views etc. Such new drastic changes in the way people view content is a testament to
the impact Digital Marketing Industry has had on people of Bangladesh.

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