What Google Trends Tells Us About Marketing Today

Comparison of Advertising, Public Relations, Online Marketing and Social Media

So what does Google Trends tell us that we already don’t know? Social media is growing at a rapid rate, sure. But in relative comparison to advertising and public relations, online and social media is in its infancy.

What may be most important is not the growth of social media, but the steady decline of marketing, advertising and public relations. I realize this is only a one-dimensional profile of these trends, but its a revealing one. After all, Google doesn’t lie, right?