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Digital Essays 2022: Is social media taking over ZMOT? – by Fusion5’s Natale Panella

As the market share for discovery and search shifts from search engines to social media, brands are finding new ways to get noticed, says Fusion5’s Natale Panella

By Natale Panella, head of digital, Fusion5
Would you have imagined a few years back that brand discovery and web search would move to social media? Recently, Prabhakar Raghavan, a senior vice-president at Google, stated that 40 per cent of youngsters who look for a restaurant online do not go to Google Maps or Search. Rather, they look up information on TikTok or Instagram. This is a strong statement, considering Google coined the narrative of ‘Zero Moment of Truth’ (ZMOT). The concept acknowledges that consumers perform research on a product and consult information sources before making a decision to purchase.
While online search engines maintain their leadership in the domains of discov


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