Digital marketing is exploding right now. As sales departments and event coordinators around the globe grapple with business-relevant social distancing, it's digital that earns the benefit.

Where does it all go when (or if) things return to more normal practices? Well, if it ever happens, it is looking like next spring/summer anyway, so most of us will have a full year of budget and marketing planning to go through. That means this digital spike brought by COVID-19 is likely to continue, possibly curving even higher.

There are speed bumps over the next 6-9 months: Privacy legislation, the death of the cookie, politicization of social media, continued lack of transparency, and things not yet in the way. Money has fixed a number of these issues in the past, or at least taken the attention away from them. Given how devastating some of these could be, I'll pin my current hopes on a repeat.

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