Digital marketplace analysis and mapping

Digital marketplace analysis is a recommended activity during situation analysis to create a digital marketing strategy.

It involves reviewing customer journeys for different B2B or B2C personas as they go through the buying process of developing a consideration set of businesses or brands they may be interested in buying from. Detailed marketplace analysis including competitor analysis is particularly useful for developing a search marketing strategy.

This video explainer explains the approach.

You can see more examples of digital marketplace analysis here.

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Full details on Amazon:

Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, 9th Edition, published 2025.

With Fiona Ellis-Chadwick and Majd AbedRabbo.

Used by: Undergraduate and post-graduate degree marketing students. Senior marketing professionals, e.g. marketing managers and directors.

Digital Marketing Excellence
6th edition

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Dave Chaffey is lead author of several bestselling digital marketing books including Digital Marketing: Strategy Implementation and Practice, Digital Business Management and Digital Marketing Excellence. These are based on my 3 decades experience on digital marketing consulting and training work includin

This site is my personal blog which has ideas to help students, professionals or lecturers using my textbooks in their studies or careers. I recommend taking a look at the Digital Marketing Book Support pages on this site