Phygital - Magical Marketing Word of the Moment

For more than a decade, we have watched buyers – indeed everyone, migrate from physical-first experiences toward digital-first experiences: from the mall to the eCommerce site, from the theater to Netflix and the couch.

Our reality is that we are social beings, and we need physical places to go and experiences to share. To remain healthy, we must consume larger-than-screen experiences with friends and family.

Phygital describes a reverse migration from our current digital-first approach back toward physical experiences – digitally defined and enhanced physical experiences.

Phygital – Think about your online profile preferences following you into a store, the “digital you” there by your side.

Think about that store lavishing you with layers of customized interactions (earn your favorite candy by solving puzzles/your reactions to an immersive adventure inform the favorite profile of your perfect bottle of wine), all culminating on a roof garden where you can eat the fruit and candy from your custom basket and sip your perfect glass under a real moonrise.

The best marketing right now is about storytelling. As things get more phygital, it will be about story-giving.

Instead of describing value-charged moments to get your buyer’s attention, it will be about co-creating customized and value-charged moments that tie your customer to your brand with an emotional strength we can now only imagine.

Phygital is story-giving.

Are you and your brand preparing to test the phygital waters? Need phygital design?

John David “JD” Woods
VP, Digital and Business Strategy

Envision Professional – eCommerce Logistics Consulting