Abstract:Music festivals are the global phenomenon which is gaining considerable importance through the event tourism industry. There are different types of music festivals worldwide and their number is rapidly growing. Under such circumstances, the key to success lies in the appropriate marketing strategy. Nowadays, the growing popularity of the Internet has changed the way people communicate, purchase and make decisions. All this has triggered the reinvention of the traditional marketing strategies. As the world becomes more and more connected, keeping pace with the developments and trends is essential for marketers trying to reach new audiences, who are much more demanding, perceptive and fragmented. Social media marketing provides the marketers with the most important information in the marketing industry: the possibility of being completely aware of customers' needs. By being active on the largest social media, marketers are not only able to assess the needs of the customers, but they also have easy access to the customers' feedback -the level of their satisfaction or dissatisfaction, as well as the factors triggering such opinion. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of social media in modern marketing strategies of music festivals.
Apstrakt:Muzički festivali su globalni fenomen koji poprima sve veći značaj kroz manifestacioni turizam. Postoji veliki broj različitih muzičkih festivala na svetu i svake godine se pojavljuju novi. Pod takvim oklonostima, ključ uspeha određenog festivala leži u odgovarajućoj marketing strategiji. U današnje vreme, rastuća popularnost interneta uticala je način na koji ljudi komuniciraju, kupuju i donose odluke, što je podstaklo ponovno izučavanje tradicionalnih marketing strategija. Kako svet postaje globalno selo, od suštinske važnosti za svakog marketing menadžera koji želi da privuče novu publiku, koja je u današnje vreme zahtevnija, perceptivnija i podeljenija nego ikada, jeste da ide u korak sa dostignućima i novim trendovima. Marketing društvenih medija nudi marketing menadžeru najvažniju informaciju koja postoji u marketinškoj industriji: mogućnost da bude potpuno svestan potreba potrošača. Prisustvo na najvećim društvenim mrežama pomaže marketing menadžerima da procene potrebe potrošača, kao i da imaju lak i brz pristup povratnoj informaciji -stepenu zadovoljstva ili nezadovoljastva potrošača, kao i činiocima koji pokreću takva osećanja. Svrha ovog rada jeste da naglasi važnost društvenih medija u modernim marketing strategijama muzičkih festivala.