One Marketing Stream: Upstream Vs Downstream

Tom Edwards
The Startup
Published in
3 min readJul 14, 2019

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The terms “upstream” and “downstream” refer to two different, but equally important, aspects of marketing. We covered the key differences between the two in an article published in 2016 called “Upstream vs Downstream Marketing; Why do so many companies focus solely on downstream marketing?”.

As a quick recap, upstream marketing is focused on strategy and the long-term market situation…

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Tom Edwards
The Startup

Marketing is about connecting with humans. Understand humans first, then platforms and technology.