31/12/2025
2026 - Is this the Year of Analogue marketing?
Across culture, behaviour, and brand preference, we’re seeing a clear shift, people are deliberately choosing physical, slower, more tangible experiences over frictionless digital ones.
Print is returning, books, magazines, paper mail.
In-person, craft-led experiences are outperforming digital noise.
Branded personalisation is replacing mass automation.
Vintage cameras and flip phones, physical formats, and analogue tools are back, not as trends, but as signals of intent.
What’s driving this change is trust.
As AI makes content faster and cheaper to produce, audiences are becoming more selective. They’re gravitating towards things that feel considered, authored, and real. When everything can be generated, effort becomes visible again.
Many are calling 2026 the year of analogue.
For marketing, this changes the rules.
Success may no longer come from doing more.
It may come from choosing what matters.
At Stramasa, we call this The Analogue Advantage™, a strategic shift towards clarity, restraint, and experiences people remember.
We’ve explored what’s driving this shift, what it means for brands, and how to adapt in our latest white paper.
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