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Simone Douglas, CEO at Digital Direction, Digital Adelaide 2022 speaker
Digital Adelaide 2022

Simone Douglas

CEO

Digital Direction

Simone Douglas is the CEO of Digital Direction and a respected voice in the Australian marketing community. She has presented at Digital Adelaide multiple times — delivering the Digital Marketing Landscape Overview in 2019 and speaking on grassroots advocacy through social media in 2022. Simone brings a big-picture perspective on how digital marketing is evolving and what it means for businesses trying to build genuine community and influence.

Past appearances

Session Archive

Simone Douglas

Publican & Executive Director, Adelaide Hospo Collective

Getting the community to take action: Grass roots advocacy through social media

The Adelaide Hospo Collective started in December 2020 with zero marketing budget and an industry in crisis. Simone Douglas shared how a grass roots social media campaign garnered huge amounts of traditional media coverage and facilitated real, meaningful change — proving that organic advocacy, when done right, can outperform paid media.

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