This has been a year plagued with second-screen promises, social TV fanaticism, and enough apps to make your head spin. So how can brands successfully and efficiently reach target consumers when resources and budgets are stretched so thin?
Facial detection technology is making it feasible to do real-time measurement and analysis of advertisements in the physical world and predict the products you will want to buy, based on who you are or what you look like.
Stories are the currency. Getting your content seen in newsfeeds, timelines and tickers is the most powerful aspect of Facebook and the most underutilized by marketers.
We're using technology to seamlessly weave messaging and content into our busy lives, and it's an important opportunity for brands to engage consumers on their own terms.
From online banking to internet advertising, the business landscape has been reshaped by the ways consumers discover, interact with, and absorb information and content.
Technology in the past 10 years moved advertising beyond interruptive one-way push messaging into a two-way participative context. To agencies, this represents more than just a wealth of new media options.
If new technology allows viewers to pick and choose the news segments they want to watch, what will be the impact on foreign news, for example, which is much less popular than domestic news?
So Evan Bayh is announcing his retirement today. I was pleasantly surprised that one campaign had the speed, intelligence, and sophistication to take advantage of the situation. Of course, it's right-winger Pat Toomey's campaign,
Within communities, there aren't a hell of a lot of alternatives to newspapers. It's news we anticipate, and news we learn one way only: from our local paper.
The interactive marketing business has gone through some constructive battles in its first 10 years. Here are the big three and what they mean to marketers and agencies today.
A case study presented at Tuesday's Collaborative Alliance carried the subtitle, "A Directional Work in Progress," and it struck me that that could describe the state of the Interactive TV industry today: a work in progress.