This week's Viral Video Friday goes to Kia Soul, DC Shoes, FIFA 2012, and Foot Locker. Foot Locker Newton LOVE to see our own SapientNitro work for Foot Locker make the top viral video charts this week! Congrats Foot Locker team <object width="600" height="337" <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRo0BZVI9ZQ?version=3&hl=en US&rel=0" </param <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" </param <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" </param <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRo0BZVI9ZQ?version=3&hl=en US&rel=0" type="application/x shockwave flash" width="600" height="337" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" </embed </object
As smartphone vendors and mobile operators shift their strategies to incorporate wireless payment technologies into mobile phones, consumers will soon be able to drop their wallet and carry every piece of important payme
<span class="Apple style span" style="font family: 'Lucida Grande';" Monday, 20 June. Review for The Re Calibration of Form and Function Online by AOL, presented by Tim Armstrong, CEO AOL, and Arianna Huffington Co founder, Editor in Chief The Huffington Post. </span Huffington Post : Adrianna opened up, she's extremely charismatic, funny, and overall a great entertainer. Overall she provided a lot more entertainment than good content, but that's part being up there. Her big idea: values online should mimic values offline. She gave a brief history of the Internet and claimed it has been very immature, and asked what shou ld the Internet be when it grows up? All online brand experiences should focus on 4 pillars: 1\. Trust: brands need trust 2. Authenticity: is like pornography you know it when you see it 3\. Engagement: around their values, not their products 4\. Pursuit of happiness .... that was it very enlightening! :) AOL : Then Tim took the stage, here comes the good part. Tim shows state of the art research and studies performed on aol.com using eye tracking to fully understand behavior, attention, reactions to visual stimulus, and A/B testing performed by changing key content units on the page. The result, staggering, Tim concludes that the future of the Internet and effective monetization models will consist of migrating from old fashion traditional banners to new improved bigger banners . Yes! By changing the format, adding more richness, better experience, more video, and making it longer, you can effectively increase the noise to effectively disrupt the attention of the web users and make him look at the ad. That Tim described as Ads with human emotion . Then to try to make this statement a little more appealing, the rephrases it as brands will simply rent 20% of AOL's portal space, so it's not technically a banner anymore, it's a space where they can embed rich content. Much better, phew, I thought the future of the Internet are better banners. Ok, now finally for some real business value. Studies show that 83% of consumers use fewer than 30 sites a month; they use 20 fixed brands, and 10 rotating brands. I found this insight quite useful, makes you rethink the entire SEO and long tail strategy. So that's AOL's strategy? Let's acquire all the top brands to make sure we're always part of the top 20. Finally some words of wisdom: give creativity a space in the web and stop taking orders from the silicon valley. <span style="font family: Helvetica;" <span style="font family: 'Lucida Grande';" Such statement was intended to please a creative audience, but I totally disagree. There is much to learn from the silicon valley, and the future of experiences is a marriage of brands, creativity, and entrepreneurship. </span </span
Monday, 20 June. Review for Beyond the Horizon by PHD, presented by Mark Holden , Global Strategy and Planning Director. Intro: The session was consistent with the overall 2011 theme of marketing technology the role of technology impact in advertising, marketing, and customer experience. Mark did a great job describing a bunch of new tech and putting them in perspective of why they matter for the new consumer. He opened up stating that there are 1.2 billion people in social networks no surprise, but the next 1 billion will enter through mobile. We all knew how important mobile is, this is just a reassurance. Next he explained that what drives technology is us, individuals, humanity. Technology is a human invention to solve human problems, being driven strictly by human needs. Therefore, technology is a consequence of human needs and desires and what is driving humans? What drives humanity is need for abundance: we want everything, everyone, everywhere and we won't stop until we get it. Following the intro, Mark jumped into multiple categories of technical innovations, grouped by infrastructure, interface, and internet.
After my World After Advertising keynote, I had a great interview by Horizon which came out in a print edition back in March 2011\. I took me some time to get in translated, but it was totally worth the wait they did a great job capturing SapientNitro's thinking on marketing, media, and technology. SapientNitro mastermind Rob Gonda talks about marketing in the digital age and the declining importance of mass media By Santiago Campillo Lundbeck At the World After Advertising conference in Düsseldorf, Rob Gonda tried to shock the public by saying that traditional advertising is dead. In an interview, though, Gonda, who is SapientNitro's Global Head of Creative Technology, gave us a more complex picture of the communication revolution sparked off by the internet and how marketing has to respond. Horizon : Your job is to find opportunities worldwide for SapientNitro to creatively use technology in marketing. Why has technology become a strategic issue in digital marketing all of a sudden? RG : People’s relationship with technology is the critical issue. Technology changes our habits and so it’s only logical that technology also changes the way we see brands. Technology puts new filters between customers and brands.
Google Inc. is preparing as early as Tuesday to unveil a new online music service similar to a service recently launched by Amazon.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a move that escalates the battle
LinkedIn has been recommending me people I might know such as Wizard of In, Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, the Hatter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Albert Einstein, and others ... anyone else noticed LinkedIn went totally ballistic?
Apparently Rovio Mobile, the makers of Angry Birds, did not think the success of the most sold puzzle game Angry Birds was big enough. After they already sold more than 2 million Angry Birds plush toys, Rovio plans to ex
Landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd spent four years looking to create a timelapse of the aurora borealis also known as the northern lights , then finally flew to north Norway and spent a week capturing one of the bigg
The Digital Buzz blog posted today a new campaign by M&M called M&M’s Internet Invasion Game. The game was "developed" by BBDO Denmark, and there are tons of learnings we could get out of this. 1\. The M&M's
I was asked to give the opening keynote at The World After Advertising conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, back in November 2010; where I presented a PoV on the future of advertising and the digital landscape focusing heavily on user experience driven by data & technology. The keynote covers relations between people and brands, the evolution of the digital consumer, the evolution of technology and how it changed us, an introduction to contextual computing, adaptive experiences, the Internet of Things, and a few predictions for the next 5 years. The events was recorded, but I have not managed to get the official video luckily for us, someone at the front row recorded the entire keynote from their phone. Find below the full video recording, slides, and an amazing infographic an artist made live while listening to my keynote. YouTube Full Video Recording: <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e ae6d 11cf 96b8 444553540000" width="600" height="480" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab version=6,0,40,0" <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" / <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" / <param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RxFhhWM32hI?fs=1&hl=en US&rel=0" / <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" / <embed type="application/x shockwave flash" width="600" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RxFhhWM32hI?fs=1&hl=en US&rel=0" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" </embed </object
Ever heard of diminished reality? It's much like the augmented reality, except instead of using computers to add visuals, it's about taking things out in real time. That easy enough with a still image, perhaps, but not so simple with video... Technical University of Ilmenau's figured it out, just draw a circle around the object you want to disappear and it practically disappears as the image synthesizer reduces the quality of the image drastically, removes your target and re enhances in just 40 milliseconds per frame, using object tracking algorithms and guesswork to maintain the illusion as a camera moves around in 3D space. The framework's presently running on Windows, but the team says they have plans to port it to Android soon.
