New Business Opportunities in Retail

Digital’s introduction to retail, be it a slow one, will accelerate as the understanding of the width of web and mobile broadens from being all about destinations, to integration into every aspect of business: Find the presentation below or at slideshare.net/helgetenno. As always find the individual slides under CC-license here: flickr.com/everythingnewisdangerous I’ve included the part…

Expanded version of Seven actionable marketing trends

After publishing the slideshow Seven actionable marketing trends about a month ago, I asked if there was an interest in an expanded version of the slideshow. Elaborating on each trend and including some references and quotes from the insights behind them. Unfortunately it has taken me some time to put this together, and I do…

Online advertising is changing because the media business model is changing

Online advertising will change fundamentally during the next year to four years. The reason is more unexpected, and with larger consequences, than anticipated. I’ve written previously on how both the competition to the online ad product (ie. earned media) and our citizens’ change in online behavior should be forcing online media to innovate its advertising…

Mobile Abilities Map Presentation

Mobile is at the forefront of representing a completely new way of thinking about marketing. But in order to understand this we need to look beyond the SMS and the text voting, and start exploring the real potential of the platform. Since the Mobile Abilities Map pdf, published two weeks ago, has received a great…

When the marketing becomes the product

As technology immerses into our daily life and disappears, value based marketing becomes available through new behaviors, inside situations where it is meaningful and useful. This turns marketing into the experience surrounding the product – and in some instances becomes the experience people connect to and build relationships with. The marketing becomes the product, and…

2×2 on availability

Availability can not be underestimated, two reasons for this: 1. First, a minor mindset thing: People want to choose their own arenas, not be forced into one because the company finds it sufficient to only make their stuff available in one place. 2. Then the bigger thing: The missing link between something being a tool…

Post Digital Marketing 2009

This last year has seen logarithmic changes in marketing, fueled by different concepts like Utilities, AR, The Collective Exchange of Ideas, Transmedia, Digital becoming ubiquitous, Mobility and more. I have tried to be a part of some of these discussions online, and have as a result of other peoples shared and collective wisdom published a…

Media as an event

Kevin Slavin of Area/Code states in this brilliant video from 5D Conference (previously published on this blog) that TV is an event, something millions of people gather around at the same moment in time, creating an experience where interaction, collaboration and synchronous action can occur. Putting media into this context, where we create cross-platform experiences…

The Direct Relationship Business

Jeff Jarvis in this video, from the Nokia Ideas Project, states that since the Internet is a connection machine, anything creating artificial middle men, preventing companies from connecting directly with their participants, will become problematic. All that is true for the old Attention Web, but the whole problem seems to be turned into an opportunity…

A New Business Model, for Content That Grows, Connects and Augments

There is a big difference between how the existing media business models work in the old landscape compared to how they will work in the new. Blindly copying concept from platforms where content actually disappears removes us from the ability to create value in an updated reality where content is stored in the “long here”….