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Latinos Make Up Huge Piece Of Mobile Marketing Pie (ClickZ)
Posted: 03/31/2011
Mobile phone use is on the upswing among the Latino population, rising 26 percent from 2006 to 2010 compared to 18 percent of the general population. Three key markers indicate that the Hispanic population will continue to drive mobile marketing: they care about social connectivity, they are actively seeking fun experiences and they are open to innovation. The proof is in the pudding: 82 percent of the market has been penetrated; mobile phones are outpacing landlines among this demographic as the primary source of communication; this group is more interested in mobile web browsing than the average population; 24 percent of mobile users have downloaded at least one app; and the group has demonstrated that enhancing their lives through social connectivity is a priority.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Telecommunications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer
Success In Numbers: Choice Hotels Increases Mobile Sales By 250% (Internet Retailer)
Posted: 02/03/2011
Since entering the mobile realm in 2008, Choice Hotels International Inc. says its mobile sales surpass seven figures each month. The sales represent more than 1% of all online sales. Furthermore, mobile revenue is up 250% year over year, reservations are up 205%, mobile page views 130%, mobile conversion 106% and mobile traffic has grown on average 190% each month since launching. “Mobile customers want things as quick and simple as possible,” said Christopher Brya, director of mobile and emerging channels. The company’s in-house usability lab helps further refine its mobile approach. It’s a strategy that seems to be working: the iPhone app the company developed in the lab last year was downloaded 500,000 times in 80 countries, some of which don’t even house a Choice Hotel. Future plans include developing an app for smartphones on Google’s Android platform.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Telecommunications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer
Sweet Sleuthing: On The Hunt For Missing M&M Spokescandy (Strategy Magazine)
Posted: 01/05/2011
Now that the red M&M’s spokescandy has dropped out of sight, sweet-toothed Canadians are on the lookout for the sweet sensation. The disappearing act is part of a contest M&M recently launched, signaling the brand’s first foray into social media, which also means Red didn’t simply vanish without a trace. Fellow M&M's characters will be dropping hints via Twitter and Facebook. Toronto fans can visit Findred.ca, where they’ll access a version of the Google Street View API to search out three locations in the city where the white-gloved bandit might be located. The campaign also includes a location-based element as part of its social media mix using mobile apps like Foursquare and Stickybits. The campaign features postings throughout Toronto, each containing a QR code, which releases a Community Clue to aid in the sweet search.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
J.C. Penney Makes Mobile Holiday Move (Internet Retailer)
Posted: 01/04/2011
J.C. Penney Co. is initiating a major multichannel mobile push with holiday retail plans that include the launch of an m-commerce site, enhancements to its mobile applications, location-based app promotions and an iAd campaign. Along with the full suite of m-commerce functionality such as browsing, searching and buying—the mobile site also includes a Find Near Me button and updated applications for iPhone and Android users that lets shoppers browse the weekend sales circular; create portable shopping lists; find the nearest store to either their current GPS location or to a ZIP code or city name; and sign up for mobile coupons. Location-based services Foursquare, Brightkite and Facebook Deals also play a role, allowing shoppers to cash in for $10 off a $50 purchase when they check in at one of the retailer’s 1,100 stores. In addition to its ongoing mobile coupons program, the campaign will also include mobile display ads on Apple’s iAd network, featuring a treasure hunt through a variety of J.C. Penney gifts as shoppers search for a $10 off $50 coupon.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,  Telecommunications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Google Goes Fashion Forward (CRM Daily)
Posted: 12/16/2010
Google is going fashion forward with the debut of Boutiques.com, which offers shoppers a personalized shopping experience. The launch is as much about technology as it is e-commerce. Using computer-vision and machine-learning technology, Boutiques.com visually analyzes consumers' fashion tastes in order to match them to other styles they might be drawn to. "These days, bloggers, stylists and everyday fashionistas are expressing their sense of style online. We invited them to create boutiques so people could shop their diverse styles," Google Product Management Director Munjal Shah said. "But you have a unique and independent style, too, so Boutiques also lets you build your own personalized boutique and get recommendations of products that match your taste." The site offers a variety of search options, allowing consumers to filter results by genre, silhouette, pattern, color families, and sizes, or even view matching outfits when they search for specific items.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer
Mood Guides Consumer Choice For The Perfect Cup Of Tea (Strategy Magazine)
Posted: 12/16/2010
Tea-maker Tetley discovered surprising results in their focus group testing, namely that tea drinkers are primarily motivated to buy tea based on their current mood. In response, the company launched a new “Colour Therapy” campaign. The campaign allows consumers to discover which herbal tea colour best matches their personality. The site features two threads: “Find your colour” and “Find everyone’s colour,” and recommends the perfect cup of tea based on visitors’ answers to criteria like the current weather, time of day and even the customer’s state of mind. The site also incorporates a social element that allows visitors to share their “tea” colors among social networks. Users can view the color mood of Canada, which is based on Twitter posts, via the "Everyone" stream. A "Colour Therapy" page for Facebook launched on November 11.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Macy’s Magic Fitting Room (CNET News)
Posted: 12/01/2010
Looking for an interactive dress-up experience without actually taking your clothes off? Clothes shoppers had the chance to, quite literally, tap into a 21st-century shopping experience at the new Macy's Magic Fitting Room in the retail chain's New York's Herald Square flagship store. The 72-inch multi-touch screen let shoppers select clothing items like tops, dresses, bottoms, and coats and then superimpose the pieces on their reflection. Macy's hired LBi International to create the interactive mirror, heralding in a new era the company deems as “the future of retail.” The experience becomes even more interactive and social when customers share their new looks on Facebook, or via SMS or e-mail.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
The Ultimate Question: To Optimize For Mobile Or Build An Application? (Marketing Vox)
Posted: 11/11/2010
A report by Taptu, “The State of the Mobile Touch Web," compares mobile web and applications and reveals upcoming trends business should keep in mind. These days, with so many vendors offering touchscreen devices, it’s not just a matter of optimizing websites or mobile, but determining if the site should also be optimized for nimble navigation and rapid loading pages on mobile touchscreens. While retail and service oriented sites are the most likely to optimize for the mobile touchscreen (20% compared to 3.6%), many consumers are already demanding the technology from the sites they frequent. The report states, "With support for HTML 5 features already being rolled out in these browsers, it's getting easier and easier to create rich touch screen user experiences with the browser without having to create platform-specific apps." Google has integrated mobile browsing into its service offerings. For instance, consumers that conduct searches will now pull up relevant apps accompanying the typical search results that can be downloaded to an iPhone.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,  Telecommunications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer
Clearasil’s Secrets & Science Of Looking Awesome (B&T)
Posted: 11/11/2010
Achieving clear, radiant skin is the ultimate goal from the onset of adolescence into maturity. Now, Reckitt Benckiser’s Clearasil brand has launched a new website to promote its new ‘Secrets & Science of Looking Awesome’ brand positioning. The Website uses an online magazine to offer practical advice based on user generated content and integrates social media into the campaign by prompting users to share links and “iLike” via Facebook. “The 11 - 24 target market for Clearasil is going through life changing landmarks and with the new online platform we’ve designed and developed for them, Clearasil is acknowledging the journey and forming a deeper bond with the brand’s users,” said Tim O’Neill, joint managing director of Reactive, the digital agency that launched the campaign.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: North America,  Europe
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Diaspora Code Released Publicly; May Improve Framework For Businesses (CIO Magazine)
Posted: 10/27/2010
A new project, called Diaspora, was recently released to public developers in hopes of bringing the project to fruition as a new social network – defined by community – that promises “the benefits of Facebook without the privacy concerns.” The project’s creators are at a standstill, stating, "We began the summer a list of technologies, and a few bold claims and the goal to make an intrinsically more private social network. The overwhelming response that we elicited made us realize that technology wouldn't be enough." The Diaspora project could prove useful in providing businesses with a framework for implementing proprietary, internal social networks without running the risk of divulging trade secrets or sensitive materials. With the goal to integrate Diaspora into Facebook, businesses also won’t have to sacrifice giving up the social network’s huge audience.
Industry: Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
InterContinental Hotels Group Offers Hospitality With A Technical Twist (InformationWeek)
Posted: 10/14/2010
It’s easy to chalk IHG's, InterContinental Hotels Group, ubiquitous success up to one thing: customer loyalty. Tom Conophy, IHG's CIO, said the company’s core focus is on making customers "the center of our universe," and customer loyalty is vital to growth in the hospitality industry. The ever-growing hotel group, which owns seven hotel chains, including Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, and InterContinental Hotels, keeps its guest doors swinging by making business intelligence one of their core competencies. 200 million guest profiles currently occupy the company’s 25 TB database, with detailed information on 43 million loyalty plan members. The company currently receives 30 million availability requests per day, supported by its own proprietary search technology, the Bottom-Up Optimum Search Strategy(BOSS). "Search is the killer app for us," Conophy says, and with IHG’s iPhone app as the industry’s most downloaded, adding mobility is another success factor with a concept the group has named “Virtually Me.”
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,  Telecommunications
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer
Video Girl Barbie Goes Viral (Promo Magazine)
Posted: 09/30/2010
In true Barbie fashion, the social girl charged the virtual social world this July to build the buzz for her latest professional stint: videographer. Mattel tapped into social networks Foursquare and Twitter to launch a campaign that criss-crossed the boundaries of traditional marketing. The campaign celebrated the new Video Girl Barbie with a scavenger hunt that had fans scouring San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York to locate Barbie’s real whereabouts. The first follower to find the fashion-forward doll in each city won a Barbie Video Girl doll. “We really embraced social media as a marketing platform a year ago as part of a major campaign in support of Barbie’s 50th anniversary,” says Lauren Dougherty, director of Barbie marketing at Mattel. Barbie currently has 17,600 Twitter followers and about 440,000 likes on Facebook—more than 200,000 of those added since January. Future plans include a promotion that puts the camera in the consumers’ hands with user-generated video, as well as introducing other members of Barbie’s entourage, including Ken, onto the social platforms.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global,  North America
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
New Old Spice Campaign Aims To Go Viral With A Little Mystery (Fast Company)
Posted: 08/19/2010
Ad firm Wieden+Kennedy has taken a successful “Old” television ad concept viral. Old Spice, owned by Procter and Gamble, is leveraging the appeal of its TV spot star, Isaiah Mustafa, by taping 30-second YouTube videos in response to Twitter feeds. The team behind the campaign works in conjunction with technology to scan responses and identify the social influence of those responders to choose messages that will create a wow factor and perpetuate themselves throughout “virally-relevant” communities. Wieden's global interactive creative director Iain Tait asserts that rather than using a dedicated proprietary site, the campaign gets maximum exposure on YouTube, especially since the current spots are being watched and re-tweeted extensively. The ability of embedded material on YouTube to be liked, shared, favored and dispersed quickly factored into the decision for which social medium to use. Heeding the nature of the ‘want it new, want it now” internet culture, the company strives to produce the video responses in real time to the keep the content fresh, relevant to the brand and newsworthy. The content goes successfully beyond pure entertainment value to make “the connection between the content, the product and the experience of the product.”
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Powerade Dives Deep In YouTube Social Campaign Video
Posted: 07/08/2010
In preparation for the FIFA World Cup, Powerade will provide players sports drinks and promote the importance of rehydration through a social media campaign. The campaign is a digital, viewer-interactive video of a never-ending football game on YouTube.com. Using the "Deep Dive" technique, viewers are able to click on a player in the video and "get a glimpse of that player’s psyche, showing them what effect Powerade has on his game", according to executive creative director Juan Morales. Click-through hotspots lead viewers further into players' stories providing a deeper level of meaning to the campaign. Following the digital ad world philosophy to "fish where the fish are", Morales says it makes sense to feature the video on YouTube where the viewers already are.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Encouraging Online Consumers To Trade Caution For Confidence (Practical eCommerce)
Posted: 06/17/2010
Cautious “digital window shopping” may be a thing of the past thanks to a revelation by McAfee Secure. According to McAfee, the lapse between online consumers placing items in virtual shopping carts and completing purchases is nearly two days. Implementing a few cost, service, and security tips such as retailers’ use of coupons, size-based shipping discounts on orders, and price guarantees can help retail websites attract more confident consumers. Accepting multiple forms of payment, including product data links on website checkout pages, encrypting transactions, displaying “trust marks” showing website safety and reliability, and maintaining an organized, well-designed site will all help ensure both loyal consumers and timely transactions.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer
Mastercard Campaign Praises Hockey’s “Unsung Heroes” (Strategy Magazine)
Posted: 06/09/2010
“Unsung heroes” are typically the faces behind the scenes, eschewing the limelight to help launch others to the top spot. In an unexpected turn, Mastercard’s new campaign casts new light on the "unsung heroes" of the hockey world. In support of its title sponsorship of the 2010 MasterCard Memorial World Cup, MasterCard’s saucy, mockumentary-style campaign features live-action vignettes that pit inanimate objects against each other to battle it out alongside real athletes. The digital campaign celebrates mundane objects like alarm clocks, cups of coffee, garage doors, dumbbells, slush and shock absorbers, whose efforts are often overlooked in the hockey player’s quest to meet challenges. Designed to be dynamic, memorable and cost-effective, the campaign extends the creative theme with trading cards featuring each item and rich media ads on TSN.ca, Sportsnet.ca, CHL.ca and NHL.com, as well as the major Canadian portals that drive visitors to the Mastercard.ca site to vote on their favorite videos. Mastercard will run the "Unsung Heroes" campaign until the end of the Memorial Cup on May 23.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
Video Voyeurs: Nordstrom Rack Previews New Store At Construction Site (Marketing Vox)
Posted: 06/09/2010
The Nordstrom Rack at Union Square in New York City generated buzz for the launch of its new store by integrating video screens into the facade of the construction. Peephole boxes offered the chance to preview the store’s up-to-the-minute fashion in 30–90 second looped video displays of models browsing racks of clothes and trying outfits on in a virtual dressing room. Touted as 'fun, provocative and playful,' digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaigns like this extend the reach of marketers looking to connect with consumers in places beyond their living rooms. Other successful DOOH campaigns include interactive exhibits and place-based video networks, reaching an estimated audience of 237.4 million in 2009. One Los Angeles shopping mall provides visitors the experience to transform themselves into Avatar’s blue-skinned Na’vi while video screens in Lego stores prompt reality checks when visitors hold a Lego product box in front of the screen.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
BlackBerry Users Get “LinkedIn” On-The-Go (EnterpriseMobileToday)
Posted: 05/27/2010
Now BlackBerry users can get “LinkedIn” on-the-go. The new application from the professional career networking site is designed to connect users no matter where they are. Chad Whitney, LinkedIn’s product manager for mobile posted a blog announcing the launch, stating, "Now you can walk into any interview, any customer engagement or client meeting with the ability to look up the details on over 60 million professionals worldwide, in real-time.” Designing new relevant products for the Blackberry platform is a high priority; therefore, application users can expect consistent feature enhancements and additions throughout the year. The application features six tabbed modules customized for Research In Motion's BlackBerry, maximizing the small screen. The social networking site offers a Blackberry group so users can be alerted to new feature launches or learn how to better utilize the application.
Industry: Telecommunications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Stay Out Front With Smart Mobile Marketing Tactics (Marketing Vox)
Posted: 05/13/2010
You know the mobile marketing drill: Offer local coupons. Allow customers to pay for purchases directly from their phones. Inject with a little vavavavoom and you’ve got a competitive mobile marketing package. In light of the ever-changing mobile technology landscape –which means competitors are always on the hunt for bigger, better, more creative tactics – it makes good sense to consider adding these four tips to your mobile marketing toolbox: 1. Matt Silk, SVP of Waterfall Mobile recommends including a store locator in your mobile plan; 2. When used like direct mail or email, mobile subscriptions lists can help you to target your subscribers on-the-go; 3. Build applications and then market them strategically. Paul Reddick, CEO of Handmark at MoCoNews, recommends brands to "distribute them from their own Web sites or other traditional media outlets;” and 4. Forget about the apps altogether and concentrate your efforts on building a mobile Web site, which may be the smartest tactic of all, according to Practical E-Commerce.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Telecommunications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business
Nokia’s “Design By Community”: Hope For Next-Gen Smartphone? (Mobile Magazine)
Posted: 05/13/2010
Former king of the mobile technology hill, Nokia, recently unveiled “Design by Community”, a project intended to tap into the psyche of the techie community and recapture the keys to the kingdom. Nokia’s plan of attack is to use its new website to solicit consumer feedback regarding characteristics smartphone users would most like to see in the next generation of smartphones. Nokia amassed thousands of votes about design parameters in the first round of voting. Future reconnaissance rounds will seek information about characteristics, including: shape, materials, connectivity, video and features like camera. The voting system will reject configuration ideas that are too out-of-the-box or not creative enough. Nokia does not have plans to bring the winning creation to market. They will, however, incorporate them into a design concept.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Telecommunications
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Developers Build Native Mobile Web Applications With Titanium 1.0 (Info World)
Posted: 04/29/2010
Appcelerator recently released Titanium 1.0, a cross-platform development system for mobile and desktop applications. The open source system is compatible with JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby, which eliminates the need for mobile application builders to learn the Objective-C language for iPhone or Google's Java language for Android systems. A translator enables building mobile and desktop applications that will run natively on different systems. The system supports development for PCs, Macintosh, and Linux while mobile platforms include Apple iPhone and Google Android. Plans include Research In Motion Blackberry support within the year. Scott Schwarzhoff, vice president of marketing for Appcelerator attributes Titanium’s competitive advantage over other cross-platform development frameworks to its ability to “offer native performance as well as native UI (user interface) and access to device capabilities.” Eliminating the barrier of learning Objective-C makes Titanium highly attractive to developers. Appcelerator will also develop a version of Titanium for Apple's new iPad.
Industry: Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,  Telecommunications
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
Discover Technology’s Next Big Star At South By Southwest Interactive Festival (CNET News)
Posted: 04/29/2010
The competition is on to see who emerges as SXSWi's (South by Southwest Interactive Festival) biggest technology star. This year’s hottest ticket? The rivalry brewing between Gowalla and Foursquare, competing “geolocation” mobile applications which let users "check in" from their smartphones, share locations, and compete to earn Gowalla virtual goods and Foursquare "badges". With round-the-clock parties, panels, meet-and-greets and apps like Foodspotting, which uses GPS to help users locate specific menu items at local restaurants, the festival is poised to take over the entire city. Other geolocation start-ups want in on the action: Sunday night’s "Geobash" is co-hosted by SimpleGeo, HotPotato and Yowza, Loopt is launching a revamped, events-based iPhone app and Powered’s iPhone app "Snark It" earns users “liquidity” points to use toward free drinks.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global,  North America
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Zappos Implements “Video Experience” (CIO Magazine)
Posted: 04/15/2010
Zappos recently launched interactive videos detailing Nike products, one of the shoe and clothing company’s largest brands. Initiated from customer queries that were best addressed visually, Zappos used software from Overlay.tv to link videos about various Nike items to its supply-chain system. Among the perks: shoppers can click on featured items to view any current promotions and find out if the product is available in stock. Customers can post video links on Facebook, upload their own videos to Zappos.com and post comments. Zappos objective is not necessarily the bottom line, but it will track stats on customer click-thrus and purchases. "The goal is to create a more pleasurable experience on our site," Kalma says. "The general philosophy is that will lead to purchases."
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Mastering The Whole Customer Experience (.net)
Posted: 04/15/2010
In a recent interview, Oliver Lindberg caught up with Paul Dawson, EMC Conchango’s experience director, to discuss the company’s methodology. EMC Conchango concentrates on what it calls “total experience design,” taking a comprehensive look at the customer journey from beginning to end, and all the points in between. EMC Conchango operates as the European arm of EMC Consulting, allowing it to leverage its global reach and cast a wider net to capture more global business. Based on fact, the experience planning process incorporates Agile methodology, regularly released software and eye tracking to analyze how people interact with the content of a page. The agency is also experimenting with electroencephalograms that are literally wired to reveal what consumer’s brains are thinking and feeling. The agency also partners with Microsoft to adopt new user-facing technology to better understand customer behavior and devise ways to prolong consumer interactions with brands and products.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global,  Europe
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
Turning a New Page: Penguin Demos Interactive Books For The iPad (Digital Arts)
Posted: 04/01/2010
Imagine pointing on an interactive screen to accurately reveal constellations lighting up the night sky. Penguin Books recently unveiled fantastically interactive books like this one, which uses iPad’s compass app, at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference in London. Taking Apple’s ePub application beyond the traditional narrative text it is designed to support, CEO John Makinson demoed how a number of titles ranging from popular children's literature to medical textbooks could be ported for the iPad. Makinson views the iPad as an out-of-the-box approach for e-book publishers, saying that "the definition of a book itself, as we can see, is up for grabs." Extended capabilities include embedded audio, video and streaming for both “learning and leisure apps” to further strengthen “Pearson’s, the publishing powerhouse that owns both Penguin Books and The Financial Times, push into digital and online education.”
Industry: Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer
It’s Super Bowl Sunday: “Time to Wear the Pants” (BrandWeek)
Posted: 02/18/2010
Watching the Super Bowl and wearing pants went hand in hand on February 7th. During the big game, Dockers presented a 30-second ad to promote its ongoing “Wear the Pants” campaign. The ad portrays childish men, marching and chanting “I Wear No Pants”, who are interrupted with the message “Calling all men, it’s time to wear the pants.” "We’re sending out a humorous call to manhood . . . The campaign celebrates the reemergence of the khaki... as an everyday way for men to convey masculine pride," said Jen Sey,VP of Dockers global marketing. The ad’s incorporation of Shazam mobile technology will allow consumers to use their smartphones for direct interaction with the ad’s content. Downloading the Shazam application and “tagging” the spot will direct consumers to the content page and its various offerings. "We’re on a mission to reinvent khakis and consumers’ relationship to the category, which has been passive in recent years," said Sey.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Telecommunications
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Consumer
Opening the Line of Communication with Feedback-Form Analytics (Electronic Commerce Guide)
Posted: 02/04/2010
We’ve all heard of shopping cart abandonment. Until now, companies have had no way of knowing if this so-called digital window shopper’s syndrome was due to Web glitches or other, more personal, reasons. Kampyle is changing that by offering on-demand feedback-form analytics so companies can improve their turnover rates by learning more about their customers. The customizable forms promote open communication between customer and company by directly asking customers relevant questions to reveal why they chose not follow through with their purchases. The software also features “smart pop-ups” that can be personalized to appear when the visitor clicks off the site. Easy to implement, companies can have the service converting clicks into sales in as little as five minutes.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business
Google’s Real-Time, User-Driven Display Ads (Ecommerce Times)
Posted: 01/21/2010
Google is paving the way toward revolutionizing online display advertising. The search engine leader’s acquisition of startup Teracent promises to significantly boost Google’s display ad prowess by tapping into machine-learning algorithms able to produce and personalize the ads in real-time. The user-driven ads can be optimized based on influencers like location, time, language, Web-specific content and past performance of similar ads. Proving that what’s good for Google is good for online display advertising in general, the new technology combats the somewhat antiquated, inflexible packaging of display ads and makes them more dynamic and customizable. Giovanni Calabro, vice president of user experience at Siteworx, told the E-Commerce Times, "Instead of merely selling a package, Google can offer a product based on an understanding of who is coming onto a site.”
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
Silk Drinks Up New Media for YouTube Campaign (Strategy Magazine)
Posted: 01/06/2010
Silk Soy Milk is milking a new interactive-rich media campaign to boost public perception about its products. The natural strength of the campaign centers around a newly branded YouTube channel which houses “deep link annotation,” a first for YouTube worldwide. Users stay tuned to the Silk-branded and skinned channel while they play the game, “Bust it or Believe it”. The campaign also takes advantage of a QR code-enabled print buy with Metro commuter newspaper, which gives users the opportunity to believe or bust the facts presented when they activate the embedded codes on their phones. "The whole goal here was to use new and innovative technology to engage the consumer," Robin Hassan, digital director, Starcom Mediavest Group, told MiC.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Consumer
U.S. Hispanics Prime Target for Internet and Mobile Advertisers (Marketing Vox)
Posted: 01/06/2010
The Hispanic online demographic is growing more than twice as fast as the overall national online population. Add to the equation that 88% of Hispanics consume content from their mobile phones, and the environment grows even riper for advertisers to target a population just shy of 50 million. Mobile initiatives from Yahoo include mobile search, US and global news in Spanish, and email and social networking connections, among others while those via internet from Orange Advertising Network include site-specific placements, customized branded entertainment, and direct-response campaigns. Mobile advertisers including HBO, Harley-Davidson, Rite Aid, Arby's and Cheetos have sent opt-in offers and ads to Hispanic users through HipCricket's Hispanic Mobile Marketing Network, which projects that Hispanic buying power will exceed $1 trillion in the next year.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Telecommunications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: North America,  South-Central America
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
The New SimplicITy – Technology for the Ages (BBC Business News)
Posted: 12/17/2009
The Office for National Statistics recently reported that “6.4 million people over 65 have never used the internet.” Responding to this age-old need, a new PC was developed to make computer technology more user-friendly for the 60+ age demographic. The SimplicITy–taking its name to heart–features a mere six buttons that allow users to perform a variety of practical applications like web browsing, file creation and documenting photos. Andrew Harrop, head of public policy for charity Age Concern and Help the Aged said, "Pensioners who aren't online are missing out on... potential savings... [and] also often miss out on the best interest rates for savings accounts, not to mention the social benefits of being online.” The SimplicITy is a smart investment for seniors seeking to further open themselves to a tech-savvy world.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Europe
Audience: Business to Consumer
Motorola SmartPhone Targets Social Network Crowd (Internet Evolution)
Posted: 10/22/2009
Motorola’s new smartphone, the Cliq, targets a young crowd addicted to social networking. The Cliq features a dynamic home screen with a collage of emails, tweets and status updates flashing over the sender’s profile pictures. The moderately priced Cliq, estimated to cost around $100, will be available this fall from T-Mobile. Another more expensive version will be available from Verizon. Both phones use Google’s Android operating system, but Motorola transformed the Cliq’s software to include Motoblur–the wow factor that makes the phone stand out from the crowd of Android phones expected to launch in the 2009 holiday season. Users simply supply their account information and the Internet-based service will combine all the information from a user’s e-mail and social networking accounts into one handy address book.
Industry: Telecommunications
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Doritos iD3: Unveils the Mysterious Flavor of London’s Underworld (Digital Arts)
Posted: 10/08/2009
Dubbed iD3, Doritos’ newest flavor plays on the mysteriously hard-to-identify flavors often found in packaged foods. To launch the savory snack, Doritos tapped rehabstudio to build an interactive advergame set among the grit and grime of London’s seedy crime world. The hook? Identify the exact flavor for the chance to win £20,000. Rather than going straight to the masses, Doritos engaged rehabstudio to design an interactive experience using elements of film and narrative to lead gamers through a suite of ‘choose your own adventure’ options. Utilizing a sophisticated back end system, the game pushes its cutting-edge technology to the max and extends beyond Doritos’ website. The 3D game uses the Facebook Connect app, allowing developers to create a personalized advergame that draws content from and links back to a user’s Facebook profile.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Europe
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Transforming Innovation: New Technology. New Speed. New Price. New Customers. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Posted: 10/08/2009
Technology continues to transform the face of innovation at breakneck speed. Where it used to take major moxie, manpower and minutes to launch comprehensive testing campaigns, the newfound ability to incorporate new Web features faster and immediately measure consumer response means companies can now achieve rapid fire results for next to nothing cost. The result? Innovation–the lifeblood of growth–is not only more efficient and cheaper, it also more accurately pinpoints behavior to identify exactly what consumers want. Sophisticated tracking systems enable businesses–from web-based companies to retailers–to exploit new information technology to conduct testing and collect meaningful consumer data to ultimately capture even more consumer spending.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
Playing it Safe: Conservative Web Site Design (Fast Company)
Posted: 10/08/2009
There is one critical factor to Web site design that cannot be ignored: the reader rules. Designing Web sites with a conservative approach first addresses readers’ expectations, with just the perfect dose of panache to make your site sizzle. The conservative rule of thumb? Organize your information in a way that flows effectively. Fast moving elements like flash should take center stage while slower moving elements like columns and news bites should flank the outer rails. Smashing Magazine sampled 50 top Web sites to pinpoint the definition of 'readability' and establish some basic guidelines for effective type layout, including font type, font size and link styling. So the next time you try to equate "conservative" with "boring" consider this: sometimes slow and steady really does win the race.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business
Where Only the Strong Survive: Market Testing on the Social Scene (Chief Marketer)
Posted: 09/25/2009
Given the ongoing technology explosion, it’s no surprise that consumers’ collective (and opinionated) voice is growing louder and marketers’ ears bigger, or at least more attune to what they’re hearing via the social web. Tapping in to social networks allows marketers to listen to what consumers are saying to not only drive, but refine market testing and distill the ideas that most deeply resonate with their audiences. Marketers must harness the power of social media by immediately engaging as many consumers as they can from the start. By the time ideas and messaging run through various tiers of sub-panels, what’s left is a virtual survival-of-the-fittest where only the strongest ideas survive and “smartness” is ruled only by the human imagination.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Peer Groups & Communities
Breaking Through the Barriers to Adopting Social Media in Email Marketing (New Media Knowledge)
Posted: 09/11/2009
A recent survey by email experts StrongMail cited that 62 percent of firms plan to increase social media spending while 66 percent plan to integrate social media into their email marketing campaigns. NMK sat down with Paul Bates, managing director of StrongMail, to get an insider’s perspective for breaking through the barriers to effectively engage social media. Find out where your customers are hanging out online and observe their behavior there; engage competitive analysis across the social spectrum to find out where your competitors are lurking and determine whether they are or are not enjoying success. The conversation with Bates is packed with stats, insights and tips for marketers to engage customers in meaningful conversation and begin to integrate social media into an email marketing strategy with enormous ROI on their marketing dollars.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Peer Groups & Communities
Maximize your Web Site’s Mobilization with CSS (Practical eCommerce)
Posted: 09/11/2009
With mobile internet use and mobile-friendly browsing on the rise, expert Armando Roggio is encouraging businesses to consider his “Web Design Tips” before redesigning their e-commerce sites to address their mobilization. Simple techniques such as adding a second style sheet or slightly revising a page’s HTML can enhance mobile shopping experiences without wasting time to register new mobile domains or create mobile-specific styles. The best solution? According to Roggio, it’s more efficient to redesign your current site to render well across multiple platforms including mobile, desktop, RSS, and more, using CSS. To illustrate his advice, Roggio creates a home page for an e-commerce comic book store with an instructional video demonstrating how to create mobile-friendly background images.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,  Telecommunications
Topic: Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
Shopping-enabled Display Ads are Blooming Success for 1-800-Flowers.com (Internet Retailer)
Posted: 08/27/2009
Success bloomed for 1-800-Flowers.com during its 2009 Mother’s Day e-commerce campaign, resulting in a 41% spike in sales per impression compared to traditional display ads. The campaign enabled consumers to purchase directly from “buy” buttons planted into display ads powered by Alvenda. According to Alvenda, consumer interaction among the ads, called Shoplets, flourished at more than 10.5 times greater than traditional banner ads. To accommodate the traffic spike and speed up response times, Alvenda shifted the bulk of the floral Shoplet campaign content over to Akamai Technologies Inc’s content management server. “We believe the majority of future online sales will happen offsite. Customers will be able to shop with brands wherever they happen to be, whether they’re on YouTube, a favorite blogger web site, or on Facebook,” says Wade Gerten, CEO of Alvenda.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Blazing the Broadband Trail Along the East Coast (Internet Retailer)
Posted: 08/27/2009
Akamai Technologies Inc.’s “State of the Internet Report” revealed that U.S. broadband adoption is on the rise, with East coast states tallying the most broadband Internet connections for the first quarter of 2009. Eastern states garnered eight of the top ten slots, topped by Delaware, where 62% of households have high-speed broadband web access, a 6.7% year over-year increase. Based on results from data collected from Akamai’s global server network, the study examined countries and U.S. states that averaged over 1,000 unique monthly IP addresses. The report also states that one-fifth of global internet connections operate at speeds greater than 5 Mbps, up significantly from the previous year. “The implication… is that Internet retailers can continue to add more rich media content to their site... to bring buyers and keep them on the site longer,” says David Belson, editor of the report.
Industry: Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Technology Implementation
Region: North America
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
New Online Business Show Opens Up the Boardroom to “Everybody’s Business” (CRM Daily)
Posted: 07/31/2009
Microsoft is opening up the boardroom with an innovative new online show featuring Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, and his wife, Suzy to promote emerging new products and services. An extension of Microsoft’s business-to-business marketing platform and mission, the duo, who also write a weekly BusinessWeek column, will help companies like Hertz car rental company take on crucial business decisions and discover “people-ready solutions” to meet whatever business challenges are on the horizon. Co-created by reality show producer Reveille Productions (credits include the Biggest Loser) and ad agency JWT, “It's Everybody's Business” is available at http://EverybodysBusiness.msn.com. The Web site also featuring out-takes, behind-the-scenes footage and in-depth information about the issues and products discussed.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business
Bridging the Gap: JavaFX for Mobile Devices (Info World)
Posted: 07/18/2009
With more than 2.6 billion mobile phones deployed with Java worldwide, Sun Microsystems is heralding the JavaFX extension as a bridge from desktop to mobile device to television. "JavaFX Mobile delivers rich, expressive user experiences and we know that this is what our customers require these days," Sun’s vice president of marketing Eric Klein said recently at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Improvements to the new 1.2 release of JavaFX Mobile include optimized performance, a user interface library, and localization. Future plans include building the JavaFX technology into “smartbook” devices that boast Internet access and GPS capabilities on small, hand-held devices.
Industry: Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,  Telecommunications
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
China: Redefining the Innovation Landscape (Knowledge@Wharton)
Posted: 07/18/2009
Innovation is the golden key to gaining competitive advantage. China is redefining the innovation landscape with its large, adaptable population; affinity for improvisation and reverse engineering; and mature industrial clusters poised to lead the supply chain. The country goes beyond low-cost labor to provide colossal development opportunities for large multinational corporations (MNCs) looking to maximize dollars spent in developing markets. "The culture is very, very good at devising quick and often effective solutions to problems," Marshall Meyer, a Wharton management professor said. The country’s ability to improvise effectively will undoubtedly seal a golden fate in the global economy.
Industry: Retail & Products,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic: Creative & Design,  Technology Implementation
Region: Asia Pacific
Audience: Business to Business
Club Med Latest Hotel to “Check In” with its Own Social Network (ClickZ)
Posted: 06/19/2009
Travelers now have the chance to ‘check in’ to Club Med’s new social network long after checking out from an exotic Club Med vacation. After testing its viability on Facebook, the luxury brand recently launched its own social network, Club Med Insiders, offering guests the opportunity to share experiences long past the last Mai Tai. Since its April launch, the site is exceeding its platform goals to encourage bookings, pass along expert travel advice, and create a loyal community of Club Med vacationers. In a down economy, the French-based company has already seen a nearly 2 percent jump between first quarter revenues in 2009 and the first quarter of 2008.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global,  Europe
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Giant Hydrophobic Duck Peddles Oasis Brand in Japan (New Media Age)
Posted: 06/19/2009
Seeking to captivate a young, hip audience, the Coca-Cola-owned Oasis brand is flooding the Japanese market with a giant rubber duck harboring a distinct aversion to water. The multi-channel marketing strategy has plans to deluge the market with internet, television, strategic media relationships and billboard advertising in its continuation of the brand’s “For people who don’t like water” campaign. Literally upstream without a paddle... or water, for that matter, this is one duck that is sure to generate a marketing splash in the wave of competition for alternatives to water.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Asia Pacific
Audience: Business to Consumer
Study Finds That Mobile Ads Deliver the Goods to One in Three Smartphone Owners (Promo Magazine)
Posted: 06/19/2009
Now that nearly one of every seven minutes of digital media consumption takes place over a mobile device, it’s no small wonder that more smartphone users are actively embracing the ‘smart’ technology to enhance their lives. A recent study by Interpublic Group division Universal McCann and sponsored by Platform-A, AOL’s digital ad service, discovered that more than half of all smartphone users have responded to ads, requesting more information from their Web-enabled devices. The study also found that thirty-five percent actively requested to receive a mobile coupon, while 245 made purchases from their high-end handsets. UM director of consumer insights Graeme Hutton said in a statement. “Now mobile is less about ‘wireless online’ and more about being a highly personal, customized medium. Smartphone users are reaching for their devices to help answer unmet needs. Services that don’t have dedicated mobile formats are going to miss out on this huge and continual media consumption shift.”
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Telecommunications
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Creative & Design,  E-Commerce,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer
Driving the Competition (BrandWeek)
Posted: 06/19/2009
With 1.2 million members worldwide and more than 145,904 fans on Facebook, brand behemoth Harley-Davidson is now driving their brand power home online with social media and mobile marketing. Proud of its powerful offline impact, according to Randy Sprenger manager of electronic advertising and direct promotions, online campaigns and mobile marketing are helping the company get in touch with what people are saying outside the walls of Harley. Sprenger claims the brand’s strength can be attributed to the personal connection established between company and rider. “We are actually riders. We participate in events as riders. I think one of the greatest strengths is the passion and enthusiasm here at the motor company for our riders. We always want to be out, talking to them.”
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications
Topic: Business Intelligence,  Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Art Meets Internet Commerce, Reality TV, Social Media (Promo Magazine)
Posted: 06/05/2009
Continuing the surge of story-based marketing, Coca-Cola brand Sprite is launching a new European campaign that boldly unites art with multi-channeled commerce. A young, unknown British singer headlines the ongoing YouTube series that follows as she hits the New York music scene. With the prequel getting upwards of 60,000 views on YouTube, the show is also linked to Facebook Connect, creating the first interaction of its kind between YouTube and Facebook. “With this show, Sprite shifts from creating the perfect branded content to content that perfects the brand,” Coca-Cola head of European digital marketing Stafford Green said in a release. “Instead of repeating single messages in traditional media, Sprite supports these new experiences and deep storytelling to communicate our core brand values over time. It’s a fresh advertising model, and everyone wins: the artist, the brands and especially the audience—getting free on-demand, truly interactive content without commercial interruption.”
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products,  Telecommunications
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global,  Europe
Audience: Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
Connecting with a Hispanic Market (BusinessWeek)
Posted: 06/05/2009
The Hispanic population is the fastest growing segment in the United States, meaning some marketers are missing more than 40 million new customers. Savvy companies like Procter and Gamble, Verizon and General Mills are funneling more marketing dollars into the Hispanic market, a segment proven to purchase products and services from brands advertised on TV. "Hispanic consumers appreciate when you speak to them in their own language," says Edward Gold, advertising director at State Farm Insurance. The approach is paying huge dividends for companies like General Mills, which has seen double-digit sales gains. Taking product integration to the next level, Telemundo and Vidal Partnerships (Client include Home Depot, Kraft Foods and Wendy’s) have formed a strategic alliance to promote an online contest in which viewers will choose the ending for one of the networks telenovelas.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Retail & Products
Topic: Content Strategy,  Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Marketing Communications
Region: North America,  South-Central America
Audience: Business to Consumer
Finding Common Ground: Insights on Engineering and Design (BusinessWeek)
Posted: 06/05/2009
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton is calling for engineers and user-experience designers to find some common ground. Faced with ongoing questions from well-intentioned engineers regarding design, Buxton acknowledges the answers are more complicated than becoming a designer themselves or simply learning to “do” design as many engineers suggest. First, Buxton counsels that professional competence equal to the task must be added to your team. While the UX and engineering tasks certainly go hand-in-hand, expert proficiency is difficult to come by for each discipline, making it often impossible to jump seamlessly between the two. Buxton advises a four-layered approach: Design awareness, Design literacy, Design thinking, and Design practice to achieve results and solutions worthy of your customers.
Industry: Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,  Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,  Telecommunications
Topic: Creative & Design,  Experience & Interaction,  Technology Implementation
Region: Global
Audience: Business to Business,  Business to Consumer,  Peer Groups & Communities
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