Marketing communications, digital content & results driven creative leader with an eye for innovation.
You heard that right…virtual influencers are now not only being embraced, but significant investment is being poured into the category not only from the creator IP side, but brands are jumping on-board too…and it is paying off…
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There has been so much discussion around the restructuring of Google I thought it would be helpful to post a complete list of all of the Google companies along with some key articles to better understand the restructure. The depth and breadth of their holdings are massive. The ratio of innovation and disruption across the […]
Read more "Google Alphabet Soup. Guide to all companies Google."I just wrote about how Apple may be blocking Spotify from working seamlessly with their hardware. I was worried that these type of tactics from Apple may give AppleMusic the upper hand. In some ways I wanted Apple’s new service to give me a great reason to switch as all of my owned tracks still […]
Read more "Apple Music is a complete disaster."Far too many of us start our day, while still in bed, by reaching for our phones. What might start out as a lazy, luxurious excercise of checking the weather, news or our social feeds, soon turns into text and email…and just like that we project ourselves into the middle of our fast-paced, never-ending to-do-list of a day…body tense and heart pounding […]
Read more "Waking up to meditation instead of technology."
A new crop of celebrity, born out of digital – not so long ago laughed at – but now revered, is crossing over into the inner sanctum as they surpass their traditional peers.
Read more "Rising Stars! Digital Celebrities Rewrite the Rules of Fame."Is Social Media as a marketing tool simply the next stage of our marketing evolution and the ‘highest’ medium in which we now get to connect with the consumer? Advertising began as a form of marketing communication used to encourage, persuade, or manipulate an audience to take some action towards the advertiser…hopefully leading to purchase. […]
Read more "‘We’ are the network now…"What is up with all of the poorly targeted advertising on my social newsfeeds? Some days it feels like I am seeing more ads than posts from my friends and colleagues! I had such high hopes for digital advertising. You would think that the digital environment with participatory engagement, democratization of video content and non-linear […]
Read more "The limits of social advertising."As I head out for vacation I think about the priority of living in the moment. Marketers are learning to do more of this too. For a discipline historically built on planning, this is still something they are learning to do. The democratization of media along with the ability to publish directly to the consumer […]
Read more "Marketing in the moment."Back a week, I’ve have had a bit of time to reflect on SXSW, here are the things that stood out for me from this years interactive festival. Creative Entrepreneurship vs. Marketing While it is hard to sum up a festival as rich and intricately complex as SXSWi, one thing stood out for me more […]
Read more "Musings from SXSWi 2013"Even as digital advertising is up (it’s no secret of the declining engagement within traditional), it is clear that consumers are not interested in repeating the same invasive advertising experience at a time when recommendations from family, frie…
Read more "Is Social Advertising The Future of Madison Avenue?"
Jared Hendler 