Archive for the ‘Generation C’ Category

An open conversation with General Motors

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005 Neville Hobson has a relevant and timely post on his blog. A conversation with Michael Wiley, Director New Media at GM. This caught our eye at SMLXL since we mention Bob Lutz Vice Chairman at General Motors - ...

Communities Dominate Brands

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 Communities Dominate Brands Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century Tomi T Ahonen and Alan Moore (about 250 pages, hardcover, Futuretext Ltd, March 2005) Communities Dominate Brands: Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century is a book about ...

Corporate America on the rack

Monday, February 7th, 2005 Reported in the Financial Times February 7 2005 Verizon is taken to court in a civil class action - which signals to large corporations - that the customer is clearly in the driving seat. The FT reports the lawsuit against Verizon ...

Web browser Firefox grows via socially networked media

Thursday, January 20th, 2005 Mediapost talks about the increasing use and spread of the web browser Firefox. Developed by a non-for-profit organisation Mozilla. The browser has been downloaded for use 19 million times so far. And according to the Firefox website has happened in ...

No more interruptions, please

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 Whether it be making TV programmes, holding arts festivals or even launching a radio station, advertisers are funding new vehicles to promote their brands. The Guardian writes. Forays into this area have mostly been limited to branded vignettes on ...

Apple evangelism? Viral marketing?

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004 An interesting story in wired Not only are Apple evangelists making their own ads and putting them out on the net. You can now iPodize your own images, says the article: Customers upload a digital snap, choose ...

Fire your ad agency and get your neighbour to create your ads

Monday, December 13th, 2004 From Wired Magazine School teacher George Masters has the marketing world abuzz with a homemade ad for Apple Computer's iPod that is rapidly 'going viral.' To some experts, Masters' ad heralds the future of advertising. Homemade ads will play a ...

Things are not OK for many of today’s UK teenagers

Monday, December 6th, 2004 They are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives, yet British teenagers have among them the highest rates of obesity, binge drinking, cannabis consumption, sexually transmitted diseases and early pregnancy in the world claims The Observer ...

Co-creating experiences, co-creating value

Sunday, November 28th, 2004 My dear friend Adriana Cronin-lucas at the Big Blog Company drew my attention to a recent e-newsletter by trendwatching entitled customer made Tendwatching observes the debate that people are having about brands, products services, companies. And, making ...

Advertising & video on demand

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004 Video on demand has reached critical mass, and advertisers have taken notice, reports the New York Times. Michael J. Wolf, global head of the media and entertainment practice at McKinsey believes that video-on-demand will become a significant way for ...