Branding
31 December 2009
- Social games overflow out of Facebook.
- Brand advertising starts to move online, boosting premium display, video and social media
- Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient
- Finding Money and Saving Money online
- Real time web usage outpaces business models
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29 December 2009
- Value is the new black
- Brands increasingly a surrogate for "value"
- Brand differentiation is Brand Value
- "Because I Said So" is so over
- Consumer expectations are growing
- Old tricks don't work/won't work anymore
- They won't need to know you to love you
- It's not just buzz
- They're talking to each other before talking to the brand
- Engagement is not a fad; It's the way today's consumers do business
29 December 2009
- Symbol overload: consumers are hungry for nutrition facts
- Sodium reduction
- Local gets stretched: definition of "local" will expand, becoming more practical
- Simple made special: chic packaging and premium positioning
- Color coding for convenience
- Iconic budget brands: private labels will thrive
- Gen Y cleans up: calling out for grown-up cleaning products of their own
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28 December 2009
- Attention Overload & Filtering
- Brand Community Building
- Local apps, geo tagging, contextual gaming/advertising
- Monetization…someone finally needs to pay us
- Radical Reinvention of Agencies
- Employee Social Media
- Brandividuals
- Content Syndication
- The Rise of Community Evangelists/Managers
- Collaborative Real-Time Communication
- Joint Ventures
- Portability of Web
- Crowdsourcing Sacred Cows
- Word of