A few days ago, I saw an interesting infographic comparing consumer and retailer expectations, entitled “What Consumers Want from Product Video” by Invodo, of all things (surprise, surprise), a company that makes videos for product advertising. It seemed to me a bit of the cart before the horse, but I understand their perspective. I think a…
Category: advertising
Blip on the Radar for “Selling the Experience” against Amazon
I ran an interesting post and white paper from Joe Davis entitled “Beating Amazon by Creating Shopping Experiences,” which presents an idea similar to what I advanced a few years ago in “Selling the Experience“, namely that anyone trying to compete with Amazon for selling products successfully really has to focus on the product experience….
The Future of Advertising will be ‘Authentic’
In Mark Suster’s recent post entitled “The Future of Advertising will be Integrated” (which appeared on TechCrunch a few days earlier) he discusses how the traditional interruption marketing (my term, not his) — for example, banner ads, things that take our attention away from why we are viewing the material — are not as successful as “integrated”…
“Show Don’t Tell” – but Show What?
David Scott Meerman posted today a short blog entry entitled “Show Don’t Tell“, in which exhorts marketers, by way of example, to show what the product can do for the prospect, rather than merely telling the audience what the product does. This begs the question ‘what should I show the product doing for the prospect’? I…
A B2B Marketing take on ‘People who bought this also bought…’
I’ve been somewhat quiet on the product sim marketing front the past few weeks, but have been developing an exciting, top-secret concept/opportunity which I hope to seize in early 2011. My interests have been in using simulation and interactivity in B2B Marketing, but even in the business world, buying decisions are (a) based on emotion;…
Virtual ‘Tryvertising’ (aka Product Simulation Adv/Mkt)
I was reading an interesting post entitled “The Rise of Engagement Marketing” by “Faraz” at BrandActivationIdeas.blogspot.com, and he mentioned a word I had not seen before, “tryvertising”. He attributed a definition to TrendWatching, and here’s what I pulled from their site: TRYVERTISING, which is all about consumers becoming familiar with new products by actually trying them out. You can…
Current digital advertising lacks innovation
I came across this interesting blog post on Monday Note entitled “The lethal self-complacency of advertising“, later posted on the Washington Post as “Why is digital advertising so lousy? Industry is too smug to innovate“, but Frédéric Filloux. I agree with his conclusion that online ads are not innovative in the capacity that they could…