Y&R Advertising sent some of its brightest minds to the SXSW Interactive Festival and here’s what they had to say about the trends at the intersection of technology, innovation, and advertising, and what they mean for brands today.
Wrap-up of the presentations at the SXSW Update 2017, 6th Edition. Great line-up with cool speakers, topics and startups. Together with MT MediaGroep, Collider and my new company Join Influencer Marketing we organized this years SXSW Update at The Warehouse in Amsterdam.
Each year, art meets technology at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Celebrating the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries, this year's conference featured panels, seminars, parties and live music. Topics ranged from artificial intelligence and chat bots to female leadership and social purpose, revealing future trends for brands and agencies to keep in mind this upcoming year. Here are Y&R's key takeaways from SXSW 2017.
My deck from Guardian Changing Media Summit - London March 16th 2017Tom Goodwin
The document discusses 10 media trends for 2017 and beyond according to Tom Goodwin. The trends are: 1) Video will continue to grow in importance across social and digital platforms. 2) Lines will blur between what is considered TV, a screen, a context for content consumption, or a delivery mechanism. 3) Screens and data will become more intimate and focused on intent rather than demographics. 4) New technologies like virtual and augmented reality and predictive interfaces will change how people interact with content and ads. 5) Retail will bifurcate between efficient online purchasing and experiential in-store shopping. 6) Vanishing interfaces and new inputs like voice and gestures will change how people engage with brands. 7) Artificial intelligence combined
JWT: The Future 100 - Trends and changesFilipp Paster
The Future 100 takes a snapshot of emerging trends for 2017, spanning culture, tech and innovation, travel and hospitality, brands and marketing, food and drink, beauty, retail, health, lifestyle, and luxury.
As we look ahead to 2017, markets are confident, even though assumptions have been questioned and narratives overturned. Amid the massive shifts that are sure to follow, there’s never been a more important time for brands to keep tabs on forecasts and emerging consumer behaviors.
This document provides an overview of emerging trends to watch in 2016 across various sectors such as culture, technology, food/drink, travel, and brands/marketing. Some key trends highlighted include the growing emphasis on empathy in business, the increasing influence of China on Hollywood entertainment, a movement towards celebrating diversity and taboo-breaking discussions around women's health issues, and generation Z demanding influencers who combine their public profiles with social/political messages. The summary examines emerging themes across consumer behavior, media, and society.
This year's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity touched on a range of buzzworthy topics, from artificial intelligence to new media to gender equality. Here's our roundup of key takeaways and analysis from the event.
Having participated in both SXSW and Cannes Lions Innovation festival this year, we've uncovered lots of insights on the current communications climate and have put together 9 trends which should serve as guidance for the areas to focus on in 2016.
There was a time when SXSW set the agenda, but now it seems to reflect it.
Once a focal point of the digital design industry, the event has grown in size and ambition to become a forum for a wide variety of contemporary issues, seemingly random in nature and curated around no clear principles.
Havas has summarized some of the common key themes on display at SXSW, which were reflected more generally as societal trends.
An exoskeleton suit helps paralyzed people walk again by fitting around the hips and legs to assist movement. New models are light, adjustable, and battery-powered to last up to 8 hours. Researchers are working to develop versions controlled by thought to restore mobility. Artificial intelligence is also improving security systems by detecting abnormal activity and potential threats in video footage. The connected home is a new frontier as smart appliances automate tasks and order goods based on household needs.
Don’t let the breakfast tacos, parties, brand houses, and activations fool you. SXSW is growing up.
The festival has shifted from a place of discovering the next big digital innovation to a place for reflecting on how technology (e.g., AI, AR vs.VR, and Blockchain) can impact society, along with focusing on social responsibility and ethics.
Five days and hundreds of panels later, here’s a look at the trends and emerging tech that’ll be shaping the future.
The document provides a summary of We Are Social's "Curiosity Stop", which highlights various social media innovations and trends. It discusses 8 trends identified in their "Think Forward" report, including the rise of chatbots and instant interactions, technologies that facilitate intimacy, and behavior becoming a new type of currency. For each trend, 3 examples are summarized, such as chatbots from Nordstrom, Forksy, and Swelly that provide customized recommendations, translations breaking down language barriers, and an app that rewards sustainable behaviors. The document concludes by introducing We Are Social as an agency that focuses on social thinking and trendspotting to help brands innovate.
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is one of the largest tech conferences in the world, featuring breakthrough products and innovations from over 150 countries. Attendees were given insights into the latest applications and significant advances in innovative technology. Key highlights from this year's event included rapid improvements in areas like chip technology, screens, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and the growing presence of Chinese technology firms.
17 Cartoons That Will Change Your Business by @BrianSolis @GapingvoidBrian Solis
This special series of cartoons, with short insights from both Hugh MacLeod and Brian Solis adapted from #WTF (www.wtfbusiness.com), will help you see things differently.
N.B. You'll be asked for your email to view this special series of cartoons, with valuable insights from both Hugh MacLeod and Brian Solis.
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Inside the Driving Forces of Disruptive InnovationMSL
In this short publication, we touch upon, among others, some of our clients’ stories and our perspective on how disruption plays out as a force within markets: the creative process, technology and communications. And to the marketing communications industry, we lay down the gauntlet: disruptive innovation offers us all an opening to embrace the polar shift towards a greater integration combining dissimilar currents into explosive ideas, the chance to help create ever-more meaningful partnerships for our clients, and the prospect of delivering insight-fueled foresight to help companies predict what’s over the horizon.
If you would like to talk to MSLGROUP about how we can support you in your business transformation, please contact Trudi Harris, Chief Communications Officer, trudi.harris@mslgroup.com
This document summarizes key trends and issues discussed at SXSW 2017. The top trends included mobile messaging continuing to evolve as a major marketing channel, the ongoing evolution of video consumption and creation, and virtual and augmented reality still being in the early adoption phase and facing challenges around cost and user experience. Other trends focused on connected digital lives, healthcare innovation, ethics around data use, voice interfaces, artificial intelligence, polarization in public discourse, and concerns about short-term thinking. The document encourages identifying major trends and innovating within those areas while also considering issues like data security, accountability, and serving audience needs with useful and exciting solutions.
In January 2016, a team of J. Walter Thompson Company researchers spent 10 days in Cuba interviewing more than 40 Cubans about their lives, the economy, and opportunities as relations with the United States improve. The result is The Promise of Cuba. Here we offer a free excerpt of the full 78-page report.
What makes people LOVE a product or brand?
What sustains that love?
These are the questions Accenture Interactive and Fjord set out to answer when embarking on The Love Index study.
The Love Index 2016 is the first annual report that measures brands – and in particular, the services and experiences they offer – on a 10-point scale across five F.R.E.S.H. dimensions plotted on a pentagon
Best of SXSW 2017 - Speakers, Themes and LinksJung von Matt
SXSW 2017 - our 17 most favourite speakers, their themes and useful links curated by Jung von Matt's Digital Delegates Stefan Mohr, Christoph Korittke, Martin Wenk and Liane Siebenhaar.
Jung von Matt is one of Germany's Top Creative Agencies.
We all know what social media is. The majority of us tweet, post, snap, and check our feeds on a regular basis. In our work lives, we also think about social as a marketing tool. We've all seen great cases (and even built some ourselves) that have driven brand awareness, engaged with consumers on extremely high levels, created brand loyalists, and even closed a sale on the final step in the path to purchase. It is imperative as we strive to achieve the things listed in the prior sentence that we step back and ensure we stick to key principles every digital strategist considers as a first step in any situation when dealing with social media.
To serve as a reminder of “what” those principles are, Y&R Midwest’s Social/Digital Planning Director Greg Getner and Account Executive Zach Kraemer compiled a deck showcasing a top-line view of those key social media principles gleaned from the Social Media Week 2014 in Chicago.
This document discusses brands and their life cycles using Halloween-themed metaphors. It analyzes brand health data from the BrandAsset Valuator tool to identify brands that are immortal, at risk of becoming irrelevant, or already deceased. Immortal brands like Amazon and Coca-Cola continuously rank highly across all brand health pillars. At-risk brands like Blackberry and Kodak are declining in differentiation and esteem. Deceased brands such as Blockbuster and Palm Pilot no longer exist due to losing cultural value over time.
"Yes, and...": What Agencies Can Learn from ImprovYoung & Rubicam
Y&R Canada’s SVP and Strategic Planning Director Kasi Bruno – who recently completed her first improv class, and Sulaiman Beg, Director of Global Digital and Social Communications – who is a performer at the Magnet Theater in New York highlight some of their key improv learnings that will make agencies more innovative and effective as brand champions.
In the two decades that Y&R’s BrandAsset® Valuator (BAV®) - the world’s largest database of brand perceptions - has studied the brandscape, brands have become 200% less distinct from one another. Marketers must work harder than ever in order to make their brands stand out. But how? By studying thousands of brands - from the most iconic to the most commoditized - we found that breakaway brands have an inherent tension that makes them irresistible. We call this BRAND TENSITY®
Raymond Rubicam founded Y&R with a mission: Resist the Usual. It's a mantra that we still live by today. We asked our employees from across our 187 offices to create posters with their own interpretation of what Resist the Usual means to them. The resulting compilation is a series of inspirational art that reminds us to stretch boundaries, imagine the impossible and most importantly – Resist the Usual.
In honor of the NCAA® March Madness Tournament, Y&R created its own tournament using our proprietary BrandAsset® Valuator (BAV®) database.
BAV® is the world’s longest running quantitative study of brand—actively tracking more than 3,500 brands among more than 16,000 adults in the United States every year. The study provides an empirical and historically validated demonstration of how brands grow and decline, and ultimately impact the financial performance of their businesses.
We took 64 iconic American brands, 16 from each region, and had them face-off against one another.
This document provides design brief instructions for a project called "Type Face" where students will create large-scale artwork portraits of other Beaumont School students incorporating text. Students will experiment with different materials and techniques from art history to develop their skills in portraiture and typography. They will complete tasks exploring self-portraits, researching artists who combine text and images, taking portrait photos, and using Photoshop to create portraits with overlaid text and special effects. Their work will be assessed based on developing ideas, experimenting, recording processes, and presenting final pieces.
Cinco de Mayo – or the fifth of May – observes the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. While a relatively minor holiday in Mexico, in the United States Cinco de Mayo has evolved into a celebration of all things Mexico.
Y&R’s BrandAsset Valuator® – our proprietary brand management tool and global database of consumer perception of brands – looked at its latest data figures on brand Mexico to get a glimpse of what the country represents to the consumers who are passionate about it.
This document provides instructions for several graphic design homework tasks focusing on typography and lettering. It includes:
1. Developing work through studying other artists, experimentation, and documentation through sketches, notes, and photos.
2. Completing a spider diagram brainstorming text and image ideas related to illustration, typography, advertising, and packaging.
3. Designing a creative letter inspired by patterns and mark-making using initials with research and sketchbook work.
4. Researching the work of various graphic designers like Sean McCabe and Evelin Kasikov through images, facts, and opinions in a sketchbook page.
Closing the Money Gap: What Marketers Need to KnowYoung & Rubicam
This document discusses changing attitudes towards money and careers among young Asians aged 18-35. It finds that they prioritize happiness and passion over making money. They see money as a means to an end rather than the goal. Careers are chosen based on interest not salary. Experiences through travel are valued more than possessions. They expect to change paths frequently and money is meant to enable exploration not anchor them. Banks are advised to enable passions instead of prudence and support flexible career paths.
Malgré la crise, consommer reste un mode d’expression et de reconnaissance. La société d’aujourd’hui pousse les consommateurs à vouloir satisfaire leurs moindres désirs.
Les valeurs de références ont profondément changées. La reconnaissance sociale passe par les ambitions de carrière et la réussite professionnelle. Nous faisons face à une population qui « travaille plus pour gagner plus ».
Tous ces changements marquent une réelle fracture sociétale qui pousse les populations à se transformer et même voir à se radicaliser.
Face à cette mutation sociale, les populations veulent autre chose, se purifier du monde moderne, une parenthèse dans leurs quotidiens...
Le digital est un nouvel état d'esprit à avoir dans le monde de l'événementiel. Il s'agit d'imaginer de nouvelles façons d'intégrer le digital aux événements, dans le but de créer une expérience inoubliable, incroyable...et utile ! Découvrez le Digital Event by tequialrapido.
A chaque génération ses vérités, et la Génération Z est celle qui fait aujourd’hui le plus parler d’elle. Parfois qualifiée d’insolente, de rebelle mais aussi d’infidèle, qu’en est il vraiment ? Notre mission, l’écouter, la comprendre et retransmettre via un cahier de tendances ce qui caractérise ce nouveau sociostyle. C’est parti !
1. The document discusses how simplicity has become a necessity in modern life due to information overload, too many choices, and not enough time. It provides examples of how brands and services are addressing this need for simplicity.
2. It outlines 9 ways that simplicity is being achieved, such as curation, prioritizing information, streamlining interactions, and doing everything in one location.
3. Finally, it discusses how brands can embrace simplicity by making consumers' lives easier, being accessible always, and guiding them to the essentials. Keeping things simple benefits both consumers and brands.
Quand Les Marques Se Mettent Au Service De Notre Quotidientequilarapido
Et si les marques devenaient des facilitateurs de vie ? Et si la création d’outils utiles devenait un pilier de la stratégie de marque ?
A l’heure du digital, l’utilité au quotidien prend également tout son sens et les marques essayent toutes de devenir fondamentalement utiles dans notre quotidien. Découvrez à travers cette présentation comment les marques se mettent au service de notre quotidien.
As our lives are more and more digital, more and more personal data travels. Consumers are becoming aware & worry, especially in a context of scandals around privacy on internet. Brands have to change their approach to big data to establish a real trusting relationship with their consumers.
The importance of physical realm in a digital worldCHEMISTRY AGENCY
This document discusses the importance of physical experiences and objects in a increasingly digital world. It provides examples of how consumers still value tangible, real-world interactions and possessions. Some key reasons cited include the need for reassurance, the perception that physical things have more value and authenticity, and that the digital world lacks human warmth and connection. The document also explores examples of trends bringing the physical and digital together, such as connected toys, printing digital photos, and tech companies opening physical stores.
Top Trends from SXSW Interactive 2014. The Big Roundup.Ashika Chauhan
SXSW wasn’t just about one or two pieces of new tech, what it actually felt like was a glimpse into the not-so-distant future.
Trends you might of heard of like wearables, data and the internet of things are still around, but they’re beginning to grow-up and different industries are beginning to be disrupted as a result.
More than anything, the conference instilled a sense of responsibility in me. The decisions we make today, as people, as agencies and as brands will define the future we live in tomorrow.
The deck covers the most prominent trends from this year. I'd love to hear your thoughts, say hello @ashikachauhan.
Ashika Chauhan is Big’s Digital Experience Director and is passionate about creative innovation.
Curiosity Stop Special: Techcrunch Disrupt 2016We Are Social
Techcrunch Disrupt is where some of the world’s most game-changing technologies and tech innovations are first revealed. Didn’t get a chance to go? Fear not. We've identified six of the most interesting themes and talks from this year to keep you in the know of what’s going to be big over the coming months.
The document provides an introduction to digital marketing concepts for traditional marketers and agencies. It discusses how consumers have changed and now expect to engage with brands through two-way conversations rather than one-way advertising. It emphasizes that successful digital marketing involves creating conversations with consumers by appealing to them on an emotional level and giving them stories worth sharing with others through word-of-mouth. It also outlines key concepts like user-centered design, microsites, analytics and the importance of a balanced team with the right skills to implement these strategies effectively.
This is a presentation I give to marketers who are using traditional methodologies to "communicate" with their core audiences. The purpose of this presentation is to educate and introduce traditional marketers and advertisers to the new consumer truths as well as educate them on the basics of interactive marketing and creative standards that fuel consumers conversations.
This is also used as a 101 to traditional agencies that are trying to build a digital culture with in their discipline sets.
Advertising in 2020, tom morton's ipa talk, 24 january 2011Tom Morton
1) The document discusses how the advertising industry will need to change and adapt to thrive in the future.
2) Key points that will shape the future industry include the rise of subscription-based content, the continued importance of social media, and new technologies that could improve lives or just be interruptive.
3) To succeed, the industry will need to build the new world alongside the old one, follow economic and audience trends, experiment and learn from results rather than make rigid plans.
This document discusses the future of social media and how brands can adapt to changing technologies. In 3 sentences:
Brands are no longer defined by marketers but by online conversations, so they must become part of discussions to grow. As attention becomes scarce, brands need to provide entertaining, engaging content to be recommended rather than just interrupting people. By testing many ideas, embracing failures, and adapting quickly to changes online, brands can remain relevant in the future of social media.
The document discusses key digital trends that will shape the digital frontier in 2016 and beyond. It outlines 10 trends, including the growth of the Internet of Things and connected devices, the shift to an "outcome economy" focused on results rather than products, the use of virtual and augmented reality to provide immersive experiences, and the increasing role of artificial intelligence and t-commerce in how consumers interact with media and make purchases. The trends reflect an acceleration of the digital world where technology continuously evolves and brands must innovate to meet evolving user needs and preferences.
Payment Week - Andrew Barnes, Managing Director___WePayAndrew Barnes
The document discusses several topics related to mobile payments and commerce:
- HouseTab launches a new mobile app aimed at socializing bar and nightlife scenes by allowing groups to easily split payments via their phones.
- An interview covers trends in mobile analytics, location-based technologies like beacons, and the importance of responsive design for merchants. Video and app partnerships may be growing trends.
- The upcoming Mobile Shopping Conference in October will focus on attribution, location, and personalization for improving mobile commerce. Speakers will share lessons on analytics, in-store offers, and incentivizing customer location tracking.
MCAD 2009 - Future of Advertising: session #01 recapTim Brunelle
Here's an edited recap of my in-class presentation for the first session of the "Future of Advertising" course at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). Please note the Creative Commons license. Thanks.
CES 2014 Key Insights for Agencies by Peter Bray, Director of Digital at Saat...Peter Bray
Peter Bray summarizes 6 key insights from CES 2014 that are relevant for advertising agencies. The insights are: 1) "Shop and Awe" marketing uses targeted, frequent messages based on consumer data and profiles; 2) Content needs personalized curation to be more relevant; 3) Native advertising that integrates seamlessly will rise over banners; 4) Data allows recognition of individuals, not archetypes; 5) Budgets should focus 90% on planning vs 10% on reactive tactics; and 6) Brands must engage in two-way storybuilding by listening to consumers.
Iot & Digital Signage: The invisible Elephant in the roomviewneo
White Paper: Contents
1. We are undergoing a significant transformation
1.1. Online and offline worlds are growing closer together
1.2. An insight into the consumers of the future: Millennials
2. What happens when IoT meets Digital Signage?
2.1. Digital signage meets Big Data
2.1. Event Driven Content & Content Driven Events
3. Digital Signage: smarter through IFTTT
4. How the Internet of Things will change Digital Signage
In this issue of WIN World Insights, we bring you the basics of the latest technological trends. Because, when you begin to understand them, you realize how they will hugely
impact our businesses, our lives and our future.
The document provides an overview of a masterclass on using Twitter effectively. It discusses understanding the language of Twitter, engaging in conversations on the platform, and using it to build social capital. It notes that as of the last 24 months, smartphone penetration in the UK is at 78% and mobile/tablet is the preferred way for new customers to discover brands. It also discusses some side effects of social media like decreased ability to concentrate and remember information as people rely on crowdsourcing answers.
The document discusses the rise of smart customers and how digital innovation is empowering customers and leaving many companies behind. Key points include:
- Customers now have access to vast amounts of information through their smartphones and digital devices, allowing them to research products, compare prices, read reviews and be more informed than ever before.
- This has led to radically higher expectations from customers around experience, personalization and convenience. Companies that do not adapt risk falling behind.
- Four major disruptive forces are driving these changes - social influence, pervasive memory, digital sensors and the physical web. Together they are providing customers with more choices and better information.
Paul Price gave a presentation on how data can drive marketing growth. He discussed how new technologies and modeling are revealing insights about consumer behavior that can predict growth. Price explained how companies can now achieve unprecedented intimacy with customers by analyzing vast amounts of online data. He provided examples of how predictive modeling can be used to increase sales, customer loyalty, and target advertising more effectively down to the neighborhood level. Drew Slaven of Mercedes-Benz then discussed how working with Rapp has improved Mercedes-Benz's direct marketing sales rate by 50% through the use of data, analytics, and modeling.
Conversation Agent presents: Marketing in 2014Valeria Maltoni
Marketing in 2014 discusses several trends that will impact marketing, including:
1. Marketers will need to become more agile and adaptable as the pace of change accelerates and customers shift platforms more quickly.
2. Marketers will take on more anthropological roles, exploring what motivates customers and following their behaviors across channels.
3. Thoughtful, values-driven campaigns and content will continue to resonate more strongly with audiences over campaigns focused solely on products. Marketers will need to focus on creating experiences worth having.
The document discusses how the foundations of the ultimate customer experience were created in medieval marketplaces over 1,000 years ago, with highly personal interactions, immediate feedback loops, and success depending on word-of-mouth reputation. It argues that while mass media disrupted this for a century, digital technologies are reconnecting businesses to these core marketplace values of personal connections and word of mouth. For companies to succeed with digital customer experience requires adopting a "Medieval Mindset" and overcoming cultural impediments within organizations.
The Web Summit 2014 document provides a summary of the key topics, trends, learnings, and insights from the annual technology conference. Some of the major discussions included the continued exponential growth of technology and how it is decreasing the time needed to create value; the shift to more engaged audiences who are creators rather than just consumers; and the importance of storytelling and focusing on the consumer for both tech companies and brands. Privacy, big data, and the future of virtual reality were also highlighted as important issues covered at the event.
Creators, innovators, futurists and blockchain enthusiasts all descended on Austin for the annual SXSW Interactive Conference. The mash-up of industries, technologies and eyeopening presentations makes for an event that is ripe with insights and inspiration.
This year, we were joined by team members from New York, Austin, Singapore and San Juan to learn about what’s on the horizon, what’s here already and why it matters to brands and marketers. Read on for our 2018 takeaways from SXSW.
7 Predictions for 2017 from a Cloudy Crystal Ball Young & Rubicam
This document provides 7 predictions for 2017 from a global CEO. The predictions are:
1. Algorithms and programmatic advertising will lose their luster as there is a movement toward adding more human insight.
2. Media will return to more human roots with more accountability for ad placement.
3. Fake news will continue to be an issue with the creators, platforms and publishers profiting while brands find audiences.
4. TV will continue to grow in importance across all platforms and devices, and advertising will play a key role in reducing content costs.
5. Live events will remain uniquely powerful experiences that are enhanced but not replaced by virtual reality and augmented reality.
6. There will be
The document provides a summary of key takeaways and insights from CES 2017 from the perspective of Y&R team members. Some of the main insights include:
- Virtual reality is still in its infancy with a need for more high-value content to drive consumer adoption.
- Chatbots and AI continued to expand, with a focus on interpreting unstructured data.
- Wearables delivered more personalized solutions but adoption remains a challenge.
- TVs focused on larger screens, higher resolution, and innovations like haptic feedback.
- Fitness and health remained areas of heavy investment and product innovation.
Mongolia is a country better known for its vast wilderness and harsh climate than its business potential, but a growing number of international brands are warming to this fast-growth market – and with good reason.
Planners in advertising embark upon all sorts of quests to uncover the truths about our audiences, learning about people through data and focus groups— eXploring, as we call it at Y&R. But rarely do they attempt something as ambitious as a recent Y&R project: seven days of literal exploration in Myanmar, a country that’s a mystery to the outside world.
Through the pains of early British colonization and decades of military rule, today’s Myanmar is finally emerging from isolation. We wanted to understand this wildcard of a country—and potential new market. Rather than researching from a distance, we explored the country. The result is a new VML, Y&R, VICE Media collaboration: an adventurous, groundbreaking new feature called “7 Days Out.”
The collaboration was the brainchild of VML Singapore planning director, Rahul Chawra. Vice Media sent VML Planner Siddharth Seth to Yangon, the cultural capital of Myanmar, where he immersed himself for seven days in its culture and uncovered unexpected and inspiring insights. In “The New Faces of Yangon” Seth met with modern day artists, spiritual leaders, business innovators, and trailblazers like Thazin Nyut Aung from the female rap group Y.A.K.
Read more and watch the feature produced with VICE Media here:
http://bit.ly/2cEzSWe
Every year, planners at Y&R share a roundup of today’s most interesting trends and their inherent tension. 2015 Asia Trends with Tension report takes on an array of topics from women to craftsman to culture.
Every year, planners at Y&R share a roundup of today’s most interesting trends and their inherent tension. This year’s North American Trends with Tension report takes on an array of topics from big data to PC culture to food fetishization.
For one week each year Sin City plays host to the next-generation of innovations and technologies before they’re introduced to the marketplace. This year, more than 200,000 attendees came to CES to walk through 2.5 million square feet of trade show space to see the latest drones, connected cars, TVs and smartphones, and even a VR device that gives you the sensation of flying through the sky like a superhero.
Y&R sent some of our brightest minds to take in the sights and sounds of CES 2016. Here’s what they had to say:
Reduce, Reuse, Rethink: 9 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Office Mor...Young & Rubicam
In celebration of Earth Day, Y&R's INSPIRE shares practical tips on how you can "go green" in your office today. INSPIRE is Y&R's sustainability practice, find out more at www.yrgrp.com/inspire
Newton’s Third Law of Physics states “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” – and Y&R’s Global Planning Director Sandy Thompson has found this to be true for consumer trends, as well. She and her global planners put together "Trends with Tension," a new report that examines how emerging trends tend to have two, oppositional sides.
Social Media Week: Towards Social AwesomenessYoung & Rubicam
Y&R Chicago Social/Digital Planning Director Greg Getner's "Social Awesomeness" presentation from Social Media Week looks at various brands-states in the social space.
Americans associate certain brands with qualities of the United States such as being down-to-earth, a leader, and visionary. Brands seen as embodying these qualities include Coca-Cola, Apple, and the U.S. Air Force. However, different age groups view different brands as best exemplifying American values and traits. Younger generations see brands like Google, Apple, and Disney as most aligned with America, while older generations associate food brands like Kraft, Hershey's, and Oreo most with American identity.
It's Game 5 of Y&R's Brand Cup powered by BAV!
Today, Japan takes on Colombia, so we pit Sony, the legendary electronics manufacturer, against Colombia's national airline, Avianca.
Which brand will come out on top? Game on!
Want to know who will win when Chile goes up against Australia?
We can’t predict the final goal count, but we can tell you who would win when we compare two of the countries' strongest brands!
Y&R has created its own Brand World Cup tournament using our BrandAsset® Valuator (BAV) data to celebrate the competing countries through culturally significant brands.
BAV is the world’s longest-running quantitative study of brands— actively tracking 50,000 brands in hundreds of categories in 51 countries.
The document discusses testing throughout the software development life cycle. It describes different software development models including sequential, incremental, and iterative models. It also covers different test levels from component and integration testing to system and acceptance testing. The document discusses different types of testing including functional and non-functional testing. It also covers topics like maintenance testing and triggers for additional testing when changes are made. Also covers concepts of Agile including DevOps, Shift Left Approach, TDD, BDD, ATDD, Retrospective and Process Improvement
Test Management as Chapter 5 of ISTQB Foundation. Topics covered are Test Organization, Test Planning and Estimation, Test Monitoring and Control, Test Execution Schedule, Test Strategy, Risk Management, Defect Management
Dev Dives: Mining your data with AI-powered Continuous DiscoveryUiPathCommunity
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Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with MilvusZilliz
We've seen an influx of powerful multimodal capabilities in many LLMs. In this talk, we'll vectorize a dataset of images and texts into the same embedding space, store them in Milvus, retrieve all relevant data using multilingual texts and/or images and input multimodal data as context into GPT-4o.
Chapter 3 of ISTQB Foundation 2018 syllabus with sample questions. Answers about what is static testing, what is review, types of review, informal review, walkthrough, technical review, inspection.
TrustArc Webinar - Your Guide for Smooth Cross-Border Data Transfers and Glob...TrustArc
Global data transfers can be tricky due to different regulations and individual protections in each country. Sharing data with vendors has become such a normal part of business operations that some may not even realize they’re conducting a cross-border data transfer!
The Global CBPR Forum launched the new Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules framework in May 2024 to ensure that privacy compliance and regulatory differences across participating jurisdictions do not block a business's ability to deliver its products and services worldwide.
To benefit consumers and businesses, Global CBPRs promote trust and accountability while moving toward a future where consumer privacy is honored and data can be transferred responsibly across borders.
This webinar will review:
- What is a data transfer and its related risks
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An invited talk given by Mark Billinghurst on Research Directions for Cross Reality Interfaces. This was given on July 2nd 2024 as part of the 2024 Summer School on Cross Reality in Hagenberg, Austria (July 1st - 7th)
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2. SXSW, the annual technology, film, and music
festival in Austin wrapped up this week. Each
year it gets bigger and bigger. More people. More
countries. More brands. More inspiration. More
ideas. More ideas that work.
Y&R Advertising sent some of its brightest minds
to the interactive portion and here’s what they
had to say about the trends at the intersection of
technology, innovation, and advertising, and what
they mean for brands today.
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3. Since Apple launched the iBeacon, there has
been plenty of buzz around the opportunities they
could create for retailers and for live events. Their
implementation could provide new avenues for
true consumer centricity. Yet these applications are
just scratching the surface so far. Here at SXSW,
the entire event is covered by a beacon-powered
social network, which allowed attendees to find and
network with others in the same location. The best
thing I found at SXSW was the Intel iKeg, which uses
beacons to track and manage the beer supply chain,
letting bartenders know when their kegs are about
to run dry. It’s clear beacons could have plenty of
applications both within and outside marketing.
beacons are
getting big01.
Matt Farrugia
Managing Partner, GPY&R Melbourneu
4. While it’s certainly not a new idea, ads that make you
laugh, cry or react emotionally are getting a lot of
attention. Of course, while emotion-based ideas make
award-winning advertising, brands are more attracted
to what else it creates: great results. Procter & Gamble,
one of the largest global advertisers, even has the
numbers to prove it. They took a look at 10 years’
worth of their ads from around the world and found
that emotion-driven ads were 9x more successful than
non-emotion-based ads. Drilling into the data even
further, they found that ads with a positive emotional
slant were 8x more successful. Surprisingly, even
negative ads were 2x more successful.
So the next time you’re beginning to think about how
your idea will make the most impact, stop thinking
about the target audience and starting focusing on
the human beings inside them. That just might get the
tears—and the results—flowing.
the rise of
SADvertising02.
Mark Norton
VP, Creative Strategy and Development, Y&R Austin
u
5. Social profiles on networks like Facebook, Twitter,
and Instagram show an incomplete glimpse into
peoples’ lives and often cause their viewers to feel
inadequate, sad or lonely. This has resulted in a
revolution against the permanence of content on
social feeds.
We are starting to see social media networks
that enforce the expiration of posted content and
require their users to experience content in real-
time. Snapchat already does this by remembering
only the last ten minutes of user-generated content
and refreshing premium content every 24-hours.
To add to the list is Meerkat and Periscope. These
applications enable users to run live video streams
from their phone and integrate with Twitter for
real-time engagement. Unlike other video content
the disappearance of
permanence03.
that is posted on Twitter, Meerkat and Periscope
streams only appear on Twitter feeds when live
and disappear once complete. We’ll see more
networks (though not all) adopt this model of social
media consumption because the notion of expiring
content paves the way for users to interact with less
inhibition and engage on deeper levels.
So what does this mean for brands? Placing lifelines
on social content will require brand messaging to
be even more relevant, timely and contextual to
their audience’s needs. But this also means that
the audience can be more trusting and forgiving
of a brand’s imperfections - as long as brands
iterate, deliver messaging that resonates, and show
that they are worthy of maintaining a personal
relationship.
Juan Charvet
Director of Experience Strategy, Y&R New York
u
6. Retail is dead; Long live retail! Physical retail is
getting the same data tools through beacons and
tracking systems to become as data-driven as the
e-commerce players, but with a personal touch.
Data is not everything: Big data was a major topic,
but underlying it was the acknowledgement that
although big data gives you huge insights, to be
really looking for new things and to really build
the connection, one can never forget the personal
element of the physical world.
future of retail
and data04.
Toon Diependaele
Chief Strategy Officer, These Days Y&R Antwerp
u
7. To paraphrase Papa John’s VP of Global Digital
Marketing Jim Ensign: We all have marketing FOMO.
We have so much fear of getting “left behind” that we
try to do everything and put out stuff that sucks. We
don’t think about trying to make it good, we just re-
size a banner ad and throw it out on mobile hoping it
sticks. Why? If we’re not cool with putting out an “ok”
TV ad, why are we cool with putting out an “ok” mobile
ad? We need to start thinking of mobile devices as
the tools that they are and give people a way of further
capitalizing on them via our brand – not just interrupt
their browsing.
With beacons coming along, we’ll be able to know when
people are shopping, where they are, when they’re
there, and possibly much more if we marry it with social
data. We’re going to go through the trouble of finding all
this out to send them a push notification that says “buy
our stuff while you’re here!” No, that sucks. Transactional
use of beacons or any other mobile utility will never
be sustainable, people will just learn to ignore it like
everything else. We need to take the time to think of
how your goals can be met through all/any of mobile’s
capabilities – email, social, SMS, push notifications, in-
game prompts, screenshotting, (call-to-action: show this
screen shot somewhere and get a free____) etc.
Let’s quit just re-sizing our banners for fear of missing
out.
05. bad use of mobile comes from
marketing FOMO
Gustavo Quintero
Brand Planner, Y&R New York
u
8. In an age where everyone is trying to create sticky, shareable,
consumable content, we (as content creators) are often telling our
customers what they want to consume. What we really need to be
doing is creating lots of content quickly (low cost, short production)
and having the market tell us what they want more of. Users don’t want
to click on a banner anymore to go to your site and consume your
content on our terms. Advertisers have been afraid of putting their
content out in the market to be consumed outside of their channels
but if they don’t they will just be abandoned. We have to put content
where people want it (native advertising, social media feeds, in apps)
and develop feedback mechanisms to still learn from these efforts. No
piece of content - no matter how great you think it is - has any value if
there isn’t a way to capture data from it.
content marketing:
leverage your assets06.
Meredith Cuevas
Account Director, Y&R Austin
u
9. Actress Jessica Alba spoke about building a
lifestyle brand called The Honest Company –
touted to be the next Johnson & Johnson. The
idea for the company – which began in the
baby category – came to Alba when she had
her first-born. Suddenly it was important to find
effective, safe, affordable, beautifully designed
and conveniently available products – and they
just weren’t out there for Alba. Cue a big business
idea. The three-year-old business turned over
$150 million last year and is now valued at over
$1 billion. As a company for today, it answers
the “Internet-Shaped Expectations” of customers
now: Transparency, Speed, Control, Abundance
a company for
today? honestly07.
(the concept of an “endless aisle”), Interaction (the
chance to be both creator and consumer), and
Bespoke (a tailored experience). And it also caters
to the shopping experience demanded today:
Value, Stress-Free, Efficiency (everything in one
place, quick and convenient), Information, and Fun.
As well as a great story, it reminded me of what
it takes to be successful in business in 2015. And
while you can dismiss The Honest Company as an
actor’s folly, there is real substance and value there,
and useful lessons for us all. Perhaps we all need
to push the limits of compromise just that little bit
further.
Jon Bird
Global Managing Director, Y&R Labstore
u
10. When the Internet of Things first became a, well,
thing last year, it was more about solutions looking
for problems. But as Claro Partners’ Chris Massot so
rightly stressed during his Does the IoT Need to be
User-Centered? We say Yes panel, “where there is a
need, there is technology.”
And what that need for consumers today is
technology that will positively affect their quality of
life – helping them to live healthier and less stressed
lives. As we move more into the realm where
connected devices become more commonplace
it’s important to remember that while historically
technology has the man working the machine,
this new era needs to flip that dynamic and build
experiences for life, not machines.
the internet of
people08.
So less sensors that let you know when a chicken
lays an egg, and more smart socks that can detect
ulcers on diabetics, and more sleep monitors and
lights bulbs that work to better your sleep cycles.
And while the thoughts of drones someday
becoming as everyday as cellphone towers seems
intrusive (and downright frightening), when it comes
to healthcare that may be the future we’re looking
at. As one speaker mentioned to me, a drone could
be beneficial in life and death situations especially
in large cities like New York City, where the average
response time for an ambulance is about 6 minutes,
and a person suffering a heart attack has about 4
minutes.
Sulaiman Beg
Director of Global Digital and Social
Communications, Y&R Global
u
11. This may be a given considering SXSW is a festival
of innovation after all, but the technologies on
display are absolutely unbelievable. From prosthetic
limbs that can be controlled by reading the wearer’s
brain, to clothes that change color based on the
environment they’re in, it’s clear we will never stop
pushing the boundaries.
And maybe these things won’t directly impact
advertising (right now?) but they should sure inspire
us all to push the limits of what we can do with
technology, how we can interact with people, and
what we can do to share our brands’ message and
experiences with consumers around the world.
technology will
never stop
inspiring
09.
Matt Farrugia
Managing Partner, GPY&R Melbourneu
12. There is no doubt that the retail world is going through
some challenging and dynamic times. With both
physical and digital stores adapting to new technologies
and responding to changing consumer behaviours, it’s
interesting to watch how retailers respond and change
the experience they are creating. Jennifer Hyman, CEO
of Rent the Runway, offered up these insights on the
future of retail and how retailers need to adapt:
Analytics is King: The “Rent the Runway”
analytics team not only analyze sales data but
project pricing by demand, provide predictive
models for designers around what styles will be
“kept the longest” and code all the products and
garments at POS
10. redefining the next generation
retail experience
Forget the Dove “Real Beauty” Campaign: Her
research indicated that women overwhelmingly
described themselves as ‘smart,’ but felt retail
brands weren’t talking to them in a way that
recognised this. Many had forgotten that they
are selling a sense of confidence, not simply
clothing.
Reinvent for Relevance: Retailers must begin to
deliver an experience that can’t live purely online
OR offline. Perhaps it’s turning stores into service
centres, entertainment hubs or diversified
offerings. Being known simply as the ‘menswear
shop’ will no longer provide business longevity.
Julian Bell
Managing Partner, GPY&R Melbourneu