context

Insights showing where smartphones are used (Infographic)

by Graham Brown on November 10, 2011

Increasingly mobile companies need to understand context.We need to understand not just what services youth are using on their mobile phone but also the context in which they are used. See the infographic below by Tatango to get an idea on where smartphones are used today. Interestingly, none of these options cite “toilet” or “bed” [...]

You can now access short bites from our Youth Marketing Handbook in the form of individual chapters. This week, we’re revisiting Context (see earlier post on Context) and focusing on the shift from Content to Context. What does this mean to youth marketers? We sometimes use Lego bricks in client presentations to illustrate the difference [...]

Trend: Context

July 6, 2011

In mobile, youth increasingly buy social context over good content. That means the success of mobile brands now depends on determining their social context.

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New Presentation: Paid vs Earned Media

April 26, 2011

Part of the Trends 101 Series In youth marketing attention is your biggest cost. We live in an Age of Discovery where brands are defined not by what marketers say and features agencies accentuate but by what youth can discover and how brands facilitate that process. Attention is just an invitation not the end game [...]

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Be a Platform not a Product

October 3, 2009

Don’t fall in love with your product. Don’t fall in love with your campaign. Don’t fall in love with the big idea. Don’t fall in love with your agency. Do fall in love with the context. Do fall in love with your customer. Do fall in love with the community. Do fall in love. It [...]

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