Крупнейший розничный продавец цифровой техники устроит праздник для геймеров, чтобы увеличить продажи дорогих компьютеров В конце апреля в пяти крупнейших московских магазинах «Эльдорадо» стартует День геймера — с турнирами по компьютерным и видеоиграм, презентациями игровых новинок и викторинами, рассказал пресс-секретарь компании Илья Новохатский. Далее
«Эльдорадо» вступит в схватку
Monday, April 6, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Альтернативного маркетинга не существует... Да здравствует актуальный маркетинг!


Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Trend One: THE FUTURE MICRO-TRENDS IN MEDIA, MARKETING AND TECHNOLOGY
Pun your way out of trouble

Kenneth Cole is becoming notorious for pun-filled copy that makes light of current events (after 9/11, Cole famously put up a billboard in New York reading “God Dress America”). Now the American clothing retailer is adopting the light-hearted approach to appeal to the credit-strapped consumer during the most difficult economic situation in living memory. “The future is about to be redressed,” reads one store window, while another urges us to “Avoid bare markets.” (Bare = bear, geddit?) Men are told to “Cover your ass-ets,” women to “Become a stimulus package.”
Are we to think the Kenneth Cole brand is so crassly shallow that we should buy from it out of sympathy? Or are consumers, tired of the doom-laden hyperbole, ready to gravitate to a brand that’s making a joke of it all? What is the role of humor for a brand in an anxious world? Maybe it is in Mr. Cole’s ken.
Source JWT’s AnxietyIndex
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Видеогеймеры — более ценные потребители
Люди, которые активно играют в видеоигры, являются более ценными потребителями, чем те, кто играми не увлекается, — утверждают в IGN Entertainment и Ipsos Media CT. Исследование потребительских привычек видеогеймеров «Are You Game?» (PDF) было проведено в июне 2008 года Ipsos MediaCT среди 3 тыс. пользователей Сети в возрасте от 12 до 54 лет. Выдержки из него приводит Marketing Charts. Подробнее здесьMonday, October 27, 2008
Продолжение нашего совместного проекта с OMI и журналом "Секрет Фирмы": Пятьдесят лет выдержки

Когда закрылась частная школа, в которой она преподавала последние восемь лет, Нина Михайловна расстроилась — "всего три года до пенсии, а тут такая напасть". Но вскоре поняла, что теперь может позволить себе то, до чего не доходили руки в 20, 30 и 40 лет. "Раньше я растворялась в воспитании детей, работе и хлопотах по хозяйству. А после пятидесяти неожиданно получила массу свободного времени и зажила активно",— говорит она.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Our Old Language

Our behaviour and the technologies we use change faster than the language we use (I'm still "spinning" when I'm DJ'ing, even though the only thing spinning these days is my hard drive).
Similarily, old models trap us into using outdated mental constructs to make sense of a world that no longer really fits those models. I'm fascinated by this, and the process by which we collectively abandon those old models.
Journalism and the "news" is a perfect example. Matt over at the Newsless.org has written a series of brilliant posts over the past couple of months that explore new ways of thinking about journalism. An emerging theme is the assertion that the article is no longer the basic unit of the news
From what I can tell, we inherited this state of affairs from our printed predecessors. When we started news sites, there was just no other plainly obvious way to present news stories, and most of those stories were coming from the newspaper at any rate. So we presented them on the Web the same way we do in print — discrete, self-contained compositions, including whatever context could fit into a paragraph or two, ornamented with photos and graphics.
Parallels to how marketers and brands think about media and communication are pretty clear. For the most part, the discret, self-contained composition has the "creative idea" (or, the television advertisement). Mostly because, well, that's the way it has been, technology packaged it like that, and so on.
Matt has some brilliant thoughts on what the future looks like, starting with the understanding that "every news event represents a data point to another story", and that a richer understanding of the broader topic might generate further interest in that topic. Many of the other data points might not be known to us right away, but it will be the job of journalism to provide that context by using powers of pattern recognition to connect the dots (planners pick up your pencils and get to work, because in marketing that will be you doing the lion's share of pattern recognition).
So, rather than think of articles as compact pieces limited by the physical space they once occupied (in print for instance), and aimed at a target audience of people who knew what the story was all about in the first place because where would you have the luxury to spell out the context?, the job now is to expand our understanding by building richer stories, more layers and a stronger context for the interconnected pieces.
That last point is crucial, especially when thinking about brands and media, since we'll need to make sure that we don't confuse the article (the advertising) from the story (the context, the interconnected ecosystem of nodes that "bubble up" to a something much bigger). For, as Matt says, somewhat echoing a transmedia vision of what the future might look like.
