Last year, Super Bowl XLI was interesting in that the Doritos commercial was made from user-generated content and this year for Super Bowl XLII they promoted their brand with user-generated music. Regarding advertising, there were the “usual suspects” who provided acceptable, entertaining commercials that were spoken about at the water cooler the following week; but from a social networking or technological view this Super Bowl was a bit of […]
While we have a classic case of challenging those who control the “means of production,” there is something new that the Writers Guild of America should worry about. This is a test of Network-Centric Marketing – of the “wisdom of crowds,” of social networking, and of public relations and brand management. CSI is already on Second Life, inviting viewers to “act” in its virtual episode. While the basic script […]
There once was a company with a proud brand. They talked about how to strengthen the brand, how to promote the brand, and how to leverage the brand. When I asked how they measured the efficacy of his “branding,” they had no answer. They ran no focus groups regularly. They polled no customers. They held no internal meetings to develop a measurement methodology. They could […]