Alef Aeronautics recently received a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which grants them permission to start testing their “Model A” flying car. It doesn’t mean the cars are ready to go to market, but this is still a huge step forward for the technology.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, many college athletic conferences have decided to postpone or outright cancel fall sports, including college football. As Advertising Age points out, “The move would disrupt the fall marketing calendars of dozens of brands, from beers and sodas to automakers and insurance marketers, that rely on the sport's reach to capture coveted audiences.”
I studied postmodern American literature in college, so the idea of recycling historical content and putting a new spin, or voice, on it rings a lot of familiar bells for me. It seems that advertising has started to catch up to other industries in its efforts to recycle and reuse the gold mine of existing content at their disposal to trigger attention with a wave of nostalgia.
Real-time marketing, a golden opportunity for brands to capitalize on what the collective world has eyes on, is effective when done well, but embarrassing when it’s not. With the ability to quickly reach a huge number of people comes the double-edged sword of blunders going viral for all the wrong reasons.
At the end of 2010, Google began its official rollout of Product Listing Ads (PLA), eventually moving to an all paid Google Shopping model at the end of 2012.
Kenshoo Social released some interesting research conducted by Forrester Consulting back in May, and I'm excited to share some highlights.
