Uncommon Sense: The Appification of TV
For over 50 years, there was only a single "app" for TV viewers. The sole function of that app—the cable or satellite company—was to stream premium video content. The facts of yesterday’s TV viewing no longer hold. There are now many TV viewing apps available. Enter "the appification of TV."
Uncommon Sense: The Problem With Your Brand Value and What You Should Do About It
The problem with brand value is simple: no one agrees on it. The GE brand value, for example, in 2011, was variously estimated to be worth $30.5B, $42.8B, and $50.3B by different valuation services. So if valuations vary so wildly, how can CMOs and CFOs begin to understand the value they deliver...
Uncommon Sense: Making Measurement Work for Programmatic Ad Buying
The ad industry has always been consumed with the latest trends. This should be no surprise, given that marketers and their agencies spend the better part of their days trying to create them. But nothing in advertising has generated more buzz in recent months than programmatic buying. Buying ad...
Uncommon Sense: Will There Be an Advertising Singularity?
In 1993, Vernor Vinge, a retired professor of mathematics, computer scientist and award-winning science fiction author, argued that the creation of superhuman artificial intelligence would mark the point at which “the human era will be ended.” This idea, associated in popular thinking...
The Asian Mobile Consumer Decoded
Smartphone penetration in the Asia-Pacific region is booming. In fact, penetration in a number of markets in the region is approaching saturation point, having already eclipsed penetration levels in the U.S. and many European nations. While Nielsen expects the growth in ownership of connected...