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Modern marketing success requires more than great commercials. Outside of live televised events, advertising is easy to avoid. People can skip ads, and 46% of American homes are now equipped with DVRs. The on-demand life is only becoming more on-demand.
Dish Network's Hopper with Sling DVR lets you skip ads entirely, and technically won Best in Show at CES this year. Netflix just released David Fincher's new original series, "House of Cards," to much fanfare, and instead of following the traditional release model, made all thirteen episodes available at once: when, where, how you want it, and ad-free.
As Mary Meeker pointed out in her presentation on the state of the internet, digital is disrupting virtually every aspect of life — from photography to entertainment to education to transportation to shopping to publishing to the very concept of ownership. You name it. Advertisers have to imagine more and more scenarios in which traditional ads just don't have a place anymore. We need to invent new models and find new ways to connect with consumers around the content they love....
This is a thoughtful post and a good read for marketing, advertising and PR pros.