[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] It used to be that the people who presented weather and traffic segments on the news were as dry as the topics they covered. They didn’t have the fatherly gravitas of the anchorman, the dashing charisma of the foreign correspondents, or the warmth and relatability of the lifestyle reporters. They just [...]
Mar 11, 2013 | Categories:Brands, Features, Media, PR, Technology, Trends | Tags: AccuWeather, Al Roker, anchorman, Business Insider, Chuck Leavell, crowdsourcing, Dave Price, Dennis Crowley, extreme weather, Forbes.com, foreign correspondent, Google, Google Maps, hottest weather forecasters, iPhone, Jalopnik, lifestyle reporter, local broadcast, meteorologist, Mother Nature Network, national broadcast, National Weather Service, physical appearance, reality TV, Rolling Stones, sidekick, Swackett, The Early Show, Today, traffic, traffic reporter, Waze, weather, weather reporter | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on PRWeek.com.] This is the first in a series of three posts that will discuss what I see as a PR émigré managing in a world where evolution meets revolution. You’ve heard it said that the future is now. That’s much closer to the truth than it was even a half-decade ago. I [...]
Oct 24, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, PR, Technology, Trends | Tags: Apple, future, Havas, iPhone, Media, newscrafting, normal, place making, PR, PR tools, PRWeek, public relations, supercities, Technology, the economy, The End of Normal, tools, trendspotting | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] The words “business” and “business leader” often conjure up Dow Jones–size companies and the big names who lead them. We’re almost as fascinated by stars of big business as by stars of the big screen. And why not? A recent Forbes article pleading “Bring Back the Celebrity CEO” makes the case [...]
Oct 22, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, Health and Wellness, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, apps, Bill Gates, blog, branding, Burnt Peaks, business, business leader, CEOs, Chris MacAskill, community, company brands, customers, Dollar Shave Club, Don MacAskill, Facebook, fitness, Forbes, Internet, iPhone, James Mairs, Jeff Bezos, King of Shaves, Meg Whitman, personal branding, personal brands, Phil Knight, purpose, Queen of Shaves, Richard Branson, RunKeeper, Silicon Valley, small businesses, SmugMug, Social Media, taking risks, Tony Hsieh, Twitter, Venture for America, Will King, Zappos | Leave A Comment »
I have Sept. 12 circled on my calendar. The day that could change my life. The day I might decide to say “yes” to a certain someone who is going to be there for me, for better or for worse, all the days of … a two-year phone contract. When I heard that Apple might [...]
Sep 05, 2012 | Categories:Features, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone 5, consumer behavior, emotion, Galaxy, Galaxy S III, Google Chrome, iPhone, iPhone 5, mobile, mobile technology, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, smartphone, The Hunger Games, Verizon | 3 Comments »
[Originally posted on Euro RSCG’s Social Life and Social Media blog.] If we want to characterize the growth in many industries as slowing to a plateau, then the PR industry’s growth might be best described as mountainous. Whether we recognize it or not, there’s a change in our society that is turning people into social [...]
Jun 20, 2012 | Categories:Features, PR, Social Media, Trends | Tags: balance, consumers, Facebook, iPhone, news, PR, public relations, Social Media, social networking, Trends, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
Fewer of us are using the telephone for the purpose for which it was created: talking. A new term, “telephobia,” has been coined; voice calls are down 12 percent since 2009, and a growing number of us consider voice mail antiquated and/or bothersome. Leading us to wonder: How many among us feel fear or anxiety [...]
Jun 18, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends | Tags: Android, Apple, cellphone, cellphone trends, commerce, digital trends, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, GPS, iPhone, Marian Salzman, oversharing, phone, phone trends, SEO, smart number, smartphone trends, SMS trends, talking on phone, telephobia | Leave A Comment »
If you’ve ever gotten download happy and stocked up on free apps for your smartphone but then neglected to use the app after a cursory look, you’re not alone. Experts say we either really, really like our apps (enough to devote an hour a day to them) or lose interest in them very quickly. Sixty-eight [...]
Mar 21, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Android, app marketplace, BlackBerry, Digital Book World Conference, Facebook, iPhone, phone apps, Research in Motion, smartphone apps, smartphones, technology trends, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
All that end-of-the-year optimism about e-book sales got a hip check when a new study found that 74 percent of bookworms have yet to purchase an e-book, even though the number of book buyers who also purchased an e-book rose 17 percent in 2011. E-book popularity varies greatly by genre, accounting today for 26 percent [...]
Mar 01, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Technology, Trends | Tags: Android, Apple, author, book, digital, digital books, e-books, enhanced books, iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Mac computer, power buyers, publishing, Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablet, technology trends, writer | Leave A Comment »
Think of a question, any question. We’re willing to bet that Apple’s much-hyped Siri feature will answer you in her sultry, mechanical voice. After all, “she” holds the answers to a billion burning questions. One technology trendspotter has proclaimed 2012 the year that Siri “stuns the world.” Already it’s done wonders for Apple’s sales, helping [...]
Feb 16, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Android, Apple, digital personal assistant, Dragon Go!, Evi, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 4S, Siri, smartphones, Social Media, Steve Jobs, technology trends | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on the Huffington Post.] Behold the velocity of change, where technology has enabled a Mach 11 approach to spreading and receiving information. And as an outcome of all this now-or-now business, the rumor mill is not only buzzing but also shouting down the lane. It’s not at all unlike the virus portrayed in [...]
Nov 01, 2011 | Categories:Brands, Features, PR, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Anthony Weiner, Apple, Ashton Kutcher, buzz, change, China, Demi Moore, Facebook, freedom of speech, hype, Internet, iPhone, Kodak, Los Angeles Times, McDonald's, Occupy Wall Street, PR, public relations, Sina Weibo, Social Media, TMZ, transparency, Vladimir Putin, Whole Foods | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Holmes Report. Remember that Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime”? It could be the anthem for marketers today struggling to figure out what to do in this techy, techy world. Is the ad biz having the equivalent of a midlife crisis as it searches for ways to reach, retool and [...]
Sep 09, 2011 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Marketing, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Apple, Austin, Bill Cosby, BlackBerry, Cannes, digital, DVR, Facebook, iPhone, Jell-O, Mac, McKinsey, PC, Silicon Valley, smartphones, Social Media, Technology, tweets, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. I recently spotted a stat on Ad Age about how today’s millennials (68 percent of them) ask friends for their opinion before they try a restaurant. I’ve done a lot of research on the Y set and know they are very codependent (why do anything solo except perhaps an [...]
Jul 14, 2011 | Categories:Features, Social Media | Tags: "like" culture, Advertising Age, approval, Austin, blogs, blur, Connecticut, crowdsourcing, digital age, Facebook, Generation Y, Instagram, iPhone, millennials, mycasting, Neil Strauss, Nike iD, offline, online, Park Slope, self-expression, Social Media, The Wall Street Journal, tweets, Twitter, YouTube | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on Euro RSCG Worldwide’s Prosumer Report microsite. Remember that scene in Bye Bye Birdie in which a teenaged Ann-Margret starts a telephone chain with all her friends? For the millennial generation, making actual phone calls feels about as relevant as a musical that’s set in the 1950s. True, “Glee” has made the younger [...]
Apr 22, 2011 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology | Tags: apps, brand, cell phone, communication, communications tool, Facebook, iPhone, landlines, millennials, mobile, Pandora, smart phone, telephone, texting, YouTube | Leave A Comment »
“You’re invited as Anne Hathaway and James Franco host OSCAR®.” The way the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC are marketing the 83rd Annual Academy Awards sounds like a dinner party—and one this movie lover wishes she could attend! As someone with a potentially unhealthy interest in arts and entertainment, and a [...]
Feb 25, 2011 | Categories:Features, Social Media | Tags: ABC, Academy Awards, Anne Hathaway, Apple, awards shows, celebrities, Facebook, Fashion, Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, Grammys, Hollywood, interactive, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, James Franco, Oscars, People.com, Ricky Gervais, Rolling Stone, Social Media, The Social Network, TwitPic, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
I’ll start by saying I was born and raised an Apple loyalist. Dating to early home videos of me and my siblings opening our very first Macintosh computer on Christmas morning, we’ve been an Apple-savvy family. Of course, those were simpler times, when there were far fewer choices and some might argue we were worse [...]
Feb 09, 2011 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: 3G, 4G, Apple, Best Buy, choice, consumer, convenient, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, marketer, Ozzy Osbourne, Super Bowl | Leave A Comment »
For the record, “snowpocalypse” is not one of my favorite blurred terms. Ever since the first big storm hit the Northeast this winter—through to this week, with me in Dubai and my family in Connecticut, where power was out one night because of an ice storm and half a foot of snow is threatening as [...]
Jan 21, 2011 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: AccuWeather, climate, Connecticut, control, conversation, Dubai, earthquake, Facebook, Fashion, hurricane, iPhone, Miami, Michael Kors, Newark, online shopping, PR campaign, real time, snow, snowpocalypse, Social Media, social network, SoMe, St. Barth's, The Weather Channel, tornado, Twitter, weather, winter, Wunderground | 2 Comments »
This is the 11th in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. How does a trend get legs? Some trends start small and grow elephantine as if by force of nature, like the rise [...]
Dec 13, 2010 | Categories:CSR, Features, Health and Wellness, Technology, Trends | Tags: Africa, Android, Apple, apps, Asia, Black Friday, BusinessWeek, change, digital banking, Flipboard, Havas, Health and Wellness, IMF, innovators, iPad, iPhone, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Latin America, Mark Penn, micro-inverters, Microtrends, minitrends, MIT, mobile, mobile banking, mobile phones, Mobile World Congress, Nokia, Project Masiluleke, recession, Renewable Energy World, Reuters News Pro, small-scale solar, SMS banking, South Africa, TechCrunch, Technology Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TMCnet, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, U.N. Foundation, Vodafone, women | 2 Comments »
This is the third in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. There’s a loss-of-faith crisis, and it’s as movement-ready as the one that led Jerry Rubin to pen the Yippie manifesto in 1968. [...]
Dec 01, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, Barbra Streisand, Brands, Chemistry.com, China, communication, connectivity, consumption, convenience, Copains d'avant, CPM, Diet Coke, divorce, Duck Sauce, e-commerce, eBay, eHarmony, Facebook, faith, Foursquare, France, FreshDirect, Google, Gowalla, India, ineractivity, institutions, Internet, iPhone, Japan, Jerry Rubin, LinkedIn, Match.com, Mentos, Microsoft, mobile, niche, Orkut, personal CPMs, QQ, Richard Nixon, self-reliance, smart phone, Social Media, Technology, Thumbman, Trends, trendspotting, Twitter, U.K., values, Yahoo, Yippie, YouTube | 8 Comments »
This is the first in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. Despite the relatively peaceable environment abroad—there’s a successful coalition, for now, in the U.K., and Australians still appear confident despite debt problems—the [...]
Nov 29, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Politics, Social Media, Trends | Tags: Alaska, anger, Aqua Buddha, AT&T, Australia, banks, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Boardwalk Empire, Brands, Buddhist, Chris Matthews, consumers, cyberstalking, Dalai Lama, defense, Denny's, digital media, domestic violence, eavesdropping, Election Day, elections, emotion, FP7 Doha, freedoms, Gap, government, iPhone, Jack Conway, John Yarmuth, Keith Olbermann, Kentucky, millennials, MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi, network, nostalgia, Politics, poor, privacy, Prohibition, Rand Paul, Saddam Hussein, Samsung, school, Seth Godin, Sigmund Freud, Social Media, SoMe, taxes, Tea Party, Trends, tweet, Twitter, U.K., U.S. | 11 Comments »
We’ve all known people who seem to be living vicariously through their children. But now there is a whole new generation that has taken that concept one step further: They are living vicariously through technology. Ironically, in doing so they are really living anything but vicariously. This is something I’ve observed, here and there, over [...]
Oct 04, 2010 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology | Tags: Billie Joe Armstrong, Bob Dylan, concert, Facebook, Foo Fighters, Green Day, iPhone, Jacqueline Kennedy, mobile device, parenting, Stone Temple Pilots, Technology, The New York Times, White House | Leave A Comment »
