Julie A. Ask

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy PROFESSIONALS

Julie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Julie's 25 years of work experience is balanced between the engineering and management consulting work she did in the first half of her career and her work as an analyst for the past 12 years. The combination of technical and business expertise positions prepared her well to work with business leaders to identify new opportunities offered by mobile technology and to develop strategies to engage with consumers on mobile devices. She has worked with hundreds of clients across retail, travel, banking, insurance, CPG, healthcare, retail, and more to advise and guide the development of their mobile strategies.

Julie's research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, RCR Wireless, and The Onion and on CBS, NBC, and PBS.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to becoming an analyst, Julie worked at a contextual services mobile startup in San Francisco and prior to that at Booz Allen & Hamilton.


Education

Julie holds a B.S.E.E. and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

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    Report:Which Device Offers The Best Music Experience?

    From set-top boxes to cell phones, device makers are falling over themselves to offer music functionality. Digital music services have also evolved to "anytime, anywhere" access with rich discovery...

    • Downloads: 432
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2011, US

    North American Consumer Technographics®

    This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...

    • Downloads: 1704
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Put Video At The Heart Of Your Content Strategy

    An Empowered Report: Content Is A Product, Too

    Disruptive consumer behavior is profoundly affecting your ability to engage consumers through traditional media and marketing channels. Empowered product strategists within your organization must be...

    • Downloads: 843
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    Report:US Tablet Buyers Are Multi-PC Consumers

    Product Strategists Must Position PCs And Peripherals Within A Multidevice Lifestyle

    The success of the Apple iPad has created a halo around tablets in general: Consumers are interested in these devices, even if they're confused about what they actually are. US online consumers who...

    • Downloads: 973
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Gambling: Bet On Mobile Products And Services

    After so many years of unmet expectations, gambling is finally going mobile. Although it's not yet the promised El Dorado, and despite the fact that competition is likely to be fiercer in a complex...

    • Downloads: 561
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Consumers Want Online Advertising To Be Relevant, Respectful, And Rewarding

    Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, September 2012

    In the age of the always addressable customer, where hyperconnected consumers are increasingly savvy and demanding of the brands with which they interact, marketers must become more audience-centric...

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Consumers Need Cloud-Based Products Now

    Successful Multidevice Strategies Will Use The Cloud, Sync, And Apps In Europe

    Consumers no longer use one digital device. The era of one PC per household is giving way to a world of several smart mobile devices per person. For content, services, and software to run across...

    • Downloads: 1168
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How News Web Sites Should Use Video

    Using The Online Video Product Scorecard To Identify Best Practice

    Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for building video products and adding video to your Web site. This report demonstrates how...

    • Downloads: 346
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Updated Q1 2012: Use Social Media To Boost Your TV Audience

    Social media is changing the way audiences engage with TV. Led by Generation X and Generation Y, audiences are increasingly multitasking on digital devices while watching TV — and sharing what...

    • Downloads: 511
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

    • Downloads: 37
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Fight Social Media Stagnation

    Build Trust And Advocacy With Targeted Content And Engagement Strategies

    It was easy to grow a brand's social media marketing program over the past few years; a flood of new consumers entering social networks and other social venues provided a burgeoning audience. But as...

    • Downloads: 767
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How Consumers Find Websites In 2011

    And Why Multitouchpoint Campaigns Will Drive Value, Not Just Traffic

    As in years past, natural search results, links, and personal emails are the most cited resources for finding websites. But take note: Social media — in particular social networks —...

    • Downloads: 831
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Young Hispanics Lead In Mobile Activity But Don't Trust Mobile Ads Very Much

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    This Data Essentials report highlights the extent to which young Hispanic consumers are outpacing non-Hispanics in their use of mobile phones. Forrester's North American Technographics® Youth...

    • Downloads: 139
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:European Email Affinity Declines

    Today, consumers in Europe pay less attention to promotional emails, delete emails without reading them, find emails less relevant, and wonder how marketers got their email data. Smart marketers...

    • Downloads: 147
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Adapting To Media Fragmentation In Europe

    The Impact Of Media Fragmentation Patterns On Communication Strategy

    Consumers across Europe are embracing new media platforms that change the way they consume content. This year's European Technographics® data shows a continuous growth in the amount of time...

    • Downloads: 379
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:An Overview Of Online Consumers In Argentina

    Latin American Consumer Technographics®

    Latin America is on the priority list of many global companies. This is not surprising given the meteoric rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter and Latin Americans' willingness to connect...

    • Downloads: 36
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Privacy Matters For Online Advertisers

    Behavioral Marketers Should Prepare To Self-Regulate Data Practices

    Concern over consumer privacy has marketers, associations, government officials, and even technology vendors hustling to find ways to manage online data so that it is comfortable to consumers and...

    • Downloads: 458
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Understanding The Intricate Digital Behaviors Of Young Consumers

    An Empowered Report: How To Reach Young Consumers

    Young consumers are now connected to media almost at all times — which would rationally lead you to think that the more places they are connected, the more ways there are (and the easier it is)...

    • Downloads: 1127
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, Europe

    European Consumer Technographics®

    This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's European Technographics Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012. It provides an overview of European consumers' Internet and consumer technology behaviors....

    • Downloads: 39
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers

    Move From On/Off Compliance Approaches To Custom Privacy Management

    Governments are placing pressure on interactive marketers, in most cases by mandating clear rules around how customer data is obtained, used, and stored for marketing. While interactive marketers...

    • Downloads: 326
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Start To Play With Social Gamers

    Social Gaming Provides A Ripe Marketing Opportunity

    Eighty-four percent of US interactive marketers have no plans to use games in their 2011 marketing strategies, making social gaming a large, untapped opportunity for marketers. Marketers should start...

    • Downloads: 826
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of The US Online Consumer, 2010

    An Empowered Report: How Online And Mobile Behaviors Are Changing

    For the first time ever, the average US online consumer reports spending as much time online as he or she does watching TV offline. Trending data from 2007 shows that while consumers are continuing...

    • Downloads: 2377
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:US Marketers: Stay Ahead Of 2D Bar Code Adoption

    Start Piloting Now To Be Prepared To Benefit From Growing Consumer Use

    The 2D bar code is a promising mobile marketing tactic: It provides marketers a quick way to bridge the offline-online gap and enhance consumer engagement with their target audience anytime, anywhere...

    • Downloads: 341
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Technographics® Survey Highlights: Profiling US Hispanic Digital Cable Subscribers

    This highlight deck profiles the US Hispanic digital cable subscriber from Forrester's Hispanic Technographics Consumer Technology Phone Survey, Q4 2009 (US).

    • Downloads: 2
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Power Your Brand Ecosystem With Social Media

    Vision: The Social Marketing Playbook

    You already know your audience uses social media; one minute they're planning vacations on Twitter and the next they're toppling governments with the help of Facebook. And because your customers use...

    • Downloads: 1012
    • Comments: 2
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