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How TV Will Finally Become Interactive, At Scale
Google made significant noise when it recently announced Google TV, the search giant's most recent attempt to influence the future of the TV experience. The news itself was overly complex, and Google...
A noteworthy 24.8 million US homes have watched online video on a TV set, most of it put there by Netflix with the help of dozens of different devices. Online video delivered over the top is so...

Most People Are Happy To Wait To Upgrade To 3D TV
At the opening of 2010, the world's largest TV manufacturers came to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) full of heady promises about the future of 3D TV. Despite the success of 3D films at the box...

Four Examples Show How To Experiment In Branded Content Development
Marketers have long relied on advertising and their agencies to help tell the story of their brands. As consumers become immune to traditional advertising and ad clutter and fragmentation limits ad...
Leverage Professional Crowdsourcing Networks To Create New Video Content
The demand for video advertising and content — whether for television, online, or cinema — is outpacing the rate at which marketers can supply it. Specialized crowdsourcing networks are...
Why The Most Solid Thing In Your Product Strategy Is Virtual
All consumer product strategists should sit up and take notice: There's a critical lesson to learn from the most recent changes in the media industry. While most in the business have obsessed over...

How To Reach US Investor Segments
Marketing leaders at financial services firms that serve US investors can benefit from Forrester's investor segmentation. The variables we've chosen are simple, usable, and memorable; the results...
Orchestrate Digital For The Best Brand Experience
Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels — Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other...
Identifying Organizational Priorities For Creating New Digital Media Experiences
The media meltdown continues its slow burn across the media industries. Yet, enlivened by new devices like the iPad and audience enthusiasm for the content that new technologies have generated, many...
Lessons You Should Learn From The Leaders Of The Past Year
The past year has been an unusual one for the consumer tech industry. In an era when the staples of the industry — the TV set and the PC — were relatively mature and incapable of...
Offline And Online Paid Media Placements Will Drive Earned Media Success
Earned media is exploding. Born from traditional public relations (PR), its rapid adoption by marketers is being driven by new opportunities to drive word of mouth through social media. But earned...

Generation Z, the generation born after the Millennials, are true digital natives who have grown up in the age of technology. The only world they know is a digital one — where they can connect...

And Why All Product Strategists Should Care
Netflix has made good on a decade-long promise to become the preeminent digital video distribution company in the US. While some have been surprised by what seems like a sudden rush of success, we...

New TV Advertising Options Point Marketers Toward The Future
After 50 years of the 30-second spot, "innovations" like infomercials, and product placements, the world of TV advertising is about to go through a massive change. The promise of interactive TV is...
Why Control Of Digital Subscriptions Is The New Media Battleground
Contrary to the assertions of popular writers or influential hand-wringers, people still pay for content, spending an average of $81 per month to get their favorite media products. But how they pay...
Marketers Need To Prepare For More Complex TV Buying In The US
Since the birth of TiVo in 1997, set-top-box data has been discussed as a more accurate alternative to Nielsen data for buying commercial slots in linear TV. But advertisers remain comfortable with...