Last week Ogilvy launched their new thought leadership program called the Red Paper series. I was fortunate enough to be able to write the very first one – Learning to read the river. The paper describes how all the data that is generated today provides a huge opportunity for companies to grow their business. It [...]
The latest video on thedoublethinkTV is an interview with Dominique Hanssens, Dominique Hanssens is the Bud Knapp Professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, where he has been on the faculty since 1977. He has served as the school’s faculty chair, associate dean, and marketing area chair. From July 2005 to [...]
A friend just sent me this beautiful visualization of where people are taking pictures in London. You can clearly see the high traffic areas around the tourist hotspots. It’s a great use of the type of data people are generating by going about their everyday lives. It also shows how this data could become really [...]
What is the actual value of a story? Are people prepared to pay more for something if there is a story attached to it? It turns out that they are. That is the outcome of a very original experiment by writer / NYT columnist Rob Walker. I saw Rob speak about his Significant Objects project, a [...]
I met a slightly creepy yet really interesting company yesterday. Voiceprism has a technology that analyzes sound waves generated by the human voice. This gives them the ability to listen to an individual for 10 minutes, establish a baseline voice pattern and then detect the deviations from the normal frequencies. These deviations have proven to be [...]