Target sighted
Maybe it’s because Target have been an innovative retailer for several years now, presenting a really attractive brand despite offering low, low prices. Maybe it’s because this idea is such a great...
View ArticleOn the contemporary art market – Expertise, Marketing and Money
“If all signs are autonomous and refer only to one another, it must seem to follow that no image is truer or deeper than the next, and that the artist is absolved from his or her struggle for...
View ArticleBeyond the Linear – New ways of entertaining
The days of P.T. Barnum, and the sense of spectacle an audience received from seeing a live performance have long passed; codified, commodotised, sanitised and made instantly available. Or have they?...
View ArticleMaking Retail Truly Emotional
A great ad featured during a commercial break in the Academy Awards broadcast tonight on ABC. There’s no shortage of data out there pointing to the decimation of the retail sector, and we have written...
View ArticleUp in smoke: Trends in buying movies and content ownership
Like the main protagonist in The Artist, film audiences are increasingly falling out of love with physical film. A recent IHS Screen Digest webinar presented some interesting notes on home...
View ArticleThe New News – Monetising journalism today
“What the Internet has done is made a million sources of information available. It’s only a click away… The Internet has disrupted many industries. The newspaper business has been destroyed. It’s...
View ArticleOn past and future innovation – Disruption, inequality and robots
How to define innovation, how has it been studied in the recent past, and what does future innovation hold for the human race? Sometimes the word innovation gets misused. Like when people use the word...
View ArticleMedia Trends 2016
The most enjoyable pieces we pen for this blog are our looks ahead to TMT trends in the next year (they also, coincidentally, happen to be our most popular articles). Do check out our 2015 and 2014...
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