026 - Marketing in 2019 & Beyond: Social Media and Voice

Year-end episode. Predictions - keeping it simple, two areas of focus:

  1. Social media - tech companies and their manipulation-based business models will change. They’ll evolve in two ways: First, greater transparency that frustrated users will seek. Second, more cohesion with government (as Steve Case posits in The Third Wave).

    Facebook (including Instagram), Twitter, and LinkedIn: the revenue models are based on manipulation through constant feedback loops that surveil users (the product). This is the new fast food. Users will begin to see it as unhealthy like they do cigarettes and Big Macs.

  2. Voice marketing - why smart speakers and voice assistants are like the automobile in 1903 (famous Ford/Horace Rackham quote). Voice is not a fad.

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Also mentioned:

  • 06:40 - Brian Roemmele, The Oracle of Voice re: “computerese” - Brian is spot on. 06:40

  • 08:16 - Mitch Joel (I quote Mitch re: the 1.0 state of smart speakers and how it’s like the internet before the hyperlink - hard to navigate). Spot on again.

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