The document summarizes key trends in content and marketing over the next 5 years. It notes that everything will be connected, intelligent, in real-time and personalized. Interfaces will provide unprecedented access to content through new forms of interaction beyond typing like talking and thinking. There will be an explosion in content but determining what's relevant will be challenging. Storytelling, visual content and automated translation will rise. Traditional advertising of interrupting and manipulating people will decline as privacy and permission become priorities. Data and artificial intelligence will be used to provide helpful, engaging and additive experiences for people rather than just targeting and selling to them. Brands will need to focus on building trust, expertise and participating with people in order to be relevant and get attention
7. Interface evolutions: from type to talk to blink to think
“Search engines won’t wait for you to ask for information.
They will know you like a friend, aware of your concerns and interests at a
detailed level” Ray Kurzweil
18. Because of exponential progress in ‘big data’ technologies, mobile
devices, new interfaces and the rise of artificial intelligence, Information
Superiority is no longer a sustainable advantage for many businesses
25. Nearing the end of the Faustian Bargain: fantastic ‘free’ stuff
paid with attention & personal data (users becoming ‘content’)
Image via Popsci.com
26. The shift from ‘everything for free’ to ‘relevant and valuable’
28. The content industry is finally
shifting away from the paradoxical
‘it’s either free and illegal or very
expensive and hard-to-do’ attitude
“M ANAGED
D ISSATISFACTION ”
29. “Managed Dissatisfaction” is no longer a plausible option
Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO on Arrested Development, House of Cards, and the Future of Netflix: Movies + TV: GQ via Quartz.com
“I call this managed dissatisfaction. The traditional entertainment
ecosystem is built on it, and it’s a totally artificial concept”
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