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A Breakthrough In Measuring Cool | Forbes

A Breakthrough In Measuring Cool | Forbes | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

How "cool" is your brand? Marketers may soon get the answers...

 

A Breakthrough In Measuring Cool Business leaders can now determine whether their brands are perceived as cool and how much emotional heat they have as a measure of future business success. Results from a recent study in the beer and spirits categories are described below to illustrate the new insights available from measuring cool.

 

Today there is too much noise, too much clutter and too many choices for customers to navigate in virtually every category. When a brand evokes the characteristics of cool, it stands out and drives consumption. For brand owners and innovators it has been increasingly difficult to differentiate on functional features and benefits to get ahead of competitive brands and private label.

 

The accumulated research on quantifying cool by Buyology has demonstrated:

- Cool is a key driver of brand favorability across a wide spectrum of product and service categories

- Cool is relevant and important to all age groups, although what is considered to be cool may vary by age.

- Cool brands have different characteristic patterns

- Cool is more reliably measured through non-conscious methods, where perception and intuition operate in our thinking...

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Valuable research for marketers...

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Get Ready To Lose Your Job | TechCrunch

Get Ready To Lose Your Job | TechCrunch | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

"Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase," observes Angel of the Year and new Andreessen Horowitz GP Chris Dixon, who says that the turning point between those phases for the Age of Information is…now.

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Disruption continues to affect every sector directly or indirectly...

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Clay Christensen: First media gets disrupted, then the education industry | GigaOm

Clay Christensen: First media gets disrupted, then the education industry | GigaOm | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

Clay Christensen literally wrote the book on disruption, so it’s worth paying attention to him when he talks about where the disruption fueled by the web is going to strike next. The Harvard business professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma spoke to Jeff Howe — the Wired writer who coined the term “crowdsourcing” — and had some interesting things to say about where disruption is occurring now and where it is likely to strike next.

 

At one point, Howe asks Christensen to name some industries that are “either in a state of disruptive crisis or will be soon,” and the professor says:

“Journalism, certainly, and publishing broadly. Anything supported by advertising. That all of this is being disrupted is now beyond question. And then I think higher education is just on the edge of the crevasse. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don’t feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. But I think even five years from now these enterprises are going to be in real trouble.”...

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This is a fascinating look at the disruption coming for education, now that media, journalism, marketing, advertising and PR have been disrupted. Recommended reading! 

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Advertisers Should Act More Like Newsrooms | Harvard Business Review

Advertisers Should Act More Like Newsrooms | Harvard Business Review | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

The rise of spontaneous social ads means the end of the ad campaign as we know it. fascinating thing happened at the Super Bowl this year. Typically, Super Bowl advertisers meticulously plan every aspect of their presence months in advance of the big game.

 

But this time, Coca-Cola, Audi, and Oreo didn't just limit themselves to pre-packaged creative — they also had in place rapid response teams that adapted to events as they happened. So when the rest of America was reacting to the power outage in the stadium, the brands were, too — appropriately and in their own brand voice.

 

Recently, the Wharton Future of Advertising Program asked more than 175 industry leaders to describe their vision of what advertising would be like in the year 2020. Based on our analysis of the responses to the 2020 Project, the Super Bowl case isn't just a once-a-year stunt — it's a preview of a model that will scale and become a foundational characteristic of major brand advertising. The industry experts had a varied take, but a remarkably consistent theme emerged: the rigid campaign-based model of advertising, perfected over decades of one-way mass media, is headed for extinction....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

This is valuable reading for PR, marketing and advertising people. It offers great insight into the disruption to business that is underway and caused by social media

Leonie vander Westhuizen's curator insight, February 17, 1:22 AM

I like the example of Audi, Coca Cola and Oreo that shows how advertising differs. In teaching PR it is important for students to know that the way you as PRO work is challenging

Casey Strachan's curator insight, February 17, 1:59 PM

In case you are still thinking otherwise, the rigid campaign-based model of advertising, in one-way mass media, is headed for extinction....

Jeff Domansky's comment, February 17, 3:27 PM
Appreciate the comments Leonie and Casey. Agree it is critical to stay ahead of this disruption!