Traditional Advertising

Twitter As Poster Child for Disruption?

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@philjohnson has written an article for Advertising Age which cites one of my favorite books, The Innovator's Dilemma, and applies its model to Twitter as the disruptive technology. Here's the important part of the article:

"The bright light for agencies is that they can use this time of transition to make their organizations a proof-of-concept for social networks. They should be able to demonstrate how they have developed their own brand on Twitter and other prominent platforms like Flickr, YouTube and SlideShare. That they have created multiple touch-points for sharing content. That they have built a network that connects all their important audiences. And that they are accessible and open to honest conversation with all the people who want to engage."

Now, the not-so-bright light. Do we really think that very large advertising agencies can turn this quickly? I leave that to the Twitterers to decide.

Digital Marketing vs. Traditional Advertising.

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Another post from Jonathan Mendez also cuts to the core of how different the new world really is and echoes the sentiments from our new competitor Zeus Jones. The paradigm shift they both stress is helping consumers do something, as opposed to getting them to do it or telling them they should do it.
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