Hello and welcome to your weekly FWD! Now you have recovered from Black Friday, it is time to start looking for the perfect Secret Santa gift…Pinterest is here to help! Their new ultimate personalised gift guide “Pinterest Secret Santa” gives recommendations based on user behaviour.
Getting in to the festive spirit and want to splash out on the freshest tech gifts? Feast your eyes on the Amazon Echo Show, the latest Alexa-enabled device featuring content from media companies such as BBC, MTV and The Telegraph. It is currently retailing at £199!
Or if you are already over the holiday rush, you can get a head start by checking out these e-commerce trends to look out for in 2018!
HEADLINES
- In a bid to hit back at the Google Facebook duopoly, The Guardian, News UK and The Telegraph are pooling their video inventory together into a verified marketplace run by Unruly
- Instagram edges ahead of Snapchat in the battle for audience numbers across Live Stories. Instagram introduces a Request button to allow people to join friends’ live streams and brands can now run branded Stories across Snapchat
- Amazon Echo Show launched last week, retailing at £199, it features brands such as MTV, The Telegraph and Evening Standard
- Financial Times reached its highest readership in 130 years, with over 700k digital subscribers
INSIGHTS
- Find out the big trends in Ecommerce for 2018, according to Forbes
- Econsultancy releases their best digital marketing stats of the week
- Studies from Deloitte and Global Web Index give fresh insights into the Media Habits of Millennials and Generation Z
COOL
- BMW have used Snapchat’s new AR lens which lets customers explore models before they buy
- Pinterest has a new ‘Secret Santa’ tool which gives gift recommendations based on user behaviour
- Grime stars, artists and bloggers join Sadiq Khan to tackle knife crime in London
DEEP READS
- A look at how Trump’s plans to repeal net neutrality could affect the internet
- Find how the Gaming industry has changed in 2017, with these top 10 trends
- 85% of businesses in the UK plan to invest in disruptive technology such as Artificial Intelligence by 2020
Please share anything of interest using #OMDFWD
Hello and welcome to your weekly FWD! Now you have recovered from Black Friday, it is time to start looking for the perfect Secret Santa gift…Pinterest is here to help! Their new ultimate personalised gift guide “Pinterest Secret Santa” gives recommendations based on user behaviour.
Getting in to the festive spirit and want to splash out on the freshest tech gifts? Feast your eyes on the Amazon Echo Show, the latest Alexa-enabled device featuring content from media companies such as BBC, MTV and The Telegraph. It is currently retailing at £199!
Or if you are already over the holiday rush, you can get a head start by checking out these e-commerce trends to look out for in 2018!
HEADLINES
- In a bid to hit back at the Google Facebook duopoly, The Guardian, News UK and The Telegraph are pooling their video inventory together into a verified marketplace run by Unruly
- Instagram edges ahead of Snapchat in the battle for audience numbers across Live Stories. Instagram introduces a Request button to allow people to join friends’ live streams and brands can now run branded Stories across Snapchat
- Amazon Echo Show launched last week, retailing at £199, it features brands such as MTV, The Telegraph and Evening Standard
- Financial Times reached its highest readership in 130 years, with over 700k digital subscribers
INSIGHTS
- Find out the big trends in Ecommerce for 2018, according to Forbes
- Econsultancy releases their best digital marketing stats of the week
- Studies from Deloitte and Global Web Index give fresh insights into the Media Habits of Millennials and Generation Z
COOL
- BMW have used Snapchat’s new AR lens which lets customers explore models before they buy
- Pinterest has a new ‘Secret Santa’ tool which gives gift recommendations based on user behaviour
- Grime stars, artists and bloggers join Sadiq Khan to tackle knife crime in London
DEEP READS
- A look at how Trump’s plans to repeal net neutrality could affect the internet
- Find how the Gaming industry has changed in 2017, with these top 10 trends
- 85% of businesses in the UK plan to invest in disruptive technology such as Artificial Intelligence by 2020
Please share anything of interest using #OMDFWD
Interbrand has just launched its 17th annual Best Global Brands. As it has been a pivotal year for luxury brands, we feature the expert view from Rebecca Robins, Global Director at Interbrand and co-author of the FT acclaimed book Meta-luxury. Rebecca’s luxury report, featured in Harper’s Bazaar, looks at the ongoing change within the industry. We share an extract of her luxury review here:
“Over the past 15 years of the Best Global Brands list, the brand value amassed by luxury businesses has grown from USD $25.8 billion in 2000 to USD $143.7 billion in 2015.For well over a decade, luxury brands have been ascendant. They were hailed as haloed protectorates of double-digit growth. They reinvented relevance, as per Burberry, the first British luxury brand to become a Best Global Brand in 2006. And, when the economic crisis hit, luxury brands were the most resilient in weathering the storm.
However, 2016 is the year that marks the luxury reset – a reset first signalled by recent dips in brand values that is now showing up via a cascade of marked declines. And yet, against the slow landslide in value, certain brands have quietly been asserting sustainable growth.
So, what are these brands doing differently?
- They make decisions around extension and expansion, based on the long-term protection of the brand and health of the business. This is in sharp contrast to many brands that have fallen foul by chasing the immediate gratification of fast profits at the expense of sustainable growth initiatives, leading to brand dilution and value erosion in the long term.
- Sustainable growth has deeper resonance in the wider context of sustainability. We are in a constant reevaluation of what we value and why. The sweet spot is where integrity of product meets integrity of brand experience.
- Luxury brands have always set the standard. The challenge now is to translate their stories of excellence within a knowledge and experience economy that craves experience as much as the product itself. And that raises challenging questions about the role of every micro and macro brand touchpoint. It also has radical implications for the role of flagship retail, of the runway to retail model, of managing rarity, and of levels of access and service.
As luxury businesses continue to work through the reset and evolve their growth strategies, a single quest remains constant. Everything begins and ends with driving brand value.”
Want to know more? Read Rebecca Robins’ full article at Harper’s Bazaar or contact us at [email protected].