Archive for June, 2009

Martin, Sarah, Julian and Cornelia are cruising from on Ikea to the next all throughout Germany as part of an Ikea Midsommar Tour, in order to find the best Midsommar bargains in Germany.

The whole journey is being documented in many (partially live) video shows, blogs of each of the four and a Google map where [...]

While everyone in the world is (rightly so) concerned about the election and the questionable democracy in Iran, we have to acknowledge the fact that German politics is just about to make a small step towards censorship as well. It’s not as big a news as Iran, but it does concern quite a few people [...]

Samsung is on a roll with their viral videos. Here is another one that is fascinating to watch. It is based on the “unboxing” meme that many adopted on youtube:

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14:00 audience session: context by Stefan Erschwendner
Some interesting questions arise after the kick off presentation: 

Should agencies rather focus on context of the target audience? Will context drive marketing (communicationss) in the future?
Which type of agency will be best suited for this in the future? PR or ad agencies?
What happens when companies piggyback contexts without honestly solving [...]

11:05 second day just started, with some delay, as Roland points out explicitly
First panel: 
Trend Cocooning
Wie verändert die Krise das Verbraucherverhalten?
With Prof. Peter Wippermann and Roland Kühl v. Puttkammer (Organisator der remix09)

First, Roland explains the trend cocooning. Prof. Wippermann expands on it. The trend was orifinally coined by Faith Popcorn, before the internet existed [...]

17:33h – Ok, I skipped a session: quantitative vs qualitative viral marketing by viral seeding company elbkind. Very interesting session with a goood discussion about reach of campaigns in generell (i.e. millions of views) vs reach within a certain target group (wich might result in viewer, but qualitatively lesser views).
Now I am sitting in this [...]

14:00h – the first afternoon session started with:
XING und die Klassiker
wahlfreie Informationen und Networking statt einfach nur Werbung
Oliver Nickels of IBM starts the session explaining how IBM uses WoM and direct networking to sell their solutions to the German Mittelstand, because it works better than pure advertising.

Networking is extremely important in German Mittelstand – when [...]

10:55 at the Museum for Hamburgische Geschichte, and the show will start any minute.
The speakers of the first panel are already sitting on stage. First topic: 
Share Economy, Collaborative Marketing, Radical Individualism 
Markenführung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Klassik und Online, Stabilität und Individualisierung, Kontrolle und Partizipation
The first panel is with Bernd M. Michael, Gregor Stemmle and Dr. Stefan Tweraser, [...]

Tomorrow is the first remix conference: classic meets online (advertising). To recap what it will be all about:
Fachleute aus dem klassischen Marketing-Umfeld treffen die Aktiven des Web 2.0 für einen professionellen und persönlichen interdisziplinären Austausch.
Feste Konferenzelemente treffen auf die adhoc-Strukturen von BarCamp und Open Space – Beim remix09 mischen sich Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer, Vorstände, Freelancer [...]

The year the media died… This video is great. almost 10 minutes long, like the original song by Don Mclean, and in bits seemingly redundant, but fun to watch and listen to nevertheless – well done!

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