Monday, June 18, 2018

The Full Monty: Trickster – June 18, 2018


When brands try to get cute, the impact is questionable; we need more humanities graduates to lead A.I. efforts; the viral Olive Garden chatbot misfire; the autonomous talent wars and mobile payment wars; testing your strategy; unmasking fraudulent influencers; inside the binge factory that is Netflix; how to address the gap between podcast awareness and listening level; what consumers do to keep personal data personal; your PR metrics dashboard; Leonardo was ahead of his time; a discount to a Digital Summit; plus the podcast of the week and more in the Trickster edition of The Full Monty from Brain+Trust Partners for the week of June 18, 2018.



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Retail Apocalypse
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Top Story

If you were online last week, odds are you got caught up in the hoopla around IHOP's announcement. For weeks they hyped an announcement on June 11 that would reveal what was behind their supposed name change to IHOb. People speculated what it might be: bacon? breakfast? bitcoin? But it seemed rather transparent in all: that IHOP was pulling some major stunt.

When last Monday arrived, the announcement was both underwhelming and overpowering: that the 'b' in IHOb stood for burgers. Underwhelming in that it's an item that has been on their menu for 50 years. And overpowering in that it dominated discussion online and in the news.

But really, does anyone think that IHOP is actually ditching its name and its namesake products?

Evidently, the restaurant has been experiencing a slump in sales in the last few years, so it needed something to boost the numbers. Their CMO said that they needed something disruptive to shake things up a bit. So they pulled a stunt. A trick.

Let's be clear: this is in no way a rebranding. Nor is this a campaign. This is a PR or marketing stunt. The question is how will its success be measured? Because right now, the creatives seem to be high-fiving about the success. If the company's goal was awareness, then it's an unbridled success. But what about consideration? Or sales?

We'll put the question to you: when a brand gets cute like this (or like the snarky retorts from the likes of Wendy's and others), does that change your likelihood of patronizing their establishments?

We'd say the jury is out on the success of the IHOP stunt with respect to rescuing flagging sales.




Artificial Intelligence / Autonomous

The latest in AI, machine learning, bots, and blockchain, mobility, and autonomous everything.

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Communications / Marketing / Business Strategy

Industry developments and trends, including advertising & marketing, journalism, customer experience, content, and influencer relations.

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Retail Apocalypse

Humans are a transactional species, and the practice — if not the very notion of what retail is  is undergoing a historical metamorphosis. 

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Platforms 

News to know about relevant social, virtual, and augmented reality platforms that may affect your business.

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Fᴀᴄᴇʙᴏᴏᴋ / Iɴsᴛᴀɢʀᴀᴍ / WʜᴀᴛsAᴘᴘ

  • Facebook's marketing is changing. How marketers can be prepared as Facebook focuses more on content that sparks conversations and brings people closer together.

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  • Snap announced the release of Snap Kit, its developer platform. With the opening of the Snapchat API, it lets other apps piggyback on Snap’s login for sign up, build Bitmoji avatars into their keyboards, display public Our Stories and Snap Map content, and generate branded stickers with referral links users can share back inside Snapchat.
  • By the end of this month, advertisers will be able to purchase most of Snapchat’s ad formats programmatically with the platform rolling out a tool for all advertisers dubbed ‘reach and frequency’ that lets brands purchase its popular AR lenses in a more automated, targeted way.



Media

The latest in the world of streaming video, audio, and the advertising, pricing and bundling models related to them.

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Privacy / Security / Regulatory

Business disruptions in the legal, regulatory, and computer security fields, from hacking to the on-demand economy and more.

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    Rᴇɢᴜʟᴀᴛᴏʀʏ / Oɴ-Dᴇᴍᴀɴᴅ Eᴄᴏɴᴏᴍʏ



    Measurement / Analytics / Data

    The future is not in plastics, but in data. Those who know how to measure and analyze it will rule the world.


    Mental Nourishment

    Other links to help you reflect, improve, or simply learn something new.
     


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