Techtelligence

An image is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes. But with the meteoric rise of image-first social giant Snapchat, ‘350m snaps shared daily are worth $22.2bn’ is arguably the modern replacement of this classic English idiom.

Fake news has dominated political coverage in the days following Trump’s unlikely election to president of the United States. While the media has only recently started obsessing with fake news, the concept isn’t necessarily a new one.

A Pinterest search for “anti-Valentine’s Day” generates thousands of results. There are hundreds of similarly-minded events happening all over the country, each expressing approximately the same sentiments: we are lonely, love is hard.

The sky is the limit. A concept enthusing many of us to reach for the stars and embrace innovative thinking.

To promote its show Wrench Against the Machine, Esquire Network released a 90-second video of one of the show’s stars riding his motorcycle around town–recorded with Snapchat Spectacles.

Love may be a mystery, but Valentine’s Day trends from Waze make this romantic holiday more predictable for brands seeking to influence the purchasing decisions of lovestruck Americans.

Voice search is about to move from a whisper to a shout, quickly. The fact that Google Home and Amazon Echo both had a starring roles in this year’s Super Bowl is only the latest of evidence of this fact. 

CES is like re-entering the world’s atmosphere. It’s really the perfect analogy to describe the warp-speed gear shift required to take myself from the serenity of the holiday break straight into the frenetic, high energy, brightly-lit pace of CES in Las Vegas.

January always brings the hopes, resolutions and commitments of a New Year.  And CES represents that for many in the marketing and business world.  Every year, 170,000 people and 3800 exhibitors from our world converge in Sin City, Las Vegas, to gorge at the four day, all-you-can-eat business, marketing and technology buffet.